Adaptación española de la Escala de Aceptación Percibida (PAS) en estudiantes universitarios

Spanish adaptation of the Perceived Acceptance Scale (PAS) in university students. The main objective
of the present study was to adapt the Perceived Acceptance Scale (PAS), developed by Brock, Sarason,
Sanghvi and Gurung to evaluate the cognitive component of perceived social support, to the Spanish
language. In a sample of 855 university students registered for the fi rst time in different degree courses,
the reliability, dimensionality and external validity of the scale scores were analyzed. The results
show adequate internal consistency in both the subscales (friends, family, father and mother) and
in the overall scale. The factorial structure, derived from a confi rmatory factorial analysis, fi tted the
theoretical model proposed by the authors of the scale. The scale scores showed evidence of convergent
and discriminant validity from the observed relationships with the measures of perceived social
support. The psychometric properties of the adapted scale provide an adequate measuring instrument
for evaluating perceived acceptance in Spanish university students.