The Perception of God by Puerto Rican Children: The Creation of SEPGC (Scale to Evaluate the Perception of God in Children)

摘要

This is a pioneer research whose main goal is to develop a scale that could assess Puerto Rican Christian children’s attitudes about God. One hundred children from both genders between the ages of 8-12 years old from a private protestant academy in the north zone of Puerto Rico were selected by availability with their parent’s consents after IRB review provide permission to perform the investigation. All youths were administered the Scale to Evaluate the Perception of God in children (SEPGC). A factor analysis and rbis demonstrated a valid scale with 3 main factors which explained 67% of the total variance. In addition, the SEPG has a reliability index (Cronbach Alpha) of 0.91, a very strong index according to Kline (2005). The results demonstrate that the SEPG could be used to understand how children have conceptualized God in a deep and emotional way.