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Lilian Fátima Vidal González, Sofía Rivera Aragón, Rolando Diaz Loving, Ignacio Méndez Ramírez
Con el propósito de evaluar la percepción global de los factores que determi - nan la decisión de permanecer con una pareja, se elaboró una escala siguiendo dos etapas, una exploratoria en la que se aplicó una pregunta abierta a 199 personas, y la segunda en la que se elaboró y aplicó el instrumento a 526 participantes. Se calcularon la consistencia interna y la discriminación de los reactivos y se realizó un análisis factorial con rotación ortogonal. Se obtuvieron 48 preguntas distribuidas en siete factores (barreras, complementariedad, atracción física y sexual, intimidad, abnegación, dependencia e inversiones) que explicaron el 57.84% de la varianza total, y un Alfa de Cronbach global de .913. Los hallazgos se discuten en función de la variabilidad de áreas en las que se enmarca la permanencia, desde la perspectiva negativa hasta la positiva. Esto indica cierta ambivalencia ya que hay relaciones que subsisten por amor y otras por las limitaciones que la cultura impone.
In order to assess which aspects determine if a couple stays together or not, a pair of studies were designed, the first one was an exploratory study where 199 par - ticipants answered an open ended question about the reasons for staying together.
In a second one, based on the answers to the first study, an objective instrument was designed and administered to a sample of 526 people. Solid and statistically significant internal consistency and item discrimination was obtained. After that, an orthogonal rotation factor analysis yielded 7 conceptually clear and statistically sound factors out of the 48 items, organized into barriers, complementary, physical and sexual attraction, intimacy, abnegation, dependence and investments dimen - sions. These factors explained 57.84% of the total variance and have a Cronbach’s alpha of .913. The results are discussed according to the positive and negatives areas that were obtained as well as the effects of culture and the ambivalence that exists among the reasons for maintaining a couple relationship.
