Consistencia longitudinal de la reflexividad-impulsividad por el Matching Familiar figures test-20(MFFT-20)

Resum

The cognitive style reflexivity-impulsivity has been evaluated in two occasions throughout a two year-old interval, using the Spanish adaptation (Buela-Casal, Carretero-Dios, De los Santos-Roig, and Bermúdez, 2001a) of Matching Familiar Figures Test-0 (Cairns and Cammock, 1978). The objectives of the present study were to analyze the longitudinal consistency of the MFFT-20 error and latency scores, through the standard normalized scores for both variables, as well as the consistency of the normalized scores of impulsivity of the Spanish adaptation of this test. The sample included 251 participants, aged between 6 to 9 years (at the beginning of the study). The longitudinal consistency of the MFFT-20 error and latency scores has been proved. Thus MFFT-20 error scores were more consistent over the time than the MFFT-20 latency scores for both girls and boys. At the same time, the Spanish adaptation of the MFFT-20 has shown high values of longitudinal consistency for its normalized data of impulsivity. The cognitive reflexivity-impulsivity style has been corroborated shoming in both evaluations: negative correlations between latency-errors, a gradual decrease of the errors and increase in the latencies at greater ages, and high levels of internal consistency as for the errors and as for the latencies.