TERMO DE CONSENTIMENTO LIVRE E ESCLARECIDO

This research aimed to create a self-report scale in order to assess the cognitive planning in adults, and raise initial evidences of its validity. The construct in question was considered a subdomain of the Executive Functions and it was understood as the ability to define and structure actions and resources intentionally with the purpose to achieve an objective efficiently. Scale development process was performed in seven steps, which are: constitutive definition of planning and selection of components via theoretical review; interview with the target population; itens/instrument construction; judges analysis; semantical analisys; Cognitive Planning Scale (CPS) and CPS’s psychometric analysis. Pilot version was made by 88 itens answered in a Likert scale, according to frequency criterion. CPS was answered by 279 participants of both sexes, with several scolarity and socioeconomic levels, residents in different Brazilian states, with ages ranging from 18 to 58. Data collection was primarily applied through electronic way, via link: https://www.surveymonkey. com/s/3286TZQ. Psychometrics analysis data proved to be satisfactory. Based on itens analisys (item-total correlation) five itens were eliminated, providing a CPS final version formed by 83 items. Exploratory Factor Analisys indicated a solution of one factor, characterizing CPS with a unidemensional structure. Items’ factor loadings were adequate, what indicates that items are excellent representatives of cognitive planning behavior, particularly 41 itens showed loadings from 0.60 to 0.79. CPS obtained a high precision level of 0.98. The favourable results found in the CPS pilot version encourage us to move forward on its developmental process. It is intended to make new validation and standardization studies in a representative sample from population. Abstract: Cognitive planning is indispensable for an effective management of daily activities, and disfunctions on this ability result in impairments, what brings impact to the personal functioning. Therefore, studies that provide a deeper knowledge to this mental process assume important position on the neuropsychological clinical and research context. The present study employed a statistical program and the litterature revision in order to establish a comparison between the comunity representers’ comprehension about planning and the definitions provided by experts on the field. 103 individuals participated on this study, adults of both sexes, from different educational and socioeconomic levels. The survey was performed through a questionnaire, applied individually. Results show that community’s understanding about the concept of planning is aligned to the specialist’s conceiving on this area. This provides a rich source of collected material for the formulation and composition of itens for instruments designed to evaluate the planning process. Abstract This research aimed to construct a self-report scale in order to assess the cognitive planning in adults, and raise initial evidences of its validity. Planning was considered a sub domain of the Executive Functions and it was understood as the ability to define and structure actions and resources intentionally with the purpose of achieve an objective efficiently. The steps of scale development process were those recommended on literature. 279 people of both sexes took part on the study, with different educational and socioeconomic levels, living in several Brazilian states, with ages varying from 18 to 58 years. Data collection was performed mainly electronically. Results indicate that Cognitive Planning Scale (CPS) holds quite satisfactory psychometric properties.