Psychometric Properties of the Inventory of Reasons for Migration in Retirement

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Silvana Correia
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: França, Lucia Helena de Freitas Pinho, Pereira, Michelle Morelo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Kairós (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/kairos/article/view/41055
• topic: Migration processes; Reasons; Retired; Construction of instrument.; Procesos de migración; Razones; Retirado; Construcción de instrumento.; Processos de migração; Motivos; Aposentados; Construção de instrumento.

Migration processes can be defined as a phenomenon composed of population currents that move from one area to another. The objective of this study was to gather evidence of validity for the Inventory of Reasons for Migration in retirement. In order to do so, 12 items were elaborated to evaluate the reasons that lead retirees to migrate. The inventory was applied to a sample of 284 retirees, living in the Região dos Lagos, in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, and the majority being female (51.4%). The results of the confirmatory factor analysis, indicated that the instrument has three dimensions: Environment, Leisure and Safety (α = 0.82), Social Support (α = 0.72) and Mobility and Services (α = 0.56). In addition, correlations of these reasons with other variables were verified: affective / conjugal relationship and prior knowledge of the place, and the positive and significant correlations of weak to moderate were identified with the Migration Reasons Inventory. This study provides the researchers a tool to measure the reasons for migration to the national context, municipal administration and academic area.