Eventos de vida constituem um construto? Evidências da impossibilidade de considerar eventos de vida um construto

Life events (LE) refer to vital experiences, physical or psychological, that may represent discrete or signifi cant changes in people’s lives. The present study aimed to discuss the evaluation of LE; create a scale 1 Endereco para correspondencia: Laboratorio de Mensuracao, Instituto de Psicologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rua Ramiro Barcelos, 2.600, Sala 101, Santa Cecilia, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil 90035-003. E-mail: carwpsi@hotmail.com, jeannatividade@gmail.com e claudio.hutz@terra.com.br Woyciekoski, C., Natividade, J. C., Hutz, C. S. 14 for measuring perceived (subjective evaluation) LE as well as obtain construct validation. Further it was investigated whether LE are gathered in dimensions according to categories described in the literature. The participants were 619 university students of both sexes. Factor analyzes were conducted, but factors were not extracted, demonstrating that LE do not constitute a construct. It was verifi ed the presence of trends regarding the positive and negative evaluation of LE. The results point to the importance of considering the subjective evaluation as well as the occurrence of events in LE evaluation.