Adaptation and validation of the Revised Test for Need for Cognitive Closure to the Argentinian context

Introduction: Need for cognitive closure (NFCC) concerns people's motivations for seeking and maintaining a definitive answer to a given problem as against confusion, ambiguity, and/or uncertainty (Webster & Kruglanski, 1994). To assess individual differences in need for cognitive closure Webster and Kruglanski (1994) developed a need for cognitive closure scale (NFCS), whose original formulation presented a unidimensional factor structure. A two factors structure (i.e., urgency tendency [seizing] and permanency tendency [freezing]) was later found by other authors (Pierro & Kruglanski, 2005) and developed into the Revised Test for Need for Cognitive Closure (RT-NFCC). Methods: The main objective of the present work was to adapt and validate a measure of the need for cognitive closure scale (Webster & Kruglanski, 1994) to the Argentinian context. We adapted the RT-NFCC to the Argentinian context, using a non-probabilistic, intentional sample of university students from University of Buenos Aires (N = 713; Women 78.8 %; Mage = 27.43). Results: The results indicated a very good fit of the data to the two-factorial model. The level of reliability of the two factors was proven adequate (Urgency: alpha = .83; Permanency: alpha = .72). Discussion: The adaptation demonstrates psychometric performance with a high degree of accuracy for evaluation in the Argentine context.