Adaptation and Validation of the Temple Presence Inventory in a Portuguese Population

ABSTRACT

The present study aims to translate and validate the Temple Presence Inventory (TPI) for the Portuguese context, respecting the maintenance of an equivalent semantics as well as the validity of its contents and concepts. This study also aims to verify the psychometric properties of the instrument (factor validity and internal consistency). The sample consisted of 455 individuals (male = 271, female = 184). The fidelity of the factors varied between 0.5 and 0.84. The confirmatory factor analysis produced a theoretical model with 38 items distributed among eight factors. The covariance between some residual errors of instrument items was considered, and the following fit indices were observed: χ2/df = 2.073; GFI = 0.858; CFI = 0.887; RSMEA = 0.049; AIC = 1527. The results confirm the appropriateness of the version adapted to the Portuguese language of the TPI and that it can be used in research projects aiming to evaluate Presence in the Portuguese-speaking population (Europe).

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Project "TEC4Growth - Pervasive Intelligence, Enhancers and Proofs of Concept with Industrial Impact/NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000020" is financed by the North Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE 2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, and through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). All the works were conducted at INESC TEC’s MASSIVE Virtual Reality Laboratory

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José Vasconcelos-Raposo

José Vasconcelos-Raposo is a full-professor in the Department of Education and Psychology at UTAD, specialized in Performance Psychology. He is a member of INESC TEC-UTAD and his research interests are in the use of technology in improving human performance applied in sports and health care.

Maximino Bessa

Miguel Melo is a post-doc researcher at INESC TEC, specialized in Computer Graphics. He is manager of the Multisensory Virtual Reality Laboratory and his research interests are Computer Graphics, HDR and Multisensory Virtual Reality.

Carla Maria Teixeira

Carla Maria Teixeira is an associate professor in the Department of Education and Psychology at UTAD, specialized in Health & Exercise Psychology. Her research interests are Psychological Assessment, Mental Illness, Psychopathology and Child Development.

Luciana Cabral

Luciana Cabral is invited assistant professor in the Department of Education and Psychology at UTAD, specialized in Literature Didactics. She is member of the CITCEM, (Transdisciplinary Research Centre Culture, Space and Memory).

Miguel Melo

Maximino Bessa is an assistant professor, with Habilitation, of the Department of Engineering of the UTAD, Portugal, senior researcher of INESC TEC since 2009 and director of the Multisensory Virtual Reality Laboratory MASSIVE. He is member of the Eurographics Association since 2003 and vice-president of the Portuguese Computer Graphics Chapter for the period 2016–2018.