Publicación: HAPPINES SCALE FOR ADULTS (EFPA)
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2018
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Terapia Psicologica
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STUDYING HAPPINESS PSYCHOMETRICALLY IS RECENT, AND THE FEW AVAILABLE INSTRUMENTS ARE ENGLISH ROOTED. HAPPINESS IS A CONCEPT THAT HASN?T REACHED TO AN AGREEMENT YET, TYPICALLY MEASURED AS UNIDIMENSIONAL, THROUGH A FEW DIRECT ITEMS, AND USUALLY NOT SPECIFYING WHAT CONSTITUTES IT. IN STUDY 1, AND BASED ON A PENTADIMENSIONAL AND EMIC CONCEPT OF HAPPINESS, A 100 ITEMS SCALE WAS BUILT TO MEASURE IT AMONG CHILEAN ADULTS. IT WAS APPLIED TO DIFFERENT SAMPLES (N=68; N=277) AND REFINED THROUGH EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS, GIVING ORIGIN TO THE HAPPINESS SCALE FOR ADULTS (EFPA) ?COMPOSED BY 21 ITEMS-WITH GOOD RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY, DISTRIBUTED AMONG FOUR DIMENSIONS: PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE, HAVING FAMILY, ACHIEVEMENT ORIENTATION AND OPTIMISM. IN STUDY 2, THE EFPA CROSSED VALIDITY WAS CARRIED OUT WITH A NEW SAMPLE OF ADULTS (N=341), AND THROUGH PARALLEL ANALYSIS AND STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING VARIOUS MODELS WERE TESTED, BEING CONFIRMED ONE OF 4 AND OTHER OF 3 DIMENSIONS, KEEPING THE LATER: STATE, HAVING FAMILY AND ACHIEVEMENT ORIENTATION.
