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A scale for adolescent psichological well-being assessment (Bipsi). design and validation

Abstract:

This study aimed to construct and valildate a psychologial well-being scale for adolescents. 733 adolescents between 12 and 18 years with a mean of 15.2 (: 1,1), with 268 being male (49.9%) and 269 (50.1%) being female were sampled. The instrument’s internal consistency was 00.922, the scales showed Cronbach’s alphas between 0.625 and 0.875. Explor-atory factorial analysis was made using the VARIMAX method and with the use of statistical packages masters. Once obtained, the ítems were grouped according to six factors and significantly high correlations were found between the subscales with the dimension score (0.104** and 0.798**). The confirmatory factorial analysis showed that the model of six factors has acceptable goodness of fit indicies concluding that this is a reliable and a valid instrument for the psychological well-being in adolescent assessment.