Propiedades psicométricas de la Escala de Satisfacción con la Vida en estudiantes de Trabajo Social

Nicolás Álvarez-Merlano; Verónica  Castro-Bocanegra

doi:10.30827/tsg-gsw.v12.25079

Authors

Nicolás Álvarez-Merlano Corporación Universitaria Rafael Núñez
Verónica Castro-Bocanegra Corporación Universitaria Rafael Núñez

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30827/tsg-gsw.v12.25079

Keywords:

Social work, university student, life satisfaction, psychometrics, scale

Abstract

The present scientific article analyzes the properties of the Satisfaction with the Life (SWLS). By using a quantitative methodology of an instrumental and descriptive nature, sixty university students from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Rafael Núñez University Corporation, who are currently studying their undergraduate degree in Social Work, participated in the study. A sociodemographic questionnaire and the version translated and adapted to Spanish of Vázquez et al. (2013) were used as an instrument for this research. The reliability analysis indicates that the scale has an adequate internal consistency (α = 0.78; ω= 0.80); in that same order the Bartlett Sphericity test warned of a dependence of the five items (Bartlett's test = 90.250; p< 0.05). The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin coefficient offered a value of .78 indicating that correlations between pairs of items can be explained by the remaining items. The interrelation of the elements with the whole was acceptable (0.48 and 0.65, p ≤.005). The analysis of the components determined a single factor, and every reagent had a weight factorial suitably (0.64-0.79), being able to conclude that the scale is advisable to use it in samples of this type.

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Author Biographies

Nicolás Álvarez-Merlano, Corporación Universitaria Rafael Núñez

Psicológo. Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar. Magíster (C.) Métodos y Técnicas de Investigación Social. Universidad Industrial de Santander. Docente-Investigador. Programa de Trabajo Social. Corporación Universitaria Rafael Núñez

Verónica Castro-Bocanegra, Corporación Universitaria Rafael Núñez

Instrumentadora Quirurgíca. Corporación Universitaria Rafael Núñez. Magíster en Salud Pública. Universidad del Norte. Docente-Investigadora. Programa de Instrumentación Quirurgíca. Corporación Universitaria Rafael Núñez.

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