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

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.