Propiedades psicométricas de la escala de bienestar psicológico de Ryff en un colegio de la ciudad de Cuenca, periodo 2020-2021

Abstract

Psychological well-being is an important variable in the evolutionary development of the human being, since it is an indicator of mental health. Adolescence is a stage where physical, psychological and cognitive changes are experienced and could compromise the well-being of the individual, which is why it is necessary to have valid and reliable instruments that allow to measure this construct. This research was quantitative, descriptive in scope and type of cross-sectional study. The objective was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the psychological well-being scale in adolescents of the Manuel J. Calle high school. The population consisted of 655 students, of which the sample was 243. Information was collected through a sociodemographic record and the Ryff psychological well-being scale. The data processing was carried out in Microsoft Excel and in the statistical program R. It was found that the instrument has a good internal consistency that ranged between .616 and .798. On the other hand, the exploratory factor analysis was carried out, where it was shown that the scale does not fit the six-factor model suggested by the original authors, so a two-factor solution was proposed as the most appropriate to explain the variance in the scores, these two factors explain 47% of the total variance and were identified as Selfacceptance and Positive relationships. A total of 29 questions met the criteria for discrimination and factor loadings with a Varimax rotation, while with an Oblimin rotation, a total of 19 items were obtained