%0 Journal Article
%T Escala de creencias acerca de la felicidad en poblaci¨®n adulta de la ciudad de bucaramanga (Colombia)*
%A ¨¢lvarez Ram¨ªrez
%A Leonardo Yovany
%J Investigaci¨®n y Desarrollo
%D 2012
%I Universidad del Norte
%X the objective of this non-experimental-cross sectional-correlational study was to val¨ªdate a likert scale on beliefs about happiness into a group of 600 adults in the city of bucaramanga (colombia). the varimax rotation showeda nine factors solution, explaining the 92% of variance among 47 items. the whole scale presented a total alpha crombach ¦Á = 88, and each factor between: 0.88 <¦Á > 0.78. the correlations item-factor were high: r= (0.53 - 0.71) and those item-test: r= (0.59-0.70). the correlation with age was r=-0.136, with p<0.57 as well as the economical strata p<0.53.there were no differences found in the means by gender (96.11); women (94.20);p=0.0343).
%K happiness
%K beliefs
%K scale
%K adult.
%U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0121-32612012000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en