Escala de creencias acerca de la felicidad en población adulta de la ciudad de bucaramanga (Colombia)*

the objective of this non-experimental-cross sectional-correlational study was to valídate 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 α = 88, and each factor between: 0.88 <α > 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).