Satisfaction with Life in High School Students from Arequipa

• Autores: Arias Gallegos, Walter Lizandro, Huamani Cahua, Julio Cesar, Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2018
• Institución: Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola
• Repositorio: Revista USIL - Propósitos y Representaciones
• Lenguaje: español; inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.revistas.usil.edu.pe:article/206
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.usil.edu.pe/index.php/pyr/article/view/206
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Satisfaction with life; Positive Psychology; Education; Psychometry.; Satisfaction with life; Positive Psychology; Education; Psychometry; Satisfacción con la vida; psicología positiva; educación; psicometría

This study, in the framework of the Positive Educational Psychology, has two objectives: to perform a psychometric analysis of the Satisfaction with Life Scale, and to compare the resulting values according to gender, age and educational institution, in a group of schoolers from the city of Arequipa. We worked with a sample of 872 students in the 4th and 5th year of high school, from five mixed and single-sex schools. Besides, 46.9% of this sample are male students and 53.1% are female students. The sample was obtained by probabilistic methods. The Diener’s Satisfaction with Life Scale was used. The outcomes indicate that the test has a one-dimensional factorial structure and suitable reliability for latent variables (ω= .99 and H= .99). The comparisons suggest that, male students and those who are older have higherlevels of satisfaction with life.
This study, in the framework of the Positive Educational Psychology, has two objectives: to perform a psychometric analysis of the Satisfaction with Life Scale, and to compare the resulting values according to gender, age and educational institution, in a group of schoolers from the city of Arequipa. We worked with a sample of 872 students in the 4th and 5th year of high school, from five mixed and single-sex schools. Besides, 46.9% of this sample are male students and 53.1% are female students. The sample was obtained by probabilistic methods. The Diener’s Satisfaction with Life Scale was used. The outcomes indicate that the test has a one-dimensional factorial structure and suitable reliability for latent variables (ω= .99 and H= .99). The comparisons suggest that, male students and those who are older have higher levels of satisfaction with life.
El presente estudio, que se enmarca dentro de la Psicología Positiva Educativa, tiene dos objetivos, analizar psicométricamente la Escala de Satisfacción con la Vida, y comparar los valores resultantes en función del sexo, la edad y la institución de procedencia, en un grupo de escolares de la ciudad de Arequipa. Se trabajó con una muestra de 872 estudiantes de 4to y 5to de media de cinco escuelas de gestión mixta y diferenciada, donde el 46.9% son varones y el 53.1% mujeres, obtenida por métodos probabilísticos. Se utilizó la Escala de Satisfacción con la Vida de Diener. Los resultados indican que la prueba cuenta con una estructura factorial unidimensional y una confiabilidad adecuada para variables latentes, (ω= .99 y H= .99). Las comparaciones efectuadas sugieren que los varones y los estudiantes de mayor edad presentan niveles mayores de satisfacción con la vida.