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.