The article describes the psychometric analysis of the APGAR Scale developed by Smilkstein (1978), consisting of five Likert items with five alternatives, which evaluates the perception of family functioning (Gómez & Ponce, 2010). The scale was administered to 256 male students aged from 11 to 18 attending state school in Lima. Item-test correlation analysis provided evidence of highly significant relations (p<0.001) for each of the reagents, indicating that reagents evaluate indicators of the same construct. To assess the perception of family functioning, APGAR Scale has moderate internal consistency (Cronbach a = .788). Construct validity was established by factor analysis and a single factor was obtained through a principal component analysis and the orthogonal rotation (Varimax).

The article describes the psychometric analysis of the APGAR Scale developed by Smilkstein (1978), consisting of five Likert items with five alternatives, which evaluates the perception of family functioning (Gómez & Ponce, 2010). The scale was administered to 256 male students aged from 11 to 18 attending state school in Lima. Item-test correlation analysis provided evidence of highly significant relations (p<0.001) for each of the reagents, indicating that reagents evaluate indicators of the same construct. To assess the perception of family functioning, APGAR Scale has moderate internal consistency (Cronbach a = .788). Construct validity was established by factor analysis and a single factor was obtained through a principal component analysis and the orthogonal rotation (Varimax).

ABSTRACT The study describes the different characteristics of hope in young adults and college students by sex and age from Herth Hope scores Index, in its Peruvian adaptation (Castilla et al., 2014). For it was attended by 420 people, males (47.9%) and women (52.1%), aged between 16 and 38 years (average = 20.16; S.D. = 4.57). The results show that women, compared with men, are more likely to experience some degree of hope; while people of the older age group have higher scores in the hope that the younger age group, also, as the years elapse greater is the level of hope. The results contribute to a better understanding of hope, a variable associated with health and wellness, and allows an empirical framework to the design and implementation of intervention programs aimed at promoting the expression of positive variables.