Construct validity and reliability of the Satisfaction with Life Scale, in schoolchildren from rural and urban areas of

Resumo

The aim of the present instrumental study was to determine the validity of the construct and reliability
of the Satisfaction with Life Scale, in schoolchildren from rural and urban areas of Cundinamarca. The study
involved the application of the scale on 258 schoolchildren from the city of Bogotá and the municipalities of
Subachoque and Cogua, Cundinamarca, aged between 12 and 18 years of age (M = 15.03, SD = 1.219), carrying out exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, as well as an analysis of reliability and internal consistency. The results show a unifactorial scale, which explains the 57.669% of the total variance, with said unifactorial model confirmed, a Cronbach’s alpha of .814, positive correlations among all the reagents and between the items with the total of the scale, which allows us to conclude/state that the Satisfaction with Life Scale has adequate validity and reliability indexes to be used as a measure in schoolchildren in rural and urban areas of Cundinamarca.