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ALVAREZ RAMIREZ, Leonardo Yovany. Beliefs about happiness scale into adult population in the city of Bucaramanga (Colombia). Investig. desarro. [online]. 2012, vol.20, n.2, pp.302-333. ISSN 0121-3261.

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).

Palabras clave : Happiness; beliefs; Scale; adult.

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