Chilean adaptation of the EPOCH adolescent welfare scale
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https://doi.org/10.15658/rev.electron.educ.pedagog20.11040705Keywords:
Student well-being (Thesaurus); adolescent wellness; wellness; positive education; positive psychology (Author's keywords).Abstract
Nowadays, there is a growing interest in promoting well-being in educational contexts, which has led several authors to propose models to assess well-being and the creation of instruments. One of the instruments used to evaluate adolescent well-being is the EPOCH scale, based on the PERMA model that comprises dimensions such as engagement, connectivity, happiness, optimism and perseverance. This research aimed to adapt the EPOCH Adolescent Welfare Scale developed by Peggy Kern, Lizbeth Benson, Elizabeth A. Steinberg and Laurence Steinberg (2016). Data were collected from 1558 students between 11 and 18 years of age from four educational institutions from Antofagasta (Chile). The discriminatory capacity of the items was studied, as well as the factorial structure of the instrument. The results obtained show acceptable psychometric behavior and a structure similar to that proposed by the authors. We can conclude that the EPOCH scale is a useful tool to assess adolescent welfare, in Chilean educational contexts.
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