Relationship between Life Skills and General Self-EfficacyValidation of HVD-A scale

  1. Álvaro Balaguer 1
  2. Edgar Benítez 1
  3. Belén Serrano 2
  4. Santos Orejudo 3
  1. 1 Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona (España)
  2. 2 Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación, Zaragoza (España)
  3. 3 Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza (España)
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Journal:
Psychology, Society & Education

ISSN: 1989-709X,  2171-2085

Year of publication: 2023

Volume: 15

Issue: 2

Pages: 66-75

Type: Article

DOI: 10.21071/PSE.V15I2.16013 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

World Health Organization’s approach was one of the most comprehensive frameworks in categorizing the essential skills for youth, creating the 10 Daily Life Skills Education. There is a scarcity of instruments for Life Skills assessment. For this reason, Daily Life Skills Education Questionnaire for Adolescents (HVD-A) scale was created to assess 10 Daily Life Skills as a global construct under the positive psychology framework. The objective of this work was to analyze the relationships between Life Skills and General Self-Efficacy, finding additional evidence for the validity of the HVD-A scale across sex and age. A sample of 1,507 adolescents between 12 and 18 years old filled the HVD-A scale and the General Self-Efficacy scale. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyzes were carried out to evaluate the original model fit in different samples. A unifactorial model showed adequate fit to the data. The Structural Equation Modelling analysis showed a significant association between Life Skills and General Self-Efficacy. In some items, the HVD-A scale may underestimate the scores in girls of middle-late adolescence. The usefulness and implications of the instrument for the scientific and applied field of psychology and education are debated.

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