Keywords
life satisfaction
BMSLSS
children
psychometric properties
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Abstract
This paper analyzes the psychometric properties of the Brief Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale -BMSLSS (Seligson, Huebner and Valois, 2003) in Chilean children. 1096 Chilean students of 10, 11 and 12 years-old participated in the study. Reliability analysis, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and item correlation with total score were performed. Results show acceptable internal reliability of the scale (α = 0.7), a single factor structure of the scale and appropriate item correlation with total score (between 0.55 and 0.73) This study supports the use of the BMSLSS in children in Chile in the school context, and also provides measurement tools for social indicators for children in Spanishspeaking developing countries.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.