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BALAGUER, Álvaro; BENITEZ, Edgar; SERRANO, Belén  y  OREJUDO, Santos. Relationship between Life Skills and General Self-Efficacy. Validation of HVD-A scale. Psychology, Society & Education [online]. 2023, vol.15, n.2, pp.66-75.  Epub 18-Mar-2024. ISSN 1989-709X.  https://dx.doi.org/10.21071/psye.v15i2.16013.

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.

Palabras clave : Life skills; General Self-Efficacy; Positive Psychology; Adolescents; Validation.

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