The short form of the VIA Inventory of Strengths

• Carolina M. Azañedo ^[3] ; Enrique G. Fernández-Abascal ^[1] ; Jorge Barraca ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

     Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

     Madrid, España

     
  2. [2] Universidad Camilo José Cela

     Universidad Camilo José Cela

     Villanueva de la Cañada, España

     
  3. [3] Centro Universitario Cardenal Cisneros

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• Localización: Psicothema, ISSN-e 1886-144X, ISSN 0214-9915, Vol. 29, Nº. 2, 2017, págs. 254-260
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.7334/psicothema2016.225
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  • Versión corta del cuestionario VIA de Fortalezas Personales
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    Antecedentes: el Instituto VIA ha presentado el cuestionario de fortalezas VIA-120 como el cuestionario estándar, que reemplaza a la versión original de 240 ítems. Este trabajo consistió en la construcción y evaluación inicial de la versión española del VIA-120, una versión corta de la adaptación española del cuestionario de fortalezas VIA-IS. Método: esta versión corta fue desarrollada a partir de los datos de 2.143 adultos y se construyó mediante la selección de los cinco ítems con los mayores coeficientes de correlación elemento-total de cada subescala original. Resultados: los resultados respaldaron la fiabilidad y validez de la versión española del VIA-120 para medir las 24 fortalezas de la clasificación VIA. Los coeficientes de consistencia interna de las subescalas del VIA-120 fueron sustancialmente equivalentes a los de la versión larga. La versión reducida mostró una alta convergencia con el cuestionario original en relación a los estadísticos descriptivos y las correlaciones con satisfacción vital y afecto positivo y negativo. Los coeficientes de congruencia indicaron también una elevada convergencia entre las estructuras factoriales de ambas versiones. Conclusiones: la versión española del VIA-120 constituye un instrumento válido y fiable para la evaluación de las fortalezas personales.

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    Background: The VIA Institute on Character is offering the VIA-120 as the standard VIA Survey, replacing the original 240-item version. The present work involved the construction and the initial evaluation of the Spanish VIA-120 as a short version of the Spanish adaptation of the VIA-IS. Method: This short form was developed using data from 2,143 Spanish-speaking adults. The Spanish VIA-120 was developed by selecting the five items with the highest corrected item-total correlations from the 10 items per subscale of the Spanish VIA-IS. Results: Results lent support to the reliability and validity of this short form to measure the 24 character strengths included in The Values in Action (VIA) classification. The internal consistency coefficients of the subscales of the Spanish version of the VIA-120 were substantially equivalent to the long version. The VIA-120 showed high convergence with the Spanish VIA-IS in terms of descriptive statistics and associations with life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect. Factor structure congruence coefficients also indicated very high convergence between the VIA-IS and the short form. Conclusions: The Spanish VIA-120 proved to be a reliable, valid instrument for the assessment of character strengths.

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