Validación Transcultural del Cuestionario de Habilidades Sociales para Universitarios en Estudiantes Chilenos y Argentinos (CHS-U)

Abstract

The aim of this study is to conduct a cross-cultural validation of the Social Skills Questionnaire for College Students by Morán et al. (2015) in Chilean and Argentinean students. 1025 university students, 771 from Argentina and 254 from Chile altogether between 20 and 25 years old, 61.2% women and 38.8% men, were evaluated. We carried out a confirmatory factor analysis that found the five dimensions of the original instrument, and a factorial invariance test comparing Argentine and Chilean students, obtaining evidence of configural and metric invariance between the two groups. The instrument shows an adequate internal consistency both for the complete instrument and for each of its dimensions. These results allow us to have a valid and reliable instrument for the evaluation of the social skills in students from both countries.