Propiedades psicométricas del cuestionario para medir estrategias de aumento de la felicidad (HIS) en versión castellana (CEA-EAP)

Abstract

The scale of happiness increase (HIS, of Tkach and Lyubomirsky, 2006) to measure behavioural strategies of increased happiness, was adapted to the Chilean context with the name of questionnaire of strategies to increase positive moods (CEA-EAP), with 44 items in 4-point likert format. This, together with the EFS (Lyubomirsky y Lepper 1999) was answered by 443 undergraduates (global Cronbach’s alpha =.80), who self-rated as extra or Introverted. The ANAFAC showed an 8 factors structure –mostly with good reliability– that differed from the original. The strategies of mental and self-care control or positive re-evaluation and positive reorientation of attention, the recreational socialization or celebrate and, to a lesser extent but also other three different strategies were associated with happiness (EFS), and to the self-rating of Extrovert. Passive leisure was associated with introversion and had no relationship with the EFS.