Evaluación de las competencias personales y sociales (personalidad eficaz) en estudiantes universitarios chileno de formación del profesorado

Abstract

The version of the instrument “Effective Personality” used in this study evalues the Personality Effective in contexts of Chilean university students, published by Dapelo and Martín del Buey (2006) “Student Effective in the context of training teachers. Adaptation of Personality Questionnaire Effective at university”. The instrument has 30 items and its purpose is evaluate the personal and social skills constituents the effective personality construct. This communication has undertaken a review of its psychometric characteristics in Chilean universities. The sample of the study was 306 university students majoring in teacher training. It was obtained an alpha reliability of Croncach of 0,897. Exploratory Factor Analysis showed five factors explaining 57,04% of variance. The structure of these factors is distributed similary than the original, except that the dimension of Relations of self was divided into positive and negative social self-realization. Moreover, Confirmatory Factor Analysis indicated a better fit of the original structure of four factors. These factors reconfirm the validity of construct effective centered personality strengths of self (self-concept and self-esteem) Claims of self (expectations motivation and attribution) Challenges of self (coping and decision making) and Relations of self (empathy, assertiveness and communication). This instrument makes it possible to analyze the relationship of university environmental systems with the development of personal and social skills objective of this symposium and performed for the first time in Chilean university contexts.