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Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment 2/2016

21-08-2015

Clarity of Personal Values and Committed Action: Development of a Shorter Engaged Living Scale

Auteurs: Inês A. Trindade, Cláudia Ferreira, José Pinto-Gouveia, Loes Nooren

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment | Uitgave 2/2016

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Abstract

The Engaged Living Scale (ELS) is a measure of the process of engaged living, defined by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as the evaluation and performance of valued life activities. This 16-item measure was recently created and has been validated in middle-aged and chronic pain samples. The aim of the present study was to validate the ELS-16 in a young-adult sample and additionally to develop a shorter ELS. This study was conducted using different samples of Portuguese young-adult college students. The dimensionality of the ELS-16 (which was translated to Portuguese from the original Dutch) was tested through a CFA. The adequacy of the shorter ELS (ELS-9) was also tested through a CFA. The scales’ internal reliability and other psychometric qualities were additionally analysed. Results from the CFA suggested that the model benefits from the establishment of correlations between pairs of error terms of items with similar contents. These results led to the decision to shorten the measure by excluding the item of each pair with the lowest communalities. The ELS-9 was then created and its CFA results revealed good to excellent adjustment values and goodness-of-fit indices. Results also showed that the ELS-16 and the ELS-9 present adequate to good psychometric properties. The present study thus shows that these instruments seem to be reliable measures of engaged living and to perform adequately in young-adult college students, with the ELS-9 being a new contribution to health research and allowing faster administrations.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Clarity of Personal Values and Committed Action: Development of a Shorter Engaged Living Scale
Auteurs
Inês A. Trindade
Cláudia Ferreira
José Pinto-Gouveia
Loes Nooren
Publicatiedatum
21-08-2015
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment / Uitgave 2/2016
Print ISSN: 0882-2689
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3505
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-015-9509-7

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