Abstract

We analysed the psychometric properties of the brief Spanish version of Psychological Well-Being Scales by Ryff in a sample of 300 adults from the city of Santiago of Chile. In order to do it, reliability (internal consistency and temporal stability), construct validity and convergent and divergent validity were estimated with the following instruments: Subjective Happiness Scale, State-Trait Optimism Questionnaire and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). The main results showed an alpha of 0.89 and temporal stability of 0.80 (3 weeks apart). The correlations between scales and instruments were adequate and significant in line with the theoretical expectations. However, the data do not conform to the theoretical proposal of six factors proposed, indicating the need to further study about the variables that compose the scale for its use in Latin-American population.