Developing and Validating a Short Scale Assessing Generic Life Skills
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Developing and Validating a Short Scale Assessing Generic Life Skills Simon Ozer1
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Preben Bertelsen1
Received: 15 August 2019 / Accepted: 8 June 2020 National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) India 2020
Abstract Life psychology is an integrative framework theory centered on how individuals employ their generic life skills in handling everyday life tasks and reaching life goals. Indeed, the theory relates to the accelerating complexity of contemporary globalized societies and how we need generic life skills in order to successfully navigate through a fluid and dynamic context. Within the theory of life psychology, ten life skills have been identified and these are categorized into (1) participation in life, (2) realistic attunement, and (3) perspective taking. The present paper describes the development and validation of a new measure tapping into these three categories as well as an overall aggregated dimension of life skills. Our analyses indicate that the scale holds a solid factor structure. Furthermore, convergent validity was established through the related concepts of self-determination and self-efficacy, and predictive validity was examined in relation to life satisfaction. Our scale holds great implications in regard to developing the empirical foundation for research in the field of life psychology. Keywords Life psychology Life skills Measurement Scale Validation
Life psychology (Bertelsen, 2013) is an integrative framework theory centered on the assumption that generic life skills are necessary to handle general everyday life
& Simon Ozer [email protected] 1
Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Research Unit Life Psychology, Aarhus University, Bartholins Alle´ 11, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
tasks in order to reach a good enough life. Life skills in general refer to psychosocial competencies and interpersonal skills that shape our actions and interaction with others and society (Erawan, 2010). Consequently, the conception of life skills emerges as pivotal in relation to adequately negotiating and addressing life challenges and is generically relevant for all humans across gender, cultural, and age differences. One’s life skills must be developed in order to establish, maintain, and develop one’s own and common life, making the concept of life skills central to interventions based on the life psychological theory. The application of life psychology concerns interventions for advancing the individual’s life skills to match the requirements of the life tasks immediate to the individual (Bertelsen, 2018). The theory of life psychology thus holds important implications for a diverse field of applications across psychology as well as cognate disciplines. With the accelerating complexity of contemporary globalized societies, life skills are needed to handle both the tasks of everyday life and the tasks associated with less clear sociocultural structures. That is, in recent years cultural globalization has challenged the cultural homogeneity and traditions in specific contexts (O
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