Scale of Prosocial Behavior: Psychometric Evidence in Adolescents from the Colombian Caribbean

The present study aimed to carry out the corroboration of the psychometric characteristics of the Prosocial Behavior Scale for Adolescents of Balabanian & Lemos (2018). A non-probabilistic snowball sample of 612 adolescent high school students from the department of Cesar, Colombia was taken. The results of the Parallel Exploratory Factor Analysis support a 2-dimensional structure of the instrument with 25 items; Likewise, the Confirmatory Factor Analysis using ULS shows the following goodness of fit indicators: CMIN/DF=2.53, IFI=.972, TLI.969, CFI=.972, GFI=.994, SRMR=.059 and RMSEA=.07. Concurrent validity is also evidenced by positive and significant correlation between the Prosocial Behavior Scale and its dimensions and the three components of an emotional intelligence measurement. Similarly, in terms of evidence of reliability, ??=.915 and ??=.915 were found for the entire scale; these same Cronbach???s Alpha and McDonald's Omega values for each of the two dimensions of the instrument are greater than .85. It is concluded that the instrument has adequate psychometric characteristics for the measurement of prosocial behavior in the adolescent population of the Colombian Caribbean.