Argentinean Adaptation of the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths for Youth (VIA-Youth): Psychometric Properties and Alternatives for its Factoring

The Values in Action Inventory of Strengths for Youth (VIA-Youth) is an instrument developed to evaluate adolescents' character strengths. The aim of this paper is to present the process of adaptation of this instrument for its use with adolescents from Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the first stage, linguistic and conceptual adaptation was achieved. In the second stage, the local version of the scale was applied to a sample of 542 adolescents (boys = 45.40%; girls = 54.60%) with a mean age of 14.92 (SD=1.79) attending to public schools and private. Discrimination capacity of items and reliability of subscales were studied. With the purpose of studying construct validity, two exploratory factor analyses (EFA) were performed using different procedures. The results are discussed in light of current recommendations for EFA and the factoring found for the use of the VIA-Youth in this population of adolescents.