Academic psychological capital questionnaire 12 (APCQ-12): psychometric validity and measurement invariance in a Chilean sample of high school students

Marcos Carmona-Halty; Geraldy Sepúlveda-Páez; Carla Semir-González; Karina Alarcón-Castillo; Patricio Mena-Chamorro

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1229170

Academic psychological capital questionnaire 12 (APCQ-12): psychometric validity and measurement invariance in a Chilean sample of high school students

Front Psychol. 2023 Nov 21:14:1229170. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1229170. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Marcos Carmona-Halty¹, Geraldy Sepúlveda-Páez¹, Carla Semir-González¹, Karina Alarcón-Castillo¹, Patricio Mena-Chamorro¹

Affiliation

¹ Escuela de Psicología y Filosofía, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile.

Abstract

The present study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Academic Psychological Capital Questionnaire 12 (APCQ-12) in a sample of 2,196 Chilean high school students (51% girls) aged 12 to 17 years (mean 14.83 years). Results showed that: (1) the APCQ-12 produces adequate scores in terms of reliability, (2) the internal structure of the questionnaire obtains adequate fit indices, for a second order model, which is consistent with previous research, and (3) the APCQ-12 proved to be sex and age invariant. Overall, the APCQ-12 proved to be an adequate questionnaire for measuring academic psychological capital in Chilean high school students, producing valid and reliable scores.

Keywords: academic PsyCap; high school students; invariance; psychological capital; psychometric analyzes.