Revista médica de Chile
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Revista médica de Chile · Oct 2020
[The general self-efficacy scale (GSES): Reevaluation of its reliability and validity evidence in Chile].
Self-efficacy is a psychological variable closely related to healthy behaviors. One of the most widely used instruments to measure this variable is the general self-efficacy scale (GSES). In Chile, the only psychometric study of this scale has important analytical limitations. ⋯ The GSES is an adequate scale to measure general self-efficacy in the Chilean population and allows unbiased comparisons based on sex or age.