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Youth Well-Being: Strengthening mental health and human capital in a social programme for vulnerable young people in Colombia

Colombia, 2025 - 2026
DESS

Reference ID

10.16909-dataset-67

DOI

Producer(s)

Mauricio Avendano, Martha Escobar Lux, Fabio Idrobo Bonilla, Armando N. Meier, Omar Y. Vargas Rodriguez

Collections

Department of epidemiology and health systems (DESS)

Metadata

Self-control: Brief Self-control scale - I have trouble concentrating. (bscs10)

Data file: Individual-level surveys dataset

Overview

Valid: 35059
Invalid: 40937
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Please indicate how much each of the following statements reflects how you typically are.
Bscs10_1. I have trouble concentrating.
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 Not at all 5144
14.7%
1 Slightly 10930
31.2%
2 Moderately 9419
26.9%
3 Much 5845
16.7%
4 Very much 3721
10.6%
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Others

Notes
Topic: Standardised instrument : BSCS

Asked in survey wave(s): Baseline survey, Follow-up 1 survey, Follow-up 2 survey

Reference/note: Original instrument: Tangney JP, Baumeister RF, Boone AL (2004). High self-control predicts good adjustment, less pathology, better grades, and interpersonal success. J Pers 72(2):271–324. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3506.2004.00263.x
Colombian validation: Rendón MI, Muñoz L, Jaramillo JM, Weis M (2021). Factor structure of the Brief Self-Control Scale in Spanish. Diversitas: Perspectivas en Psicología 17(1):3–20. https://doi.org/10.15332/22563067.6519
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