Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
6-2010
Abstract
Measures of well-being were created to assess psychological flourishing and feelings—positive feelings, negative feelings, and the difference between the two. The scales were evaluated in a sample of 689 college students from six locations. The Flourishing Scale is a brief 8-item summary measure of the respondent’s self-perceived success in important areas such as relationships, self-esteem, purpose, and optimism. The scale provides a single psychological well-being score. The measure has good psychometric properties, and is strongly associated with other psychological well-being scales. The Scale of Positive and Negative Experience produces a score for positive feelings (6 items), a score for negative feelings (6 items), and the two can be combined to create a balance score. This 12-item brief scale has a number of desirable features compared to earlier measures of positive and negative emotions. In particular, the scale assesses with a few items a broad range of negative and positive experiences and feelings, not just those of a certain type, and is based on the amount of time the feelings were experienced during the past 4 weeks. The scale converges well with measures of emotions and affective well-being
Keywords
Subjective well-being, Well-being, Measure, Positive affect, Negative affect, Scales (or Assessment)
Discipline
Social Psychology
Research Areas
Psychology
Publication
Social Indicators Research
Volume
97
Issue
2
First Page
143
Last Page
156
ISSN
0303-8300
Identifier
10.1007/s11205-009-9493-y
Publisher
Springer
Citation
DIENER, Ed, WIRTZ, Derrick, TOV, William, KIM-PRIETO, Chu, CHOI, Dong-won, OISHI, Shigehiro, & Biswas-DIENER, Robert.(2010). New Well-Being Measures: Short Scales to Assess Flourishing and Positive and Negative Feelings. Social Indicators Research, 97(2), 143-156.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/740
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-009-9493-y