New Well-Being Measures: Short Scales to Assess Flourishing and Positive and Negative Feelings

• Main Authors: DIENER, Ed, WIRTZ, Derrick, TOV, William, KIM-PRIETO, Chu, CHOI, Dong-won, OISHI, Shigehiro, Biswas-DIENER, Robert
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: Subjective well-being; Well-being; Measure; Positive affect; Negative affect; Scales (or Assessment); Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/740; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1739/viewcontent/New_well_being_measures_Short_scales_to_assess_flourishing_and_positive_and_negative_feelings.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...