Development of the short version of the Scales of General Well-Being: the 14-item SGWB

The Scales of General Well-Being (SGWB, Longo, Coyne, & Joseph, 2017) is a 65-item tool assessing fourteen different constructs. The aim of this study was to develop a short 14-item version. One item was chosen from each of the fourteen scales following inspection of previously-published factor...

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Main Authors: Longo, Ylenio, Coyne, Iain, Joseph, Stephen
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Coyne, Iain
Joseph, Stephen
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description The Scales of General Well-Being (SGWB, Longo, Coyne, & Joseph, 2017) is a 65-item tool assessing fourteen different constructs. The aim of this study was to develop a short 14-item version. One item was chosen from each of the fourteen scales following inspection of previously-published factor loadings and content validity ratings. In total, 446 responses from U.S residents were collected from Amazon Mechanical Turk. Results supported a factor structure consistent with the long form, as well as good internal consistency. Additionally, general well-being scores of short- and long-form correlated at 0.96 and each item in the short-form was strongly related to its respective long-form scale. The 14-item SGWB offers a brief assessment of well-being based on a novel and comprehensive operational definition, and promises to be of practical use to researchers and clinicians.
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spelling nottingham-484722019-11-29T04:30:10Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48472/ Development of the short version of the Scales of General Well-Being: the 14-item SGWB Longo, Ylenio Coyne, Iain Joseph, Stephen The Scales of General Well-Being (SGWB, Longo, Coyne, & Joseph, 2017) is a 65-item tool assessing fourteen different constructs. The aim of this study was to develop a short 14-item version. One item was chosen from each of the fourteen scales following inspection of previously-published factor loadings and content validity ratings. In total, 446 responses from U.S residents were collected from Amazon Mechanical Turk. Results supported a factor structure consistent with the long form, as well as good internal consistency. Additionally, general well-being scores of short- and long-form correlated at 0.96 and each item in the short-form was strongly related to its respective long-form scale. The 14-item SGWB offers a brief assessment of well-being based on a novel and comprehensive operational definition, and promises to be of practical use to researchers and clinicians. Elsevier 2018-04-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by_nc_nd https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48472/8/Development%20of%20the%20Short%20Version%20of%20the%20Scales%20of%20General%20Well-Being.pdf application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48472/1/1-s2.0-S0191886917306992-main.pdf Longo, Ylenio, Coyne, Iain and Joseph, Stephen (2018) Development of the short version of the Scales of General Well-Being: the 14-item SGWB. Personality and Individual Differences, 124 . pp. 31-34. ISSN 0191-8869 Well-being; Short form; SGWB; Flourishing; Measurement; Scale; Validation; Factor analysis http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886917306992 doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.11.042 doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.11.042
spellingShingle Well-being; Short form; SGWB; Flourishing; Measurement; Scale; Validation; Factor analysis
Longo, Ylenio
Coyne, Iain
Joseph, Stephen
Development of the short version of the Scales of General Well-Being: the 14-item SGWB
title Development of the short version of the Scales of General Well-Being: the 14-item SGWB
title_full Development of the short version of the Scales of General Well-Being: the 14-item SGWB
title_fullStr Development of the short version of the Scales of General Well-Being: the 14-item SGWB
title_full_unstemmed Development of the short version of the Scales of General Well-Being: the 14-item SGWB
title_short Development of the short version of the Scales of General Well-Being: the 14-item SGWB
title_sort development of the short version of the scales of general well-being: the 14-item sgwb
topic Well-being; Short form; SGWB; Flourishing; Measurement; Scale; Validation; Factor analysis
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