posted on 2017-12-01, 09:48authored byYlenio Longo, Iain CoyneIain Coyne, Stephen Joseph
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 .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.
History
School
Business and Economics
Department
Business
Published in
Personality and Individual Differences
Volume
124
Pages
31 - 34
Citation
LONGO, Y., COYNE, I.J. and JOSEPH, S., 2017. Development of the short version of the scales of general well-being: The 14-item SGWB. Personality and Individual Differences, 124, pp. 31-34.
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Personality and Individual Differences and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.11.042.