Overall Subjective Well-being Scale
Reliability & validity
Reliability & validity evidence is syncing from Principia.
Sources
- Ed Diener
Deploy it
The full item bank and survey deployment live in the People Analytics Toolbox (the enterprise survey-item library), with the min-N privacy gate.
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“Internal State Scale (ISS; Bauer et al., 1991) The ISS is a 15-item self-report scale using a visual analogue scale approach. The scale seems to work well even when patients are manic or hypomanic. Patients respond to various items (e.g., “Today I feel irritable,” “Today I feel…”
— Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Groupsmatch 59%
“Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS; Sheehan, 1983) The SDS is a composite of three self-rated items designed to measure the extent to which three major sectors in the patient’s life—work, social life, and family life—are impaired by psychiatric symptoms. Despite its brevity, the…”
— Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Groupsmatch 57%
“The Q-LES-Q is associated in expected ways with measures of symptoms and impairment, and has been shown to detect clinical changes in response to treatment (Rabkin et al., 2000). Quality of Life Index (QLI; Ferrans & Powers, 1985) The QLI is a self-report measure (70 items)…”
— Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Groupsmatch 56%
Resources: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Groups