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

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 124, Issue , 2018, Pages 31-34

  Longo, Ylenio ^a   Coyne, Iain ^b   Joseph, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Flourishing; Measurement; Scale; SGWB; Short form; Validation; Well being

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONTENT VALIDITY; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; RESIDENT; SCIENTIST; VALIDATION PROCESS; WELLBEING;

EID: 85035360535     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.11.042     Document Type: Article

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