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Health, quality of life and health psychology

Personal Wellbeing Index.

PWI

What it measures
Subjective wellbeing as satisfaction across 7-8 life domains (standard of living, health, achieving in life, relationships, safety, community-connectedness, future security; optional spirituality/religion) aggregating to a 'Subjective Wellbeing' score
Length and format
7 core (+1 optional). 0-10 end-defined satisfaction scale; %SM (percent of scale maximum) scoring (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
30+ languages (manual available in many translations via the International Wellbeing Group)
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
International Wellbeing Group (2013). Personal Wellbeing Index (5th ed.). Melbourne: Australian Centre on Quality of Life, Deakin University.

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