Wellbeing and positive psychology.
68 catalogued instruments. Metadata only: no items, no scoring keys.
- AFM-2 - Affectometer 2
40 (20 sentence items and 20 adjective items); a 5-item short form exists. open with attribution. No normative data held.
- AHI - Authentic Happiness Inventory
24 items. open with attribution. No normative data held.
- AWE-S - Awe Experience Scale
30 items. open with attribution. Normative data held.
- BNSG-S / BPNS - Basic Need Satisfaction in General Scale
21 items. open with attribution. No normative data held.
- BPNSFS - Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale
24 (8 per need; 4 satisfaction + 4 frustration each). open with attribution. Normative data held.
- BBC-SWB - BBC Subjective Well-being Scale
24 (modified version). open with attribution. Normative data held.
- ABS - Bradburn Affect Balance Scale
10 (5 PA + 5 NA). public-domain / open. No normative data held.
- Cantril Ladder / CSASS - Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale (Cantril Ladder)
1 (present life); commonly 2 with the future-life rung (life in ~5 years). public-domain / open. Normative data held.
- CLS - Compassionate Love Scale
21 (per target version: close others; strangers/humanity). open with attribution. Normative data held.
- CIT / BIT - Comprehensive / Brief Inventory of Thriving
54 (CIT, 18 subscales x 3 items); 10 (BIT). open with attribution. Normative data held.
- DFS-2 / FSS-2 - Dispositional Flow Scale-2 / Flow State Scale-2
36 (4 per dimension); 9-item short forms (S DFS-2 / S FSS-2, 1 per dimension). copyrighted - commercial. No normative data held.
- DPES - Dispositional Positive Emotions Scale
38 (7 subscales of 4-6 items). open with attribution. Normative data held.
- EPOCH - EPOCH Measure of Adolescent Well-Being
20 (4 per domain). open with attribution. Normative data held.
- FI / SFI - Flourish Index and Secure Flourish Index
10 (Flourish Index) or 12 (Secure Flourish Index); 2 items per domain. open with attribution. No normative data held.
- FS - Flourishing Scale
8 items. open with attribution. Normative data held.
- FKS / FSS - Flow Short Scale (Flow-Kurzskala)
13 (10 flow + 3 worry). open with attribution. Normative data held.
- HM / FHM - Fordyce Happiness Measures (Emotions Questionnaire)
2 components (1 rating item + 3 percentage estimates). public-domain / open. Normative data held.
- GAC - Gratitude Adjective Checklist
3 items. open with attribution. Normative data held.
- GQ-6 - Gratitude Questionnaire - Six Item Form
6 items. open with attribution. Normative data held.
- GRAT / S-GRAT - Gratitude, Resentment and Appreciation Test
44 (original); 16 (S-GRAT / GRAT short form; revised short GRAT-RS also 16). open with attribution. No normative data held.
- HILS - Harmony in Life Scale
5 items. open with attribution. No normative data held.
- HEMA / HEMA-R - Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives for Activities
9 (HEMA: 5 hedonic + 4 eudaimonic); 10 (HEMA-R: 5 + 5). open with attribution. No normative data held.
- I-PANAS-SF - International Positive and Negative Affect Schedule Short Form
10 (5 PA + 5 NA). open with attribution. Normative data held.
- JAWS - Job-related Affective Well-being Scale
30 (long form); 20 (short form). open with attribution. No normative data held.
- LSIA / LSIB / LSIZ - Life Satisfaction Index A
20 (LSIA); 12 (LSIB); 13 (LSIZ short form). public-domain / open. Normative data held.
- MLQ - Meaning in Life Questionnaire
10 (5 Presence + 5 Search). open with attribution. Normative data held.
- MUNSH - Memorial University of Newfoundland Scale of Happiness
24 items. open with attribution. No normative data held.
- MHC-LF - Mental Health Continuum - Long Form
40 items. open with attribution. No normative data held.
- MHC-SF - Mental Health Continuum - Short Form
14 items. open with attribution. Normative data held.
- mDES - modified Differential Emotions Scale
20 (commonly; some versions list ~37 emotion terms). open with attribution. Normative data held.
- MEMS - Multidimensional Existential Meaning Scale
15 (5 per facet). open with attribution. Normative data held.
- MSLSS / BMSLSS - Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale
40 (MSLSS); 6 (BMSLSS brief version). open with attribution. No normative data held.
- MAACL-R - Multiple Affect Adjective Check List - Revised
132 adjectives (respondent checks those that apply). copyrighted - commercial. No normative data held.
- ONS4 - ONS4 Personal Well-being Questions
4 items. public-domain / open. Normative data held.
- OTH - Orientations to Happiness Scale
18 (6 per orientation). open with attribution. Normative data held.
- OHQ / OHI - Oxford Happiness Questionnaire / Oxford Happiness Inventory
29 (OHQ Likert form; 12 items reverse-coded). OHI = 29 multiple-choice item-sets.. copyrighted - author permission. No normative data held.
- PoM - Peace of Mind Scale
7 items. open with attribution. No normative data held.
- PHI - Pemberton Happiness Index
21 (11 remembered-well-being + 10 experienced-well-being items). open with attribution. Normative data held.
- PERMA-Profiler - PERMA-Profiler
23 (15 core PERMA items, 3 per pillar, + 8 additional items). open with attribution. Normative data held.
- PWI - Personal Wellbeing Index
7 core domain items (+ 1 optional 'life as a whole' item; + optional 8th domain). open with attribution. Normative data held.
- PGCMS - Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale
17 (revised); 22 (original). public-domain / open. No normative data held.
- PANAS - Positive and Negative Affect Schedule
20 (10 PA + 10 NA). open with attribution. Normative data held.
- PANAS-X - Positive and Negative Affect Schedule - Expanded Form
60 items. open with attribution. Normative data held.
- P Scale - Positivity Scale
8 items. open with attribution. Normative data held.
- PRLQ - Psychologically Rich Life Questionnaire
17 (a 12-item short version is also validated). open with attribution. No normative data held.
- PIL - Purpose in Life Test
20 (Part A attitude scale; the full test also has open-ended Parts B and C). copyrighted - commercial. No normative data held.
- QEWB - Questionnaire for Eudaimonic Well-Being
21 items. open with attribution. No normative data held.
- RLSS - Riverside Life Satisfaction Scale
6 items. open with attribution. No normative data held.
- PWB / SPWB - Ryff Scales of Psychological Well-Being
84 (long); 54 (medium); 42; 18 (short, 3 items/dimension); a 14-item per-scale research version also exists. copyrighted - author permission. No normative data held.
- SCBCS - Santa Clara Brief Compassion Scale
5 items. open with attribution. No normative data held.
- SWLS - Satisfaction With Life Scale
5 items. public-domain / open. Normative data held.
- SBI - Savoring Beliefs Inventory
24 (8 per temporal orientation; 4 positive + 4 reverse-coded each). open with attribution. Normative data held.
- SPANE - Scale of Positive and Negative Experience
12 (6 positive + 6 negative). open with attribution. Normative data held.
- SONG - Seeking of Noetic Goals test
20 items. copyrighted - commercial. No normative data held.
- SWB (Keyes) - Social Well-Being Scales
33 (full); 15 (brief, 3 items/dimension as embedded in the MHC). open with attribution. No normative data held.
- SoMe - Sources of Meaning and Meaning in Life Questionnaire
151 items. mixed. No normative data held.
- SWBS - Spiritual Well-Being Scale
20 (10 Religious + 10 Existential). copyrighted - commercial. No normative data held.
- SHI - Steen Happiness Index
20 items. open with attribution. No normative data held.
- SCWBS - Stirling Children's Wellbeing Scale
15 (12 wellbeing + 3 social-desirability). open with attribution. Normative data held.
- SLSS - Students' Life Satisfaction Scale
7 (original 1991 version). public-domain / open. No normative data held.
- SHS - Subjective Happiness Scale
4 items. open with attribution. Normative data held.
- SVS - Subjective Vitality Scale
7 (original); 6-item refined version widely used. open with attribution. Normative data held.
- TSWLS - Temporal Satisfaction With Life Scale
15 (5 past, 5 present, 5 future). public-domain / open. No normative data held.
- Thriving (Porath/Spreitzer) - Thriving at Work Scale
10 (5 Vitality + 5 Learning). open with attribution. No normative data held.
- VIA-IS - Values in Action Inventory of Strengths
240 (VIA-IS full, 10 per strength); 120 (VIA-IS-R / VIA-120 revised); 96-item revised; 72-item brief. copyrighted - commercial. No normative data held.
- WEMWBS / SWEMWBS - Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale
14 (WEMWBS); 7 (SWEMWBS). copyrighted - author permission. No normative data held.
- WHO-5 - WHO-5 Well-Being Index
5 items. public-domain / open. Normative data held.
- Workplace PERMA-Profiler - Workplace PERMA-Profiler
23 (work-contextualised PERMA-Profiler). open with attribution. No normative data held.