Authentic Happiness Inventory.
AHI
- What it measures
- Subjective happiness across the pleasant, engaged, and meaningful life (the Seligman trichotomy); designed for repeated measurement in positive-psychology interventions.
- Length and format
- 24 items. Each item is a set of 5 statements (1-5) describing feelings over the past week (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Adapted into several languages (e.g. FA/Persian, PT and others)
- 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
- Peterson, C. (2005). Authentic Happiness Inventory. University of Pennsylvania (Authentic Happiness website). See also Disabato et al. (2016) psychometric review.
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