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Wellbeing and positive psychology

Flourish Index and Secure Flourish Index.

FI / SFI

What it measures
Human flourishing across five domains (happiness and life satisfaction; mental and physical health; meaning and purpose; character and virtue; close social relationships) plus a sixth domain of financial and material stability in the Secure Flourish Index.
Length and format
10 (Flourish Index) or 12 (Secure Flourish Index); 2 items per domain. 0-10 rating scales (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Fielded in 20+ languages in the Global Flourishing Study, incl. ES, PT, ZH, JA, AR, ID, SW, PL, TR
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
VanderWeele, T.J. (2017). On the promotion of human flourishing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(31), 8148-8156. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1702996114 ; Weziak-Bialowolska, D., McNeely, E., & VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). Flourish Index and Secure Flourish Index - validation in workplace settings. Cogent Psychology, 6(1), 1598926.

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1702996114

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