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Wellbeing and positive psychology

PERMA-Profiler.

PERMA-Profiler

What it measures
Flourishing across Seligman's five PERMA pillars - Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment - plus filler/adjacent items (overall well-being, negative emotion, physical health, loneliness, happiness).
Length and format
23 (15 core PERMA items, 3 per pillar, + 8 additional items). 0-10 response scales (frequency/agreement depending on item) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Translated/validated in many languages incl. ES, PT, ZH, IT, JA, FR, TR, AR and others
Normative data
Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Butler, J., & Kern, M. L. (2016). The PERMA-Profiler: A brief multidimensional measure of flourishing. International Journal of Wellbeing, 6(3), 1-48.

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