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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