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Wellbeing and positive psychology

Pemberton Happiness Index.

PHI

What it measures
Integrative well-being combining remembered well-being (general, hedonic, eudaimonic, social) with experienced well-being (positive/negative events of the previous day).
Length and format
21 (11 remembered-well-being + 10 experienced-well-being items). Remembered items on 0-10 agreement; experienced items yes/no (events yesterday); combined into a single well-being index (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Built in 7 languages from the start; later universal Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish (Argentina) validations 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
Hervas, G., & Vazquez, C. (2013). Construction and validation of a measure of integrative well-being in seven languages: the Pemberton Happiness Index. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 11, 66.

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