Questionnaire for Eudaimonic Well-Being.
QEWB
- What it measures
- Eudaimonic well-being in Waterman's personally-expressive/self-realisation sense - self-discovery, development of one's best potentials, sense of purpose/meaning, effortful pursuit of excellence, intense involvement, enjoyment of activities as personally expressive.
- Length and format
- 21 items. 5-pt Likert (0 strongly disagree - 4 strongly agree); 7 items reverse-scored; largely treated as unidimensional (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Adapted into several languages and non-Western samples (e.g. PT, and adolescent non-Western validations)
- 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
- Waterman, A. S., et al. (2010). The Questionnaire for Eudaimonic Well-Being: Psychometric properties, demographic comparisons, and evidence of validity. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 5(1), 41-61.
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