Steen Happiness Index.
SHI
- What it measures
- Global happiness operationalised across Seligman's three routes - the Pleasant Life (positive emotion), the Engaged Life (flow/absorption), and the Meaningful Life (purpose).
- Length and format
- 20 items. Each item is a set of 5 graded statements (1-5; respondent picks the one describing the past week) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Adapted into PL, PT (Brazil) and other languages
- 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
- Seligman, M. E. P., Steen, T. A., Park, N., & Peterson, C. (2005). Positive psychology progress: Empirical validation of interventions. American Psychologist, 60(5), 410-421.
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