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Wellbeing and positive psychology

Social Well-Being Scales.

SWB (Keyes)

What it measures
Social well-being - the positive appraisal of one's circumstances and functioning in society, across 5 dimensions: Social Integration, Social Acceptance, Social Contribution, Social Actualization, Social Coherence.
Length and format
33 (full); 15 (brief, 3 items/dimension as embedded in the MHC). Likert agreement (commonly 7-pt in the full form) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Adapted into several languages incl. ES, PT, NL and others
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
Keyes, C. L. M. (1998). Social well-being. Social Psychology Quarterly, 61(2), 121-140.

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