Personal Wellbeing Index.
PWI
Subjective wellbeing as satisfaction across 7-8 life domains (standard of living, health, achieving in life, relationships, safety, community-connectedness, future security; optional spirituality/religion) aggregating to a 'Subjective Wellbeing' score
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- 7 core (+1 optional). 0-10 end-defined satisfaction scale; %SM (percent of scale maximum) scoring (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- 30+ languages (manual available in many translations via the International Wellbeing Group)
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- International Wellbeing Group (2013). Personal Wellbeing Index (5th ed.). Melbourne: Australian Centre on Quality of Life, Deakin University.
Measures you can take in health, quality of life and health psychology
These are measures in the same field, which you can take here. This entry does not describe them.
Also catalogued under
The same instrument filed in another domain of this catalogue.
- PWI - Personal Wellbeing Index
7 core domain items (+ 1 optional 'life as a whole' item; + optional 8th domain). open with attribution.
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