Wellbeing and positive psychology.

General happiness as the balance of positive over negative affect, structured around ten qualities of happiness (including confluence, optimism, self-esteem, social support, freedom and energy).

Subjective happiness across the pleasant, engaged, and meaningful life (the Seligman trichotomy); designed for repeated measurement in positive-psychology interventions.

State awe across six factors - Altered time perception, Self-diminishment, Connectedness, Vastness, Physical sensations, and Need for accommodation - capturing a specific awe episode.

Satisfaction of the three Self-Determination Theory needs in life generally - Autonomy (7 items), Competence (6 items), Relatedness (8 items).

Self-Determination Theory's three basic psychological needs in BOTH satisfaction and frustration - Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness (6 subscales: each need x satisfaction/frustration).

General subjective well-being across three dimensions - Psychological well-being, Physical health and well-being, and Relationships.

Psychological well-being as the balance of two independent dimensions - Positive Affect (5 items) and Negative Affect (5 items); the difference is the 'affect balance'.

Global life evaluation - respondent rates current (and often anticipated future) life on a self-anchored ladder where the top is the best possible life and the bottom the worst possible life.

Compassionate (altruistic) love - care, concern, tenderness, and orientation toward supporting others, measured toward close others and/or toward humanity/strangers.

Thriving / psychological well-being across 18 subscales (CIT) spanning relationships, engagement, mastery/competence, autonomy, meaning, optimism, subjective well-being, etc.; the BIT is a brief overall thriving/well-being screen.

Flow (optimal experience) across Csikszentmihalyi's 9 dimensions - Challenge-Skill Balance, Action-Awareness Merging, Clear Goals, Unambiguous Feedback, Total Concentration, Sense of Control, Loss of Self-Consciousness, Transformation of Time, Autotelic Experience.

Trait tendencies to experience seven discrete positive emotions - Joy, Contentment, Pride, Love, Compassion, Amusement, and Awe.

Five positive psychological characteristics that foster adolescent flourishing - Engagement, Perseverance, Optimism, Connectedness, and Happiness.

Human flourishing across five domains (happiness and life satisfaction; mental and physical health; meaning and purpose; character and virtue; close social relationships) plus a sixth domain of financial and material stability in the Secure Flourish Index.

Self-perceived success/flourishing in core areas - positive relationships, self-esteem, purpose, optimism, engagement; a single overall psychological-well-being (social-psychological prosperity) score.

Flow experience as 2 components (fluency of performance; absorption by activity) measured by 10 flow items, plus 3 'worry/anxiety' items about the situation.

Current happiness via two parts - (1) a single global 11-point happiness rating, and (2) the estimated percentage of time one feels happy / unhappy / neutral (the two summing to 100%).

Gratitude as an emotion/mood/disposition via three affect adjectives - grateful, thankful, appreciative; time frame adjustable (now / past weeks / in general).

Dispositional gratitude - the proneness to recognise and respond with grateful emotion to others' benevolence and to life's positives; unidimensional grateful disposition.

Dispositional gratitude across three facets - Lack of a Sense of Deprivation (low resentment/entitlement), Simple Appreciation (of simple pleasures), and Appreciation of Others (and expressing it).

Harmony in life - a sense of balance, flexibility, and being in tune with the world and one's circumstances; a complement to the goal-attainment framing of life satisfaction (SWLS).

Orientation to pursue hedonia (pleasure, comfort, enjoyment) versus eudaimonia (authenticity, excellence, growth, meaning) as motives for engaging in daily activities.

Brief, cross-culturally robust Positive Affect and Negative Affect (5 PA + 5 NA items selected for international invariance).

Affective well-being specifically at work, mapped on the circumplex dimensions of pleasure-displeasure and arousal; emotions experienced on the job over the past 30 days.

Life satisfaction and psychological wellbeing in later life across five components: zest versus apathy, resolution and fortitude, congruence between desired and achieved goals, positive self-concept, mood tone.

Two dimensions of meaning in life - Presence of Meaning (the extent meaning is currently felt) and Search for Meaning (active striving to find/augment meaning).

Avowed happiness in older adults, modelled as positive affect, negative affect, positive experience and negative experience.

Comprehensive positive mental health - emotional well-being (7 items) + the 6 Ryff psychological-well-being dimensions (18 items) + the 5 Keyes social-well-being dimensions (15 items).

Positive mental health on three facets - Emotional well-being (3 items), Social well-being (5 items), Psychological well-being (6 items); supports a categorical diagnosis of flourishing / moderate / languishing.

Frequency of 10 positive and 10 negative discrete emotions over a recent period; used to compute the positivity ratio (positive-to-negative emotion balance) in Fredrickson's broaden-and-build research.

Meaning in life as three distinct facets - Comprehension (life makes sense), Purpose (having direction/goals), and Mattering (one's existence is significant).

Domain-specific life satisfaction in children and adolescents across five domains: family, friends, school, living environment, self.

State and trait affect across 5 scales - Anxiety, Depression, Hostility, Positive Affect, Sensation Seeking; summary scores Dysphoria (A+D+H) and PASS (PA+SS).

The UK Office for National Statistics four personal-well-being questions - life satisfaction, worthwhileness (eudaimonia), happiness yesterday, and anxiety yesterday.

Three routes/motivational orientations to happiness - Pleasure (hedonism), Engagement (flow), and Meaning (eudaimonia); a dispositional profile rather than a happiness level.

Broad subjective happiness / psychological well-being - a compound of positive affect, life satisfaction, and self-esteem-related content.

Peace of mind - an internal state of peacefulness, harmony, and low-arousal positive affect (an East-Asian conception of well-being emphasising inner calm rather than high-arousal excitement).

Integrative well-being combining remembered well-being (general, hedonic, eudaimonic, social) with experienced well-being (positive/negative events of the previous day).

Flourishing across Seligman's five PERMA pillars - Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment - plus filler/adjacent items (overall well-being, negative emotion, physical health, loneliness, happiness).

Subjective wellbeing deconstructed into satisfaction with life domains - Standard of living, Health, Achieving in life, Relationships, Safety, Community connectedness, Future security (the 7 core domains; an optional 8th 'spirituality/religion' exists).

Morale in older adults across three factors: agitation, attitude toward own ageing, lonely dissatisfaction.

Trait/state affect on two broad orthogonal dimensions - Positive Affect (PA) and Negative Affect (NA); 10 PA and 10 NA mood-descriptor items.

General PA and NA (the original higher-order dimensions) PLUS 11 specific lower-order affect scales: Fear, Hostility, Guilt, Sadness, Joviality, Self-Assurance, Attentiveness, Shyness, Fatigue, Serenity, Surprise.

Positivity / positive orientation - the basic dispositional tendency to view oneself, life, and the future favourably (the latent core shared by self-esteem, life satisfaction, and optimism).

Psychological richness as a third dimension of the good life alongside happiness and meaning: a life full of varied, interesting and perspective-changing experiences.

Degree of experienced meaning and purpose in life vs existential vacuum (operationalising Frankl's logotherapy / 'noogenic neurosis' concept).

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.

Global life satisfaction, designed to avoid the SWLS's confounding with affect and its past-focused item wording.

Eudaimonic psychological well-being across 6 dimensions: Autonomy, Environmental Mastery, Personal Growth, Positive Relations with Others, Purpose in Life, Self-Acceptance.

Dispositional compassion - the tendency to feel and act with compassion toward others, especially those who are suffering (a brief prosocial-emotion well-being correlate).

Global cognitive judgement of life satisfaction (the cognitive component of subjective well-being); unidimensional - a reflective appraisal of life as a whole rather than momentary affect.

Beliefs about one's capacity to savour positive experiences across three temporal orientations - Anticipating (future), Savoring the Moment (present), and Reminiscing (past).

Frequency of positive and negative feelings over the past 4 weeks; 6 positive + 6 negative items (each set mixes 3 general and 3 specific feelings). Yields SPANE-P, SPANE-N, and an affect-balance score (SPANE-B).

The strength of motivation to find meaning and purpose in life (the active-striving complement to the Purpose in Life Test's achieved-meaning focus).

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.

26 sources of meaning grouped into five dimensions (vertical self-transcendence, horizontal self-transcendence, self-actualisation, order, wellbeing and relatedness), plus meaningfulness and crisis of meaning as separate outcome scales.

Spiritual well-being across two subscales - Religious Well-Being (relationship with God / a higher power) and Existential Well-Being (life purpose and satisfaction, not religiously framed).

Global happiness operationalised across Seligman's three routes - the Pleasant Life (positive emotion), the Engaged Life (flow/absorption), and the Meaningful Life (purpose).

Positive emotional and psychological well-being in children (about 8-15) - a positively framed child well-being measure covering positive outlook and positive affect (with a social-desirability sub-scale).

Global (context-free) life satisfaction in children and young adolescents; unidimensional.