Personal Wellbeing Index.
PWI
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).
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- 7 core domain items (+ 1 optional 'life as a whole' item; + optional 8th domain). 0-10 end-defined satisfaction scale (0 no satisfaction - 10 completely satisfied) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Translated into 30+ languages with parallel PWI-Adult, PWI-School (children), and PWI-Intellectual Disability forms
- 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 wellbeing and positive 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 (+1 optional). open with attribution.
More in Wellbeing and positive psychology
- SWLS - Satisfaction With Life Scale
5 items. public-domain / open.
- WHO-5 Well-Being Index
5 items. public-domain / open.
- AFM-2 - Affectometer 2
40 (20 sentence items and 20 adjective items); a 5-item short form exists. open with attribution.
- AHI - Authentic Happiness Inventory
24 items. open with attribution.
- AWE-S - Awe Experience Scale
30 items. open with attribution.
- BNSG-S / BPNS - Basic Need Satisfaction in General Scale
21 items. open with attribution.
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