Development of the short version of the Scales of General Well-Being: the 14-item SGWB

Longo, Ylenio; Coyne, Iain; Joseph, Stephen

Abstract

The Scales of General Well-Being (SGWB, Longo, Coyne, & Joseph, 2017) is a 65-item tool assessing fourteen different constructs. The aim of this study was to develop a short 14-item version. One item was chosen from each of the fourteen scales following inspection of previously-published factor loadings and content validity ratings. In total, 446 responses from U.S residents were collected from Amazon Mechanical Turk. Results supported a factor structure consistent with the long form, as well as good internal consistency. Additionally, general well-being scores of short- and long-form correlated at 0.96 and each item in the short-form was strongly related to its respective long-form scale. The 14-item SGWB offers a brief assessment of well-being based on a novel and comprehensive operational definition, and promises to be of practical use to researchers and clinicians.

Citation

Longo, Y., Coyne, I., & Joseph, S. (2018). Development of the short version of the Scales of General Well-Being: the 14-item SGWB. Personality and Individual Differences, 124, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.11.042

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 25, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Nov 29, 2017
• Publication Date: Apr 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Dec 1, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 30, 2019
• Journal: Personality and Individual Differences
• Print ISSN: 0191-8869
• Electronic ISSN: 1873-3549
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 124
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.11.042
• Keywords: Well-being; Short form; SGWB; Flourishing; Measurement; Scale; Validation; Factor analysis
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/922744
• Publisher URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886917306992
• Contract Date: Dec 1, 2017