Open AccessValidation of the flourishing scale and scale of positive and negative experience in a Chinese community sample
Author(s) -
Kwok Kit Tong,
Yuan Yuan Wang
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
plos one
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99
H-Index - 332
ISSN - 1932-6203
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0181616
Subject(s) - flourishing , scale (ratio) , diener , psychology , sample (material) , german , social psychology , clinical psychology , life satisfaction , geography , chemistry , cartography , archaeology , chromatography
Diener and colleagues (2010) created concise assessment tools to study flourishing and Positive and Negative emotions. The two scales had been validated with English-speaking and German-speaking participants. Nevertheless, its applicability for Chinese is not well established. The current study validated the two scales in traditional Chinese, using a randomly selected community sample. Both the flourishing scale and the Positive and Negative Emotions scale showed an adequate fit. We also found that gender and social status had an influence on flourishing.