Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS-X) The PANAS-X looks at positive and negative emotions at the time of taking the assessment. This assessment consists of two 10-item scales to assess positive and negative affect (Watson & Clark, 1994). The assessment consists of 60-items, which measures specific affects including fear, sadness, guilt, hostility, shyness, fatigue, surprise, joviality, self-assurance, attentiveness, and serenity (Watson & Clark, 1994). Through different analyses it is seen that this assessment is excellent at measuring the major dimensions of mood experience (Watson & Clark, 1994). This was found through test-retest reliability in which 1,176 participants were tested and found that the PANAS-X scales strongly correlate …show more content…
The Ryff Psychological Well-being scales focuses on self-acceptance, establishment of quality ties to others, a sense of autonomy in action and thought, the ability to manage complex environments to suit personal needs and values, the pursuit of meaningful goals and sense of purpose in life, and continued growth and development as a person (Seifert, 2005). The assessment consists of either 84 or 53 questions that reflect the six areas of psychological well-being (stated in previous sentence) (Seifert, 2005). The newest version has 42 questions or statements (Abbott, Ploubidis, Huppert, Kuh, Wadsworth, & Croudance, 2006). The statements are rated on a scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to 6 (strongly agree). The assessment is scored by comparing high scores to low scores on each subscale The assessment is valid and reliable due to the truth of the results. The assessment has been seen to show high internal consistency and test-retest reliability and convergent and discriminant validity (Ryff & Keyes, 1995). There are positive correlations with this study and their results. This means that their results are similar to other well-being scales. A limitation of the assessment is that it is a self-reported assessment and students may respond in ways that are socially desirable rather than honestly (Seifert, …show more content…
Another score that looks high is personal growth. You may see yourself as growing and expanding, you are open to new experiences, and see improvement in self and behaviors over time (Ryff, 1989). According to Abbott et. al. (2006), your environmental mastery has the exact same score as the mean in their study. Lastly, your self-acceptance score was much higher through comparison to the Abbott et. al. (2006) study. This means that you seem to possess a positive attitude towards your self and acknowledge and accept multiple aspects of yourself including the good and bad qualities (Ryff,
For approaches to happiness, I score the following: Good life I score 4, because I connect my strength, love, friendship and parenting to
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Wellbeing was first discussed as authentic happiness by Seligman. In the concept of authentic happiness he discussed the components of positive emotions, meaning in life and engagement. He had described these components to be very much essential in bringing in authentic happiness which he called as wellbeing. It takes the shape of subjective wellbeing, when it becomes subjective to a person’s experience alone. The concrete aspects of health and wealth may stay away from this, when a person’s subjectivity is concerned (Kammann, 1983). Over the years as we see in other studies, this concept has changed to subjective wellbeing being defined on the basis of all the areas of life, wherein the objective factors of wealth and health, and
The main concepts of mental wellbeing are about how an individual may think and feel on a daily, weekly, or even monthly basis. How they react and cope with these thoughts and feelings, can hugely impact on their mental state of wellbeing. Different factors can contribute to a person’s mental wellbeing such as their personal relationships with others, social connections, the environment around them and their physical health. An individual must be able to identify and be confident enough to adapt to changes occurring in their life to maintain a good state of mental wellbeing. (Mind, 2016).
The PANAS has proved to be effective at differentiating between depression and anxiety, even though it has shown that using self-report measures may make it difficult to discriminate between the two constructs. One suggestion of why it is that way is due to most existing self-report scales for both...
The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) was developed as a measure of subjective, overall wellbeing. The SWLS draws on existing understandings of subjective wellbeing, and the scale has been specifically designed to measure the cognitive evaluation of satisfaction. It was established from 48 self-reported statements, including items regarding life satisfaction, and positive and negative affect. Through factor analysis, researchers were able to detect these three factors, and remove the items that corresponded to the affect components, leaving ten statements, which were reduced to five to account for similarities in wording. It claims to allow respondents to cognitively evaluate multiple domains of life they may value, and for them to independently weigh these during response. This measure differs from past measures of subjective wellbeing with existing assessment commonly measuring affect (positive and or negative) and emotion, and not overall life satisfaction (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin,
Numerous theories have been written on human needs and motivation, focusing on psychological and social needs. The Self-Determination Theory holds that there are three basic human needs that must be met for self-esteem and positive well-being: autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Autonomy refers to an individual’s sense of choice, initiative, and ownership of one’s behavior; engaging in meaningful and interesting activities is necessary to satisfy this need. Competence is an individual’s sense of power over his or her environment; proficiency in task performance promotes a child’s involvement and determination in task completion. Relatedness is a sense of being connected to valuable people and one’s society; this attachment to others establishes a base for exploring one’s environment. Fulfillment of these needs at all developmental stages relates to a child’s positive emotional affect and results in natural curiosity, desire for learning, and self-controlled behavior. According to researchers Browder, Wood, Test, Karvonen, and Algozzine, “individuals who scored higher on a measure of self-determination than their peers had more positive adult outcomes” (2004, p. 233). Failure to fulfill these needs in children results in poor outcomes, such as reduced engagement, inferior performance, higher dropout rates, difficult behaviors, apathy, distress, and poorer assimilation within social groups (Poulsen, Rodger, & Ziviani, 2006, p. 79; Ryan & Deci, 2000, p. 68; Veronneau, Koestner, & Abela, 2005, p. 280; Wehmeyer, 2004).
The Values and Motives Questionnaire (VMQ) manual explained two types of reliability that they utilized to assess the consistency of the assessment: test-retest reliability and homogeneity reliability (Psytech, 2016). The test-retest reliability assesses compares the scales that occurred at two or more separate testings, whereas the homogeneity assesses if the items within the test are similar in their ability to test the target attribute. (Drummond, Sheperis, & Jones, 2016). The two types of validity the VMQ manual acknowledged wereconstruct and criterion validity (Psytech, 2016). Construct validity is an assessment that tests if the target attribute is effectively being measured. The test needs to reflect meaning and be consistent with other established tests measuring the same attribute. Criterion validity measures the tests ability to predict the target attribute successfully, this is especially important since most assessment are given in order to predict wellness or behaviors (Drummond et al., 2016). The primary reliability assessment used to portray reliability in the manual is the homogeneity. It was reported that all of the scales have a strong measurement, except for achievement and infrequency (Psychnet, 2016). This means that of all the sub-categories that are in the VMQ are asking questions that are similar in their measurement of the target category. For validity, the inter-correlations were assessed. The results indicated that the sub-scales did not directly impact each other and that they did measure the specific sub-scales they were intending to measure (Psychnet, 2016).
The highest score was in environmental wellness. I am extremely aware of the benefits that being environmentally conscious will have on our lives and the lives of the future. This
Here I had a score of 0. Low scores tend to indicate that I am conventional, have narrow interests, down to earth and am uncreative. This illustrates that I prefer traditional and familiar experiences. As I am low in openness to experience it tends to mean that I enjoy following routines,
Well-being is a combination of physical, mental, emotional and social factors. It is seen, as a stable state of being satisfied with one’s self and their life that doesn’t fluctuate due to a single even, person, or feeling (Begley and Begun, 2000). Well-being consists of eight dimensions, emotional, environmental, financial, intellectual, occupational, physical, social and spiritual (Begley and Begun, 2000). For the purpose of this study we are going to be looking at the emotional and occupational sides of well-being. Emotional state of well being is the ability to recognize, understand and express a full range of emotions and channel our emotions into healthy behaviours that satisfy our personal and social goals (Ryff, 1985). Occupational is achieving personal satisfaction and enrichment in one’s life through work, education, and personal goals and passions (Ryff, 1985).
In my paper I will clarify the seven measurements of wellbeing and how we require every one and how they identify with us. These measurements are: Social Wellness, Emotional Wellness, Spiritual Wellness, Environmental Wellness, Occupational Wellness, Intellectual Wellness and Physical Wellness. Every one of the measurements of health have critical impact in our day by day living with how we converse with individuals, to how we think rationally. My paper will have the capacity to clarify measurements of wellbeing altogether.
Other strengths include being self-confident, conscientious, diligent and determined. It was interesting to see my lower scores as well; the lowest average score was sensitivity (3.2), followed closely by self-assuredness and perception and empathy. Although I consider myself sensitive, I believe the sense of sensitivity does not apply as often towards others I interact with. For example, I often speak my mind and voice my opinion with little thought of the consequence or impact it might have on those around me. Thus, sensitivity is not one of my existing strengths, but rather an opportunity for growth. I also found it interesting to note how I scored significantly lower in the human skill, and higher in technical, which I did not expect. This score likely correlates with my score form the LTQ, which identified room for improvement in relating with