Abstract
The present research was conducted to develop and validate an
indigenous self-report measure of happiness, named as Happiness Scale
(HS). A conceptual referent theory of happiness (CRT) proposed by
Rojas (2005) guided the development of HS. This happiness scale
requires cognitive evaluations only. Items were empirically generated
with the help of psychologists and young adults. A sample of 800 young
adults (400 men and 400 women, with age range 19 to 34 years) from
various educational institutes of Lahore and Gujranwala were recruited.
The factor analysis was used to determine construct validity of HS, which
resulted in 32-items scale with eight factors. These eight factors were
labeled (a) Cheerfulness (b) Satisfaction (c) Virtue (d) Familial
attachment (e) Self-fulfillment (f) Sociability (g) Altruism and (h) Selfefficacy. The alpha coefficient (α = .90) and item-total correlation
(ranging from r = .36 to .66, p<.01) supported the high internal
consistency of the HS. Moreover, the convergent and discriminant
validity was also assessed by correlating HS with Oxford Happiness
Questionnaire (OHQ - Hills & Argyle, 2001) and with the Siddiqui Shah
Depression Scale (SSDS - Siddiqui& Shah, 1997) respectively, to
establish construct validity. A significant positive correlation of .61 of
HS, p< .01 was found with OHQ and significant negative correlation
coefficient of -.54, p< .01 with SSDS, which provided strong evidence
for the construct validity of HS. Further implications of the study were
discussed.
Uzma Qayyum, Iffat Batool, Shah Rukh Tariq. (2020) Development and Validation of Happiness Scale for Young Adults, Journal of Behavioural Sciences, Volume-30, Issue-2.
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