Validation of the flourishing scale and scale of positive and negative experience in a Chinese community sample.

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 vali...

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Main Authors: Kwok Kit Tong, Yuan Yuan Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5542603?pdf=render
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spelling doaj-1a1582f41f0e4ea8840555e1ac1c872b2020-11-25T02:27:28ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032017-01-01128e018161610.1371/journal.pone.0181616Validation of the flourishing scale and scale of positive and negative experience in a Chinese community sample.Kwok Kit TongYuan Yuan WangDiener 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.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5542603?pdf=render
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Validation of the flourishing scale and scale of positive and negative experience in a Chinese community sample.
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title Validation of the flourishing scale and scale of positive and negative experience in a Chinese community sample.
title_short Validation of the flourishing scale and scale of positive and negative experience in a Chinese community sample.
title_full Validation of the flourishing scale and scale of positive and negative experience in a Chinese community sample.
title_fullStr Validation of the flourishing scale and scale of positive and negative experience in a Chinese community sample.
title_full_unstemmed Validation of the flourishing scale and scale of positive and negative experience in a Chinese community sample.
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publishDate 2017-01-01
description 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.
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