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| Published: December 08, 2021
Development and Validation of Well-being Scale for Japanese People
PhD candidate, Soka University, Tokyo, Japan Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.111.20210904
DOI: 10.25215/0904.111
ABSTRACT
The present paper aims to develop a scale to measure the well-being of the Japanese people. For this purpose, the researcher conducted a preliminary survey on the students in the correspondence course of a university (N= 214) and developed a questionnaire based on the survey. Further, based on that questionnaire, a survey was conducted on Japanese university students (N=894). As a result of exploratory factor analysis, 18 items, and 4 factors were extracted. These 4 factors are: Sense of Fulfillment, Positive Evaluation by Others, Accomplishment, and Sense of Usefulness. The scale is psychometrically robust with high internal consistency (.64 to.81). Pearson’s correlation coefficient was calculated between the resilience scale (Saito & Okayasu, 2010) and the well-being scale. The scale demonstrated convergent validity as a significant positive correlation was observed between the factors of well-being scale and the factors of resilience scale (.10 to .67, p < .01).
Keywords
Well-being, Japan, Sense of Fulfillment, Positive Evaluation by Others, Accomplishment, and Sense of Usefulness
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2021, Nishaat A
Received: September 12, 2021; Revision Received: November 20, 2021; Accepted: December 08, 2021
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.111.20210904
10.25215/0904.111
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Published in Volume 09, Issue 4, October- December, 2021