I am looking for instruments that can be used with Asian university student populations. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
I've found the Ryff Scales of Psychological Well-Being to be very useful. Here's a link to the primary articles:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=ryff+psychological+well+being+scale
Here's a quick overview of the dimensions measured: http://www.liberalarts.wabash.edu/ryff-scales/
Here's the actual assessment formatted for use:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj9gK3b6NrKAhUBXiYKHRZ7AOIQFggqMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.karger.com%2FProdukteDB%2Fkatalogteile%2Fisbn3_8055%2F_98%2F_53%2Fsuppmat%2Fp192-PWB.pdf&usg=AFQjCNF0tPTZW7UvOaEUiiwP_ZHxYcVK2g&sig2=kF6wPOvZGwOGkOODfJxy1A
David,
Thank you very much. It's funny...I just finished reading an abstract of the Ryff scale right before reading your email...pretty cool, huh?
Do you know much about the 5F-Wel scale? I was reviewing it and it looks pretty strong, however, there is a fee to use it which presents some financial challenges.
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Raul,
I'm less familiar with the 5F-Wel scale. It seems to measure a more narrow range of psychological variables. There's controversy concerning whether a 5 or 4 factor model of the data is better:
Myers, J. E., Luecht, R. M., & Sweeney, T. J. (2004). The factor structure of wellness: Reexamining theoretical and empirical models underlying the Wellness Evaluation of Lifestyle (WEL) and the Five-Factor Wel. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 36(4), 194.
Also, one of the factors in the Wel scale seems to be a generic spirituality dimension which might not be too useful.
David,
The authors of the WEL do menion that it's psychometric properties are not as strong as the 5F-WEL scale, thus they recommend to use the 5F-Wel for research purposes.
I'm curious as to what your take is on the value of measuring Wellness (with the 5F-Wel scale) vs. measuring Well-Being with the Ryff scale. From my understanding those two concepts/models are not quite the same so I'm a little bit torn between which one to use for my research on Asian student Wellness (Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, China, and Phillipines). Any thoughts?
Raul,
I like the Ryff scale because it measures a wide range of psychological variables that are associated with well-being. All of the scales are meaningful in research contexts, especially the contexts that interest me.
The 5F-WEL uses factors that are less easily recognized by researchers. The Wheel of Wellness model of well-being seems to be a bit contrived to serve as a theoretical basis. This doesn't mean that the 5F-WEL is not as good as the Ryff scale, it's just not as credible to someone who would have the same biases as I do.
If I were you, I'd look at the items in each instrument and choose the one that best measures the concept of well-being that you're interested in.
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