All three instruments (SWLS,SPANE,Flourishing scale-previously called psychological well-being) have been developed by Ed.Diener et al.
Most researchers use the SWLS and PANAS or Bradburn's Affect balance scale to measure Subjective Well-Being (SWB). However, I decided upon to use the SPANE after reading a number of articles (including an article by Ed.Diener himself) - because the SPANE has been constructed keeping in view the limitations of PANAS and the Affect Balance Scale.
Am I right in my decision? Or should I stick to using PANAS?
Another question that I have in my mind is, should I also use the Flourising Scale as an additional measure of subjective well-being?
The Flourishing Scale is a brief 8-item summary measure of the respondent's self-perceived success in important areas such as relationships, self-esteem, purpose, and optimism. The scale provides a single psychological well-being score.
Or will the SWLS and SPANE(or PANAS or Affect Balance Scale) suffice?
Looking forward to knowing the viewpoints of my fellow ResearchGate members.
First of all I would like to clarify the concept of Subjective Well-being. We use the concept of emoΆonal well‐being as synonym for subjective well‐being. EmoΆonal/subjecΆve well‐being
includes the presence of positive affects, the absence of negative affects and the presence of satisfaction with life and with life domains.
We prefer the term emotional well‐being, as other forms of well‐being we study (psychological well‐being, social well‐being) are also subjective experiences. So we wanted to use a concept that discriminates subjective well‐being from these other concepts. We chose emotional well‐being as it refers to emotions as well as to evaluations of life in emotional terms. (Gerben Westerhof).
Subjective Wellbeing is accepted to be a broad concept, to have a cognitive and an affective dimension, separated and moderately correlated. The construct includes variables such as Satisfaction with Life as a Whole or in Specific Domains, and Positive Affect and Negative Affect (Arthaud-Day, Rode, Mooney & Near, 2005; Diener & Ryan, 2009; Galinha & Pais-Ribeiro, 2008).
So when You go for selecting a tool to assess the subjective/emotional well-being, keep it in mind that a its items should cover all the three dimensions-Positive Affect, Negative Affect and satisfaction for a particular field or life satisfaction.
All above tools are not measuring the subjective well-being as defined...
thank you for your valuable insight.
but SWLS (satisfaction with life scale) and PANAS(Positive and Negative Affect scale) or SPANE (Scale of positive and negative experience) or Bradburn's Affect Balance scale is doing just the same, isn't it? Measuring life satisfaction in general and positive and negative affect , as well?
then how come the above tools are measuring subjective well-being as defined?
You can also use the combination of PANAS (Positive and Negative Affect scale) & SWLS (satisfaction with life scale) for Subjective well-being.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/44680851/SIS_-_Damayanti_July_2011.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1492853204&Signature=t4mGSI8TeLLSYShCwb0%2FTefJduk%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DDutta_D._Basu_J._and_Bandyopadhyay_G._20.pdf#page=29
Regard,
Hello everyone, may I ask... if I do combine SWLS and SPANE / PANAS, how do you suggest that I compute their score? Do I just add everything and average, or do I some factor analysis? And what kind of factor analysis (e.g. confirmatory, exploratory)?
Good day, Dr. Bandyopadhyay! May I ask how did you score / measure SWB? May I ask what analysis did you use? Thank you :)
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