Hello
This site briefly discusses questionnaires including the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire:
http://www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/science-of-happiness/measuring-happiness/
This is also a comparison of various questionnaires of wellbeing:
Taggart, F., & Stewart-Brown, S. A Review of Questionnaires Designed to Measure Mental Wellbeing.
https://www.rsph.org.uk/filemanager/root/site_assets/membership/members_area/a_review_of_questionnaires_designed_to_measure_mental_wellbeing.pdf
The authors acknowledge that there are equal numbers of negative and positive items in the Oxford Scale, but happiness can be indicated by not agreeing with the negative items.
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Mary
As Kashdan (2004) explains it in the following paper, that scale is not a good measure of happiness. For example, it's items measure variables such as extraversion that are related to happiness.
Kashdan, T. B. (2004). The assessment of subjective well-being (Issues raised by the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire). Personality and Individual Differences, 36, 1225–1232.
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