The Development and the Psychometric Properties Investigation of Flourishing Scale for Undergraduate Students
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Flourishing represents the higher level of happiness covered the superficial (pleasure) and deep (meaning and spirit) perspective of happiness. This study was aimed to develop and investigate the psychometric properties (item quality, validity, and reliability) of flourishing scale for undergraduate students. The sample included 450 undergraduate students (year 1-4) who studied in first semester of academic year 2015 from Burapha University.
The result revealed that the flourishing scale consists of 45 items in three domains: 15 items for cognitive flourishing, 15 items for psychological flourishing, and 15 items for social flourishing. Each item is scored on 5-point rating scale. The item analysis showed that all items have good value of content validity index (all items indicated 1.00 CVI values). The item discrimination index were ranged between 0.21 to 0.70. The alpha coefficient of flourishing scale equal to .93. Moreover, the Pearson correlation coefficient between the scores of flourishing scale and Thai Happiness Indicators is .65 (P<.01). The flourishing scale for undergraduate students is a good quality measure which can assess the higher level of happiness (flourishing) in undergraduate student quite well.
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