Authors: Viren Swami
Publish Date: 2007/10/16
Volume: 88, Issue: 2, Pages: 347-353
Abstract
The Subjective Happiness Scale Lyubomirsky and Lepper Social Indicators Research 46 137–155 1999 is a brief measure for assessing subjective happiness The reliability and validity of the Malay version of the Subjective Happiness Scale was investigated in a community sample of 290 Chinese and 227 Malays in Malaysia Results showed that the Malay Subjective Happiness Scale has excellent internal consistency a unitary structure and stability over a 30day period and across ethnic groups Moreover the Malay version of the scale exhibited good convergent validity with singleitem happiness scales The availability of the Malay Subjective Happiness Scale is expected to facilitate the examination of happiness in Malayspeaking populations
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