Well-Being and Its Assessment

Abstract

The chapter begins with a brief outline on well-being and its various facets which are highly correlated with other positive psychology constructs. It then focuses on various factors which are significantly correlated with well-being. Various researches related to already existing scales on well-being are documented. Next it mentions the procedure of development and validation of a new well-being measure that has been developed by the authors on Indian population. Each phase has been explained in detail. The chapter concludes with discussion centring on the newly developed scale and its explanations.