What is it about?
If you want to use a short measure of well-being (because your participants' time is precious, and/or you are asking them to take the measure lots of times), then this paper helps you to understand what to consider. For example, you need to make sure well-being is still covered properly in the measure, and that you use the correct instructions. We suggest using the D-FAW 10-item scale to be confident that you are capturing well-being properly with a scale that works.
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Why is it important?
Most short measures are adaptations of a long measure, and so may not have been checked as still being useful in their own right. If we are measuring well-being with short measures, we need to know that the measure works just as well in the short-form, and whether we should be interpreting the output differently.
Perspectives
This checks the validity of D-FAW for measuring affective well-being in the moment and in summary, across multiple samples and contexts. It shows that we cannot just assume that shortening a measure from a long version will work in the same way as the long version. We need to check and validate that the measure still works, if it is altered in any way.
Emma Russell
Kingston University
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This page is a summary of: Measuring affective well-being at work using short-form scales: Implications for affective structures and participant instructions, Human Relations, April 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0018726717751034.
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