Questionnaire for Eudaimonic Well-Being (QEWB)
Psychology: Mental HealthReliability: alpha 0.863 sample items
About this scale
A 21-item measure of eudaimonic well-being — self-discovery, perceived development of one's best potentials, sense of purpose, intense involvement, and engagement in personally expressive activities.
Sample item(s)
“I believe I have discovered who I really am”
“I feel that I know what I am meant to do in life”
“I find a lot of the things I do are personally expressive”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.86. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Free for academic use.
Source & citation
Waterman, A. S., Schwartz, S. J., Zamboanga, B. L., Ravert, R. D., Williams, M. K., Bede Agocha, V., Kim, S. Y., & Brent Donnellan, M. (2010): The Questionnaire for Eudaimonic Well-Being. Journal of Positive Psychology, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 41–61.
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