Navigation auf zora.uzh.ch

Search ZORA

ZORA (Zurich Open Repository and Archive)

Short form of the orientations to happiness questionnaire for the german-speaking countries

Ruch, Willibald; Martínez-Martí, María Luisa; Heintz, Sonja; Brouwers, Symen A (2014). Short form of the orientations to happiness questionnaire for the german-speaking countries. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 73(4):225-234.

Abstract

This paper addresses the development of a 9-item Short Form of the Orientations to Happiness (OTH) Questionnaire (Peterson, Park, & Seligman, 2005) for German-speaking countries. This questionnaire measures three ways to happiness: life of pleasure, life of engagement, and life of meaning. In Experiment 1 (replication sample, N = 1,336), we replicated the three-factor structure found in the 18-item Parent Form. In Experiment 2 (validation sample, N = 222), we again replicated the three-factor structure, which showed a good fit to the data. The coefficients of congruence between the three factors in Experiments 1 and 2 were very high (.94–.98). The correlations between the corresponding scales of the Short and Parent Form were high (.49 – .91). The three scales of the Short Form had acceptable internal consistency. The pattern of relationships of both the OTH Short Form and Parent Form with sociodemographic variables, with the endorsement of prototypical behaviors related to the three orientations to happiness, and with meaning in life were very similar for both OTH forms.

Additional indexing

Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Psychology
Dewey Decimal Classification:150 Psychology
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > General Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:General Psychology
Language:English
Date:2014
Deposited On:31 Dec 2014 09:40
Last Modified:12 Nov 2024 02:37
Publisher:Hans Huber
ISSN:1421-0185
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1024/1421-0185/a000141
Full text not available from this repository.

Metadata Export

Statistics

Citations

Dimensions.ai Metrics
12 citations in Web of Science®
13 citations in Scopus®
Google Scholar™

Altmetrics

Authors, Affiliations, Collaborations

Similar Publications