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Convergent validity of the Depression-Happiness Scale with measures of depression

✍ Scribed by Stephen Joseph; Christopher Alan Lewis; Charles Olsen

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Weight: 299 KB
Volume: 52
Category: Article
ISSN: 0021-9762
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199609)52:5<551::aid-jclp9>3.0.co;2-q

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✦ Synopsis

In recent years, the study of subjective well-being (SWB) has attracted much research interest. One recent operational definition of SWB is the McGreal and Joseph (1993) Depression-Happiness Scale. The aim of the present research was to investigate the convergent validity of the Depression-Happiness Scale with several other well established measures of depressive symptomatology. Subjects were 194 undergraduate students attending the University of Ulster. Lower scores on the Depression-Happiness Scale, indicating a higher frequency of negative thoughts and feelings and a lower frequency of positive thoughts and feelings, were associated with higher scores on the Beck Depression Inventory, the Self-Rating Depression Scale, and the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. These data provide further evidence for the convergent validity of the Depression-Happiness Scale. 0

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