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A Measure of Subjective Happiness: Preliminary Reliability and Construct Validation
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- Authors
- Lyubomirsky, S., & Lepper, H. S.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Riverside (US)
- ORCID
- Lyubomirsky, Sonja
- Venue
- Social Indicators Research
- Published
- 1999-02
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 137-155
- ISSN
- 0303-8300 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-0921
- OpenAlex
- W1800216240
- Cited by
- 4,071
- References
- 52
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- FWCI
- 4.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Social Indicators Research (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Keywords
- subjective happiness, Subjective Happiness Scale, happiness measurement, scale development, reliability statistics, construct validity, convergent validity, discriminant validity, cross-cultural validation, older adults, students, community-dwelling adults
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