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Protocol - Personal Well-being index - Child

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Description

The Personal Wellbeing Index-School Children (PWI-SC) is a self-administered scale that includes seven items of happiness corresponding to seven life domains: standard of living, health, life achievement, personal relationships, personal safety, community connectedness, and future security. Each item is rated on a 0- to 10-scale (0 = Very Sad; 10 = Very Happy). Items can be scored individually to derive a score for the corresponding domain or all the scores for all items can be summed and averaged to form the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI). To create scores that can be compared with one another, the ratings can be converted to a 0- to 100-point scale by shifting the decimal point one place to the right (e.g., a score of 6.5 becomes 65%).

Specific Instructions

None

Availability

Available

Protocol

The test administrator should take respondents verbally over the 11-point happiness scale, indicating the two response anchors of "very sad"/"very happy" and the neutral mid-position of "neither happy nor sad." See following for instructions:

        "You will be asked a few questions about how happy you feel, using a scale from zero to 10."

        "On this scale, zero means you feel VERY SAD. 10 means you feel VERY HAPPY. And the middle of the scale is 5, which means you feel NOT HAPPY OR SAD."

        [Test administrator can hold questionnaire up and point to the respective anchor points upon their mention.]

Personal Wellbeing Index - School Children/Adolescents

[Life Domains]

1. [Domain: Standard of Living]

How happy are you …

about the things you have? Like the money you have and the things you own?

2. [Domain: Personal Health]

How happy are you …

with your health?

3. [Domain: Achievement in Life]

How happy are you …

with the things you want to be good at?

4. [Domain: Personal Relationships]

How happy are you …

about getting on with the people you know?

5. [Domain: Personal Safety]

How happy are you …

about how safe you feel?

6. [Domain: Feeling Part of the Community]

How happy are you …

about doing things away from your home?

7. [Domain: Future Security]

How happy are you …

about what may happen to you later on in your life?

Scoring: Items can be scored individually to derive a score for the corresponding domain or all the scores for all items can be summed and averaged to form the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI). To create scores that can be compared with one another, the ratings can be converted to a 0- to 100-point scale by shifting the decimal point one place to the right (e.g., a score of 6.5 becomes 65%).

Personnel and Training Required

None

Equipment Needs

None

Requirements
Requirement CategoryRequired
Major equipment No
Specialized training No
Specialized requirements for biospecimen collection No
Average time of greater than 15 minutes in an unaffected individual No
Mode of Administration

Self-administered questionnaire

Lifestage

Adolescent

Participants

Adolescents and school-age children

Selection Rationale

The Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) is a short, valid, and reliable self-administered questionnaire with equivalent adolescent and adult versions.

Language

English

Standards
StandardNameIDSource
caDSR Form PhenX PX661302 - Personal Wellbeing Index Child 6873768 caDSR Form
Derived Variables

None

Process and Review

Not applicable.

Protocol Name from Source

Personal Wellbeing Index-School Children (PWI-SC)

Source

Cummins, R. A., & Lau, A. L. D. (2005). Personal Wellbeing Index-School Children (PWI-SC) (3rd Ed.). Melbourne, Australia: Australian Centre on Quality of Life, Deakin University.

General References

Cummins, R. A., Eckersley, R., Pallant, J., Van Vugt, J., & Misajon, R. (2003). Developing a national index of subjective wellbeing: The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index. Social Indicators Research, 64, 159-190.

Cummins, R. A., & Lau, A. L. D. (2005). Personal Wellbeing Index-School Children (PWI-SC) (3rd Ed.). Melbourne, Australia: Australian Centre on Quality of Life, Deakin University.

Tomyn, A. J., Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, M., & Cummins, R. A. (2013). The Personal Wellbeing Index: Psychometric equivalence for adults and school children. Social Indicators Research, 110(3), 913-924.

Protocol ID

661302

Variables
Export Variables
Variable Name Variable IDVariable DescriptiondbGaP Mapping
PX661302_Personal_WellBeing_Children_Goals
PX661302030000 How happy are you with the things you want more
to be good at? show less
N/A
PX661302_Personal_WellBeing_Children_Health
PX661302020000 How happy are you with your health? N/A
PX661302_Personal_WellBeing_Children_Life
PX661302070000 How happy are you about what may happen to more
you later on in your life? show less
N/A
PX661302_Personal_WellBeing_Children_Outside_Home
PX661302060000 How happy are you about doing things away more
from your home? show less
N/A
PX661302_Personal_WellBeing_Children_Possessions
PX661302010000 How happy are you about the things you have? more
Like the money you have and the things you own? show less
N/A
PX661302_Personal_WellBeing_Children_Relationships
PX661302040000 How happy are you about getting on with the more
people you know? show less
N/A
PX661302_Personal_WellBeing_Children_Safety
PX661302050000 How happy are you about how safe you feel? N/A
Early Psychosis Translational Research
Measure Name

Personal Well-Being

Release Date

January 17, 2017

Definition

A questionnaire to assess happiness and satisfaction with life.

Purpose

This measure can be used to assess the subjective quality of life dimensions (i.e., subjective wellbeing) defined as feelings of happiness or satisfaction about one’s life.

Keywords

early psychosis, Personal Wellbeing Index-School Children, PWI-SC, Personal Wellbeing Index-Adult, PWI-A, happiness, satisfaction, standard of living, health, life achievement, personal relationships, personal safety, community connectedness, future security

Measure Protocols
Protocol ID Protocol Name
661301 Personal Well-being Index - Adult
661302 Personal Well-being index - Child
Publications

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