TY - JOUR

T1 - Approbation of "oxford happiness questionnaire" on the Russian sample

AU - Golubev, A. M.

AU - Dorosheva, E. A.

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - The study is devoted to adaptation of Russian language version of Oxford Happiness Questionnaire intended for subjective well-being level evaluation. The sample consists of 817 persons (M = 22.9; a = 8.7), with 227 males and 590 females among them. Test-retest reliability of the questionnaire obtained in a three months period is rather high (r =0.802; p < 0.001). Internal consistency is high (Cronbach's alpha is 0.893). Validity of the questionnaire was evaluated by means of correlations with scales that theoretically are connected with the subjective well-being construct. The scale's indices negative correlations with the intensity of depressive symptomatology (Beck's Depression Inventory), level of anxiety (scale of personal anxiety by Spielberger-Khanin personal anxiety scale), hypochondria and neuroticism (from MMPI and NEO-PI) and positive correlations with indices of other questionnaires for subjective well-being measurement (K. Riffs scales of psychological well-being, Lyubomirsky's scale of subjective well-being) and the level of extraversion (NEO-PI) are indicative of its validity.

AB - The study is devoted to adaptation of Russian language version of Oxford Happiness Questionnaire intended for subjective well-being level evaluation. The sample consists of 817 persons (M = 22.9; a = 8.7), with 227 males and 590 females among them. Test-retest reliability of the questionnaire obtained in a three months period is rather high (r =0.802; p < 0.001). Internal consistency is high (Cronbach's alpha is 0.893). Validity of the questionnaire was evaluated by means of correlations with scales that theoretically are connected with the subjective well-being construct. The scale's indices negative correlations with the intensity of depressive symptomatology (Beck's Depression Inventory), level of anxiety (scale of personal anxiety by Spielberger-Khanin personal anxiety scale), hypochondria and neuroticism (from MMPI and NEO-PI) and positive correlations with indices of other questionnaires for subjective well-being measurement (K. Riffs scales of psychological well-being, Lyubomirsky's scale of subjective well-being) and the level of extraversion (NEO-PI) are indicative of its validity.

KW - Oxford Happiness Questionnaire

KW - Psychodiagnostics

KW - Psychometric characteristics

KW - Subjective well-being

KW - subjective well-being

KW - psychodiagnostics

KW - psychometric characteristics

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85026893432&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.7868/S0205959217030096

DO - 10.7868/S0205959217030096

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85026893432

VL - 38

SP - 108

EP - 118

JO - Psikhologicheskii Zhurnal

JF - Psikhologicheskii Zhurnal

SN - 0205-9592

IS - 3

ER -