Translation and Validation of the Malayalam Version of the Subjective Happiness Scale.

IF 2.8 2区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Social Indicators Research Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-22 DOI:10.1007/s11205-024-03448-y

Kelly Cotton, Sanish Sathyan, Soumya Jacob, K S Shaji, Emmeline Ayers, Dristi Adhikari, Alben Sigamani, V G Pradeep Kumar, Joe Verghese

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Abstract

The subjective happiness scale (SHS) is a brief instrument used to measure global subjective happiness that has been translated from its original English to many other languages. To date, there is no reported translation of this scale into Malayalam, a language spoken by over 32 million people especially in the southern state of Kerala, India. In the present study, 656 community-dwelling older adults participating in the Kerala Einstein study (KES) completed the Malayalam version of the SHS. The Malayalam version demonstrated high internal consistency and good convergent validity, as assessed by comparison to measures of depression and anxiety. We also used factor analysis to determine that the Malayalam version of the SHS has a unidimensional structure, akin to the original English as well as other language adaptations. Our study adds to the repertoire of tools to measure happiness in non-English-speaking populations, enabling future research to explore the foundations of well-being across diverse cultures.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11205-024-03448-y.

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Social Indicators Research Multiple-

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6.30

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6.50%

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174

期刊介绍： Since its foundation in 1974, Social Indicators Research has become the leading journal on problems related to the measurement of all aspects of the quality of life. The journal continues to publish results of research on all aspects of the quality of life and includes studies that reflect developments in the field. It devotes special attention to studies on such topics as sustainability of quality of life, sustainable development, and the relationship between quality of life and sustainability. The topics represented in the journal cover and involve a variety of segmentations, such as social groups, spatial and temporal coordinates, population composition, and life domains. The journal presents empirical, philosophical and methodological studies that cover the entire spectrum of society and are devoted to giving evidences through indicators. It considers indicators in their different typologies, and gives special attention to indicators that are able to meet the need of understanding social realities and phenomena that are increasingly more complex, interrelated, interacted and dynamical. In addition, it presents studies aimed at defining new approaches in constructing indicators.