Overview
- First book to document the development and validation of various positive psychology constructs on Indian population in English and Hindi
- Covers each construct adequately, thus providing an in-depth understanding of the construct at global and Indian scenarios
- Discusses psychometric procedures in detail along with rigorous statistical screening
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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The book contributes to the vast field of research in psychometrics as well as to the growing field of positive psychology. It analyses the development and validation of several constructs of positive psychology like resilience, flow, mindfulness, spirituality, and intrapersonal and interpersonal strengths. The chapters discuss the test construction process and develop scales for constructs that are validated on the Indian population. In most Indian behavioral research, psychological tests from the West are employed without assessing psychometric properties in India. However, establishing validation of psychological tests in a new culture is necessary in order to claim results based on these tests. Hence, this book bridges this gap in positive psychology and its allied fields and develops and standardizes these scales for the Indian population. The new constructed and validated scales have undergone rigorous statistical screening. Psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers interested in studying well-being in India and in understanding how to create psychometric scales for non-Western populations will find the book useful for their research.
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Keywords
- Measuring mindfulness
- Positive psychology in India
- Psychological constructs in India
- Psychological testing
- Psychometrics
- Resilience
- Scales of positive psychology
- Spirituality in India
- Statistical screening for psychological constructs
- Validation of positive psychology constructs
- Validation of psychometric scales
- Well-being and ill-being
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Book Title: Measures of Positive Psychology
Book Subtitle: Development and Validation
Authors: Kamlesh Singh, Mohita Junnarkar, Jasleen Kaur
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3631-3
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer India 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-3629-0Published: 16 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-3872-0Published: 05 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-3631-3Published: 24 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 215
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Positive Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Psychiatry