The PERMA-Profiler: A brief multidimensional measure of flourishing

By J. Butler, Margaret L. Kern. 2016

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Abstract: In the book Flourish (2011), Seligman defined wellbeing in terms of five pillars: Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment, or PERMA. We developed the PERMA-Profiler as a brief measure of PERMA. We first compiled hundreds of theoretically relevant items. Three studies ( N = 7,188) reduced, tested, and refined items, resulting in a final set of 15 questions (three items per PERMA domain). Eight additional filler items were added, which assess overall wellbeing, negative emotion, loneliness, and physical health, resulting in a final 23-item measure. A series of eight additional studies ( N = 31,966) were conducted to test the psychometrics of the measure. The PERMA-Profiler demonstrates acceptable model fit, internal and cross-time consistency, and evidence for content, convergent, and divergent validity. Scores are reported visually as a profile across domains, reflecting the multidimensional nature of flourishing. The PERMA-Profiler adds to the toolbox of wellbeing measures, allowing individuals to monitor their wellbeing across multiple psychosocial domains.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Understanding language teacher wellbeing: An ESM study of daily stressors and uplifts (2020, methodology): “The second questionnaire was used to measure wellbeing as defined by PERMA using the PERMA Profiler (Butler & Kern, 2016), which in addition to the PERMA dimensions, includes three-item measures for physical health and negative emotion, plus a single-item question on loneliness.”
The state of wellbeing science: Concepts, measures, interventions, and policies (2014, background): “Most of these lists have measurement scales associated with them, or in the case of the newest list by Seligman, a measurement scale is currently being developed (Butler & Kern, 2013).”
PERMA and the building blocks of well-being (2018, methodology): “For measures they used the PERMA-profiler (Butler & Kern, 2016), and they combined three scales, Satisfaction with Life (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985), plus a single item happiness measure, and a three item negative emotion scale to form the SWB variable.”
Measuring well-being: A comparison of subjective well-being and PERMA (2018, methodology): “The PERMA-Profiler (Butler & Kern, 2016) was developed to measure Seligman’s (2011) PERMA model of flourishing: (P)ositive emotions (general tendency to feel contentment and joy; α = 0.90), (E)ngagement (being absorbed or interested in an activity, state of flow; α = .58), (R)elationships (feeling…”
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the PERMA Model of Well-Being (2015, methodology): “Even while PERMA-Profiler displayed acceptable psychometric properties across a large international sample (Butler & Kern, 2014), there may be variance in responses between cultures and also within cultures.”
Language teachers’ coping strategies during the Covid-19 conversion to online teaching: Correlations with stress, wellbeing and negative emotions (2020, positive): “That is, a lack of negative affect, depression, loneliness, insecurity, and illness is not the same as the presence of positive affect, happiness, social connection, trust, and wellness” (Butler & Kern, 2016, p. 2).”
Teachers’ well-being and job satisfaction: the important role of positive emotions in the workplace (2021, methodology): “The assessment of the five PERMA dimensions was achieved by adapting the German version of the PERMA-profiler (Wammerl et al. 2019), which is based on the original PERMA profiler (Butler and Kern 2016).”