The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire: a compact scale for the measurement of psychological well-being

By Peter Hills, Michael Argyle. 2002

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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Validation of the Italian Versions of the Flourishing Scale and of the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (2017, methodology): “It may be simpler to consider well-being to be a unidimensional construct, as hypothesized, for example, by the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (Hills & Argyle, 2002) or by the single-item measures proposed in several contexts (e.g., Fordyce, 1977).”
A Comparison of Bifactor and Second-Order Models of Quality of Life (2006, background): “Second-order models are more familiar as they have been applied in a wider variety of substantive areas, such as personality (DeYoung, Peterson, & Higgins, 2002; Judge, Erez, Bono, & Thoresen, 2002), self-concept (Marsh, Ellis, & Craven, 2002), and psychological well-being (Hills & Argyle, 2002).”
Is teacher happiness contagious? A study of the link between perceptions of language teacher happiness and student attitudes (2019, background): “This construct was chosen because of its adaptability and consistently high rate of reliability across cultures (Hills & Argyle, 2002).”
The Impact of COVID-19 Epidemic Declaration on Psychological Consequences: A Study on Active Weibo Users (2020, methodology): “The emotions and cognition are usually measured by retrospective questionnaires, such as Oxford Happiness Inventory (OHI) [12] , Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90) [13] , Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) [14] , and Likert Type Attitude Scale [15, 16] .”
Forgiveness, Gratitude, and Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Affect and Beliefs (2009, methodology): “In this study 244 college students from the United Kingdom were assessed using the Enright Forgiveness Inventory (Subkoviak et al. 1995), the Depression-Happiness Scale (Joseph and Lewis 1998; McGreal and Joseph 1993), and the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire—Short Form ( Hills and Argyle 2002 ).”
Humor Styles, Positive Personality and Health (2010, background): “The short form of the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (Hills & Argyle, 2002) is an 8-item questionnaire designed to capture stable differences in personal happiness and a sense of well being. and scores are reported as the mean rating of the 8 items.”
Spirituality, Religiousness, and Happiness in Children Aged 8–12 Years (2010, methodology): “Four measures of children’s happiness were used in the regression analyses: (1) the children’s ratings based on the faces scale (ChildOwnFace); (2) the parent’s ratings of their child’s happiness (ParentChildFace); (3) the short form of the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire ( Hills and Argyle 2002 ) co”
Does personal social media usage affect efficiency and well-being? (2015, methodology): “The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire is a short-form of the Oxford Happiness Index.”
Life Satisfaction, Happiness, and the Growth Mindset of Healthy and Unhealthy Perfectionists Among Hong Kong Chinese Gifted Students (2012, methodology): “The English version of the scale (Hills & Argyle, 2002) was first translated into Chinese and back-translated into English by two language teachers.”
Religion and happiness: Consensus, contradictions, comments and concerns (2006, methodology): “Initial work by Hills and Argyle (2002) has demonstrated that the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire was very strongly correlated with the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire short-form (r¼ 0.93), the Oxford Happiness Inventory (r¼ 0.80), and the Depression– Happiness Scale (r¼ 0.90).”