An Investigation into the Cross-Cultural Equivalence of the Personal Wellbeing Index

By A. Lau, Robert Cummins, Wenda Mcpherson. 2005

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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The Effects of Ethnicity and Leisure Satisfaction on Happiness, Peacefulness, and Quality of Life (2008, background): “To answer this question, researchers have assessed peoples’ quality of life (QOL) in Western cultures (e.g., Bramston, Pretty, & Chipuer, 2002) and in Eastern cultures including China (Shek, Chan, & Lee, 2005).”
Happiness and Subjective Wellbeing in Mainland China (2008, background): “The group has members based in the PRC and other Chinese societies, as well as others around the world, and they have recently reported cross-country comparisons between Western and Chinese societies ( Lau et al. 2005 ).”
Personal Well-being in Urban China (2009, methodology): “These values are generally about 10 points lower in Chinese samples (Chen & Davey, 2008b, 2008c; Davey et al., 2008; Huang & Xing, 2005; Lau et al., 2005; Macau Inter-University Institute, 2007).”
Measuring Well-being Across Europe: Description of the ESS Well-being Module and Preliminary Findings (2009, background): “…a number of multi-item measures of satisfaction, of which the two best-known are the 5-item Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) of Diener (Diener et al. 1985; Pavot et al. 1991) and the 7-item Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) developed by Cummins and colleagues (Cummins et al. 2003; Lau et al. 2005).”
Health, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Quality of Life: What is the Difference? (2016, methodology): “The PWI asks about satisfaction with: standard of living, health, achievement, personal relationships, personal safety, communityconnectedness, and future security [43].”
Islamic religiosity, subjective well-being, and health (2009, background): “The reasons for this, as documented by Lau, Cummins, and McPherson (2005) in Hong Kong, is a combination of modesty, concern at tempting the fates by rating oneself too high, and having a different view of what the maximum scale score represents.”
Subjective Well-Being of China’s Off-Farm Migrants (2010, methodology): “…despite differences in material living standards, the PWI score for off-farm migrants is of similar magnitude to that found for Hong Kong (Lau et al., 2005, 2008), Macau (Macau Inter-University Institute, 2007), rural China (Davey et al., 2008) and urban China (Chen & Davey, 2008b; Xing…”
Testing the Personal Wellbeing Index on 12–16 Year-Old Adolescents in 3 Different Countries with 2 New Items (2012, methodology): “The psychometric properties of this scale have been published in several articles (see, for example, Lau et al. 2005; International Wellbeing Group 2006).”
Spirituality and Subjective Well-Being: Evidences for a New Domain in the Personal Well-Being Index (2009, unknown): “The International Well-being Index (IWI) is the result of the international application of the Personal and National Well-being Index (PWI; NWI) which include only subjective measures of well-being ( Lau et al. 2005 ).”