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A Review of Research on the Happiness Measures: A Sixty Second Index of Happiness and Mental Health

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Eighteen years of research using the Happiness Measures (HM) is reviewed in relation to the general progress of well-being measurement efforts. The accumulated findings on this remarkably quick instrument, show good reliability, exceptional stability, and a record of convergent, construct, and discriminative validity unparalleled in the field. Because of this, the HM is offered as a potential touchstone of measurement consistency in a field which generally lacks it.

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    Michael W. Fordyce

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Fordyce, M.W. (2005). A Review of Research on the Happiness Measures: A Sixty Second Index of Happiness and Mental Health. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Citation Classics from Social Indicators Research. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3742-2_14

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