Validity of the Hungarian version of the Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS-HU)

Szabó, Attila

doi:10.1556/0406.20.2019.010

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“…Similar to the SWLS, over the past 20 years, psychometric investigations of the SHS have been performed in a wide range of countries. In particular, the SHS has been validated in American and Russian (Lyubomirsky & Lepper, 1999), Austrian and Philippine (Swami et al, 2009), Arabic (Moghnie & Kazarian, 2012), Brazilian (Damásio et al, 2014), Chilean (Vera-Villarroel et al, 2011), Chinese (Chien et al, 2020;Nan et al 2014), French (Kotsou & Leys, 2017), Greek (Karakasidou et al, 2016), Hungarian (Szabo, 2019), Japanese (Shimai et al, 2004), Lebanese (Moghnie & Kazarian, 2012), Italian (Iani et al, 2014), Malay (Swami, 2008), Mexican (Quezada et al, 2016), Portuguese (Spagnoli et al, 2012), Serbian (Jovanović, 2013), Spanish (Extremera & Fernández-Berrocal, 2014), and Turkish (Doğan & Totan, 2013) samples. Overall, these studies indicate good metric characteristics of the scale with clear unidimensional structure, and adequate internal consistency and test-retest reliability.…”

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Measurement Invariance of the Subjective Happiness Scale Across Countries, Gender, Age, and Time

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The purpose of this study was to examine measurement invariance of the Subjective Happiness Scale across countries, gender, and age groups and across time by multigroup confirmatory factor analysis. Altogether, 4,977 participants from nine European, American, and Australian countries were included in the study. Our results revealed that both configural and metric invariance held across countries, but scalar invariance was only partially confirmed with one item yielding varying intercepts in different countries. Measurement invariance was also confirmed across gender and age groups. Longitudinal measurement invariance was examined on a subsample of 478 English-speaking participants and was fully confirmed across five consecutive assessment points. Factor means were compared between groups and across time, and good convergent validity of the Subjective Happiness Scale was found in relation to a measure of temporal satisfaction with life. Overall, our results demonstrate that self-reported happiness was measured similarly in nine different countries, gender and age groups and over time, and provide a solid foundation for meaningful cross-group and cross-time comparisons in subjective happiness.

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“…The sum of the four ratings yield a total score for perceived happiness. The internal consistency of the here adopted scale was reported to be adequate (Cronbach's alpha =.80; Szabo, 2019)…”

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“…The psychometrically validated Hungarian version (Szabo, 2019) of the Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS; Lyubomirsky & Lepper, 1999) was used to assess the subjectively perceived happiness of the participants. The scale has only four items.…”

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General Psychosocial Measures are Affected by the Situation Preceding Assessment: The ‘Arbitrary Distinction’ Between State and Trait Measures is Still Unresolved

Szabó

Ábel

2021

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General psychosocial measures are assumed to be stable over time. However, such measures may be affected by the situation preceding assessment. In this study 28 participants completed the WHO-5 Well-Being Index, the Subjective Happiness Scale, and the Life Orientation Test which are general measures, and the Positive Affect Negative Affect Schedule and the Feeling Scale which are state measures. Subsequently, the first part of ‘Mega Disasters Nagasaki The Forgotten Bomb’ documentary was presented to the participants. Following the intervention, they completed the same measures again. State measures of negative affect increased, feeling state decreased as expected, but retrospectively measured well-being as well as the index of optimism also decreased. There were large individual differences. The findings indicate that general measures, assumed to be stable over time, are influenced by the situation. Therefore, there is a need for reporting, as well as controlling, the events preceding their measurement. The implication of these findings is that hundreds of empirical results based on general or trait measures may be invalid if any event preceding their assessment had an emotional impact.

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“…Nowadays, the SHS is one of the most used instruments for measuring global happiness and it has shown-in diverse and large samples of students and community adults-high internal consistency, good-to-excellent test-retest reliability, a unidimensional structure, and satisfactory convergent (with moderate correlations with other wellbeing variables) and discriminant validities, not only in its original version [6] but also in its subsequent linguistic adaptations. The original English version has been translated and cross-culturally validated in several languages: Arabic [40,41], French [41,42], Chinese [43,44], German [45], Hungarian [46], Italian [47], Japanese [48], Malay [49], Portuguese [50,51], Russian [6], Serbian [52], Spanish [13,14,53], Tagalog [45] and Turkish [54]. Despite this large number of linguistic adaptations of the SHS as well as the considerable amount of research evidence on the significant role of subjective happiness on mental health (e.g., [20]), there is, as far as we know, no psychometric study of this scale in clinical psychiatric samples.…”

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Unhappy While Depressed: Examining the Dimensionality, Reliability and Validity of the Subjective Happiness Scale in a Spanish Sample of Patients with Depressive Disorders

Feliu‐Soler

Diego-Adeliño

Luciano

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IJERPH

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Despite the considerable amount of research evidence on the significant role of subjective happiness on mental health, there is no psychometric study of the Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS) in psychiatric samples. This study was aimed at exploring the psychometric properties of the SHS in a Spanish sample of patients with depressive disorders. Participants were 174 patients with a depressive disorder (70% diagnosed as major depressive disorder) who completed the SHS, the Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology-Self Report (QIDS-SR16), and the EQ-5D Visual Analogue Scale (EQ-5D VAS). Depressive symptoms were also assessed by means of the 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS17) and the Clinical Global Impression-Severity (CGI-S) Scale. Dimensionality, internal consistency reliability, construct validity, and responsiveness to change of the SHS were examined. Confirmatory factor analysis replicated the original one-factor structure of the scale. The SHS exhibited good-to-excellent results for internal consistency (α = 0.83) and for convergent [EQ-5D VAS (r = 0.71)] and divergent [QIDS-SR16 (r = −0.72), HDRS17 (r = −0.60) and CGI-S (r = −0.61)] construct validity. The ability of the SHS to differentiate between depression severity levels as well as its responsiveness to clinical change were both highly satisfactory (p < 0.001 in both cases). The SHS retained the soundness of psychometric properties showed in non-clinical samples in a sample of patients with depressive disorders, which supports its use as a reliable and valid outcome measure in the treatment of such disorders.

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Validity of the Hungarian version of the Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS-HU)

Cited by 14 publications

References 52 publications

Measurement Invariance of the Subjective Happiness Scale Across Countries, Gender, Age, and Time

Measurement Invariance of the Subjective Happiness Scale Across Countries, Gender, Age, and Time

General Psychosocial Measures are Affected by the Situation Preceding Assessment: The ‘Arbitrary Distinction’ Between State and Trait Measures is Still Unresolved

Unhappy While Depressed: Examining the Dimensionality, Reliability and Validity of the Subjective Happiness Scale in a Spanish Sample of Patients with Depressive Disorders

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