Evaluating the Psychometric Properties of the PERMA Profiler

Bartholomaeus, Jonathan; Iasiello, Matthew; Jarden, Aaron; Burke, Karena J.; Agteren, Joseph van

doi:10.1007/s41543-020-00031-3

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“…Aiming at exploring the reliability and the validity of the PERMA instrument for Chinese undergraduates in EFL learning, the result of present research in EFA shows that there are five constructs available in the PERMA model, that is, positive emotions, engagement, relationship, meaning, and accomplishment. This structure coincides with the original PERMA framework, which is also in line with the previous research in other contexts (Arvig, 2006;Baltzell, Akhtar, McCarthy, Hurley, & Martin, 2014;Bartholomaeus, Iasiello, Jarden, Burke, & van Agteren, 2020;Coffey, Wray-Lake, Mashek, & Branand, 2016;Diener et al, 2010;Dimitropoulou & Leontopoulou, 2017;Kern, Waters, Adler, & White, 2014;Kern et al, 2015;Leontopoulou, 2020;Pezirkianidis, Stalikas, Lakioti, & Yotsidi, 2019;Umucu et al, 2020). Furthermore, in the present study, the factor structure for the Chinese EFL university students was identified by both EFA and CFA analysis.…”

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Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of PERMA for Chinese University EFL Students in Higher Education

Yang

Mohd

2021

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The purpose of this research is mainly to explore the validity and reliability of PERMA instruments to determine the nature of PERMA for Chinese university EFL students. A total of 309 Chinese university EFL students from 10 universities in Gansu province were investigated. Selected by cluster random sampling, the extracted data from the survey design underwent exploratory factor analysis(EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis(CFA) with the use of SPSS version 24 and AMOS version 23 to verify the factor structure of the PERMA. The results of EFA indicate similar structures from prior research and the present study. The CFA results testify that the PERMA instrument is satisfactory for Chinese university EFL students. Therefore, this research indicates that the PERMA of Chinese university EFL students also has a five-factor structure, which implies the perceived PERMA in the Chinese EFL context to be adequately invariant and it as an effective measurement tool supporting the research of Chinese university students’ well-being. The findings highlight the significance of validating and confirming the PERMA structure and provide new insights into its application across different cultural contexts.

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Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of PERMA for Chinese University EFL Students in Higher Education

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Mohd

2021

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“…The composite scores from each of the three items per construct were averaged. The overall well-being score is the mean of the 15 items [ 34 ]. As a scoring system, we classified the results as the following: very high functioning (9 and above), high functioning (8–8.9), normal functioning (6.5–7.9), sub-optimal functioning (5–6.4), and languishing (below 5) [ 35 ].…”

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Exploring the Well-Being of Slovenian and Serbian Sport Science Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic of Summer 2022

Banjac

Milovanović

Pišot

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The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly changed everyday life of social actors, which inferred mental health and well-being concerns. As students of health-related studies tend to adapt better to difficult circumstances, in this study, we explored the effect of the pandemic on sports science students’ well-being during the summer of 2022. The research was conducted in Slovenia and Serbia. The sample comprised n = 350 students. The PERMA-Profiler, a 15-item self-reported questionnaire, was adapted to assess well-being across five elements: positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment. Data were collected with a questionnaire through the summer of 2022 (from May to July) and analyzed in SPSS, AMOS 26.0. The results revealed normal functioning (M = 7.72, SD ± 1.38) for the overall well-being of the students. Although all dimensions indicated high scores, relationships (M = 7.95, SD ± 1.63), meaning (M = 7.76, SD ± 1.69), and engagement (M = 7.73, SD ± 1.36) rated the highest. Furthermore, the instrument was acceptable, as the confirmatory factor analysis showed adequate reliability based on Cronbach's alpha (15 items, α = 0.94) and strong internal correlations between the PERMA dimensions. This study contributes to the previously published research, emphasizing the positive responses and successful coping of sports science students in times of complex situations, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…Despite adopting a manifestly WEIRD criterion (i.e., “free choice”) as the core of his account, researchers have used the PERMA-profiler (Butler & Kern, 2016) in multiple countries ranging from the U.S. to the United Arab Emirates (Bartholomaeus et al, 2020; Giangrasso, 2021; Lambert et al, 2020). Researchers simply translated the PERMA-Profiler to other languages and assessed people in those language groups without considering whether PERMA fits the culture well, thus implying that this measure, developed at an elite research university in the United States, is universally applicable.…”

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Questioning Contemporary Universalist Approaches to Human Flourishing

Fowers

Novak

Kiknadze

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Review of General Psychology

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This article takes stock of the growing interest in flourishing measurement. The focus is on three challenges in this domain: the degree of coherent theorizing, the overreliance on psychometric validation, and the questionable universality of the measures. A rigorous process identified the eight most widely documented flourishing measures. All eight measures struggled with the three challenges. First, all measures were constructed on intuitive grounds, whether those bases were existing literatures, personal conceptualizations, or the intuition of an opposition of mental illness and flourishing. Second, all measures were assessed almost exclusively with psychometric studies, with little evidence of theoretical or cultural validity. Finally, all eight measures implicitly or explicitly assume cultural universality without providing theoretical argument or empirical evidence for that assumption. This stock-taking resulted in two main conclusions. First, there are areas of both consensus (e.g., that flourishing is a measurable, multidimensional construct) and dissensus (e.g., the components of flourishing) that can provide bases for future theory and research. Second, systematic theoretical argument is necessary to better understand what flourishing is, how it can be validly measured, and the degree to which it can be considered a universal human experience. It is time to address these theoretical and cultural questions.

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Evaluating the Psychometric Properties of the PERMA Profiler

Cited by 21 publications

References 39 publications

Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of PERMA for Chinese University EFL Students in Higher Education

Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of PERMA for Chinese University EFL Students in Higher Education

Exploring the Well-Being of Slovenian and Serbian Sport Science Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic of Summer 2022

Questioning Contemporary Universalist Approaches to Human Flourishing

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