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Affect Balance Scale (ABS)

The Affect Balance Scale assesses positive and negative affect as indicators of life satisfaction and general well-being.

Multi-dimensional Student Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS)

The MSLSS is a 40-item measure designed to provide a holistic assessment of the wellbeing of young people. It has five subscales: family, friends, school, living environment and self. Each segment can be considered separately. It is a validated tool, and has been tested for effectiveness in the USA and middle east.

How Are You? (HAY)

The HAY covers the physical, social and psychological consequences of illness for children and consists of a generic, a chronic illness section and a disease-specific section.

Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index

The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index was developed to establish official statistics on the state of wellbeing in the United States.  Questions center around experiences and emotions the context of the past 24 hours.

 

Affect and Arousal Scale (AFARS)

The AFARS Measures core emotional factors in children and adolescents, including positive affect, negative affect, and physiological hyperarousal, in contrast to instruments that measure specific symptoms of anxiety or depression.

Student Life Satisfaction Scale (SLSS)

The SLSS is a global measure of life satisfaction which asks children and young people the extent to which they agree or disagree with a series of general statements about their life.

Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS)

The SHS is a 4-item scale of global subjective happiness. Two items ask respondents to characterize themselves using both absolute ratings and ratings relative to peers, whereas the other two items offer brief descriptions of happy and unhappy individuals and ask respondents the extent to which each characterization describes them