Translation and Validation of the Malayalam Version of the Subjective Happiness Scale.

IF 2.8 2区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Social Indicators Research Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-22 DOI:10.1007/s11205-024-03448-y

Kelly Cotton, Sanish Sathyan, Soumya Jacob, K S Shaji, Emmeline Ayers, Dristi Adhikari, Alben Sigamani, V G Pradeep Kumar, Joe Verghese

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The subjective happiness scale (SHS) is a brief instrument used to measure global subjective happiness that has been translated from its original English to many other languages. To date, there is no reported translation of this scale into Malayalam, a language spoken by over 32 million people especially in the southern state of Kerala, India. In the present study, 656 community-dwelling older adults participating in the Kerala Einstein study (KES) completed the Malayalam version of the SHS. The Malayalam version demonstrated high internal consistency and good convergent validity, as assessed by comparison to measures of depression and anxiety. We also used factor analysis to determine that the Malayalam version of the SHS has a unidimensional structure, akin to the original English as well as other language adaptations. Our study adds to the repertoire of tools to measure happiness in non-English-speaking populations, enabling future research to explore the foundations of well-being across diverse cultures.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11205-024-03448-y.

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主观幸福感量表马拉雅拉姆语版本的翻译与验证。

主观幸福感量表（SHS）是一种用于衡量全球主观幸福感的简短工具，已被翻译成许多其他语言。到目前为止，还没有报道将这种规模翻译成马拉雅拉姆语，这是一种超过3200万人使用的语言，特别是在印度南部的喀拉拉邦。在本研究中，656名社区居住的老年人参与了喀拉拉邦爱因斯坦研究（KES），完成了马拉雅拉姆版本的SHS。马拉雅拉姆版本表现出高内部一致性和良好的收敛效度，通过比较抑郁和焦虑的措施进行评估。我们还使用因子分析来确定马拉雅拉姆语版本的SHS具有一维结构，类似于原始英语以及其他语言改编。我们的研究增加了衡量非英语人群幸福感的工具，使未来的研究能够探索不同文化中幸福感的基础。补充资料：在线版本提供补充资料，网址为10.1007/s11205-024-03448-y。

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Social Indicators Research Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Since its foundation in 1974, Social Indicators Research has become the leading journal on problems related to the measurement of all aspects of the quality of life. The journal continues to publish results of research on all aspects of the quality of life and includes studies that reflect developments in the field. It devotes special attention to studies on such topics as sustainability of quality of life, sustainable development, and the relationship between quality of life and sustainability. The topics represented in the journal cover and involve a variety of segmentations, such as social groups, spatial and temporal coordinates, population composition, and life domains. The journal presents empirical, philosophical and methodological studies that cover the entire spectrum of society and are devoted to giving evidences through indicators. It considers indicators in their different typologies, and gives special attention to indicators that are able to meet the need of understanding social realities and phenomena that are increasingly more complex, interrelated, interacted and dynamical. In addition, it presents studies aimed at defining new approaches in constructing indicators.