Proceedings of the 3rd Teaching & Education Conference, Barcelona

PERMA ADAPTATION OF WELL BEING MEASURE TO TURKISH: WORK OF VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY

AYSE ELIUSUK

Abstract:

Seligman’s “well-being measure” called PERMA is a measure that lays off five components of a person’s level of being well. It was developed by Kern (2015). The measurement evaluates people’s level of well-being in five dimensions: They are as follows: (P: Positive and Negative emotions), (E: Engagement), (R: Relationships), (M: Meaning), (A: Accomplishment). The measurement consists of 23 articles. There is a ranging of grades from 0 to 10. The coefficiency of internal consistency of the measurement is .82. The measurement of PERMA was applied on a group of university students. Some translation texts (from English to Turkish/from Turkish to English) were given to the students in the department of ELT and was intended to find out the meaningful positive corelations between low and high points (r=.95, p<01; r=.95,p<.01). The tool of measurement with 23 articles and 8 points tested by DFA was seen to have enough indexes of well-being of comformity (x2/sd = 100.96/41, p = .00, RMSEA = .076, CFI = .96, GFI = .93, NNFI =.94). At the end of the corelation analysis carried out for validity of degree equation, meaningful corelations were found out between the points that the students got from the measurement of patience and the points gotten from measurement of subjective well-being (Tuzgöl Erdost, 2005), the measurement of psychological well-being called Ryff, 1989), the measurement of psychological well-being called (Telef, 2013). The coefficiency of internal consistency of the measurement is .82. The coefficiency of internal consistency of the measurement is α = .82 and corelation of the test is 81. As a result, the tool of measurement with 23 articles and 8 sub-dimensions has been ready to be used.

Keywords: Well-being, positive ve negative emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning and accomplishment, the measurement of well-being, reliability and validity

DOI: 10.20472/TEC.2016.003.008

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