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Measurement of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Orientations to Happiness: The Spanish Orientations to Happiness Scale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2019

Laura Lorente ,
Núria Tordera  and
José María Peiró
Laura Lorente*
Affiliation:
Universitat de València (Spain)
Núria Tordera
Affiliation:
Universitat de València (Spain)
José María Peiró
Affiliation:
Universitat de València (Spain)
*
*Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Laura Lorente. Universitat de València. Instituto de Investigación en Psicología de los Recursos Humanos, del Desarrollo Organizacional, y de la Calidad de Vida Laboral (IDOCAL) Universitat de València (Spain). Avenida Blasco Ibáñez, 21. 46010 Valencia (Spain). E-mail: laura.lorente-prieto@uv.es
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Abstract

Understanding happiness and well-being has been one of the central issues for psychologists in recent decades. Happiness orientations have been identified as important pathways toward different types of well-being, and so the development and validation of scales for their measurement is an important step in their study. The present research aims to adapt and validate the Spanish Orientations to Happiness Scale (SOTH), a 6-item scale based on the Orientations to Happiness Questionnaire. This brief scale, which measures hedonic and eudemonic orientations, was administered to 1,647 Spanish workers. Scale structure was subjected to exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory (CFA) factor analysis to obtain evidence of factorial validity. Evidence for convergent validity was assessed by correlating the scale with two measures of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being, and discriminant validity was assessed with the average variance extracted (AVE). Results of EFA showed a two-factor solution, and CFA partially supported this structure, χ2(8,N= 793) = 36.61, p < .001; RMSEA = .06; SRMR = .05; CFI = .97; ACFI = .96. Results also demonstrated appropriate convergent and discriminant validity. The SOTH Scale has been shown to be reliable (CR indices > .72) and valid (AVE = .50), and so it is a valuable tool for assessing orientations to happiness in the Spanish context. Finally, the scientific value and practical utility of the scale are discussed.

Keywords

life satisfactionorientations to happinessscalevalidation
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Research Article
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The Spanish Journal of Psychology , Volume 22 , 2019 , E11
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Copyright © Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid 2019 

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Footnotes

This work was supported by the Spanish Government with project PSI2015-64862-R (MINECO/FEDER).

How to cite this article:

Lorente, L., Tordera, N., & Peiró, J. M. (2019). Measurement of hedonic and eudaimonic orientations to happiness: The Spanish Orientations to Happiness Scale. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 22. e11. Doi:10.1017/sjp.2019.12

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