The Flourishing Scale

The Flourishing Scale (Diener, et al., 2009 1) is a brief 8-item summary measure of the respondent’s self-perceived success in important areas such as relationships, self-esteem, purpose, and optimism. The scale provides a single psychological well-being score. Existing data available through the Healthy Minds Survey and ACHA-NCHA Survey.

[1] Diener, E., Wirtz, D., Tov, W., Kim-Prieto, C., Choi, D., Oishi, S., & Biswas-Diener, R. (2010). New measures of well-being: Short scales to assess flourishing and positive and negative feelings. Social Indicators Research, 97, 143-156.

Retrieved from the University of Wisconsin-Madison: https://students.wisc.edu/who-we-are/strategic-plan/mental-and-physical-health/#footnotes

Scoring: add the responses, varying from 1 to 7, for all eight items. The possible range of scores is 8 (lowest possible) to 56 (highest possible). A high score represents a person with many psychological resources and strengths. A score of 52-56 is considered “flourishing.”

Measure

Indicate your agreement with the following statement (scale: strongly disagree=1, disagree=2, slightly disagree=3, neither agree or disagree=4, slightly agree=5, agree=6, strongly agree=7).