Deliberation on factor structure on affective well-being scale and the development of its short version

Abstract

  This study aims to (1) investigate the invariance of factor structure of affective well-being among some populations, (2) develop the short version of the affective well-being scale and (3) report generation difference in affective well-being. In order to achieve these purposes, a survey was conducted using 272 undergraduate or vocational school students in Kansai region and 585 randomly selected young-olds living in a local city. The results of confirmatory factor analysis and correlation analysis indicated that the factor structure of affective well-being was invariant and that the short version of affective well-being scale comprising seven items had adequate validity and reliability to measure positive and negative affect. Additionally, other results showed that young-olds had better affective well-being than younger persons. Thus, this study reveals that the assumption of some theory in Gerontology was correct.