Measures of Positive Psychology - Kamlesh Singh, Mohita Junnarkar, Jasleen Kaur

Measures of Positive Psychology

Development and Validation
Buch | Softcover
215 Seiten
2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Springer, India, Private Ltd (Verlag)
978-81-322-3872-0 (ISBN)
117,69 inkl. MwSt
The book contributes to the vast field of research in psychometrics as well as to the growing field of positive psychology. The chapters discuss the test construction process and develop scales for constructs that are validated on the Indian population.
The book contributes to the vast field of research in psychometrics as well as to the growing field of positive psychology. It analyses the development and validation of several constructs of positive psychology like resilience, flow, mindfulness, spirituality, and intrapersonal and interpersonal strengths. The chapters discuss the test construction process and develop scales for constructs that are validated on the Indian population. In most Indian behavioral research, psychological tests from the West are employed without assessing psychometric properties in India. However, establishing validation of psychological tests in a new culture is necessary in order to claim results based on these tests. Hence, this book bridges this gap in positive psychology and its allied fields and develops and standardizes these scales for the Indian population. The new constructed and validated scales have undergone rigorous statistical screening. Psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers interested in studying well-being in India and in understanding how to create psychometric scales for non-Western populations will find the book useful for their research.     

Kamlesh Singh (Ph. D Psychology), joined the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi in 2004 and has about 20 year experience in research and teaching. Main areas of her research interest are positive psychology, applied positive psychology, psychometrics, community psychology, and rural women and adolescents. Kamlesh Singh has to her credit 65 published papers in the peer reviewed national and international journals and 14 book chapters. She has also presented about 60 papers at national and international conferences. She has been teaching courses like positive psychology and psychological testing at IIT Delhi, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore and IIM Ranchi. With her ongoing teaching and various research projects in positive psychology, Kamlesh Singh is also on board of directors of the International Association of Positive Psychology (IPPA) and secretary and founder member of National Positive Psychology Association (NPPA). She has also recently joined as Associate Editor, Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology. 

Chapter 1. Positive Psychology in India: A review.- Chapter 2. Norms in Test Construction.- Chapter 3. The Assessment of Resilience.- Chapter 4. Flow-Scale Construction & Validation.- Chapter 5. Mindfulness and its Assessment.- Chapter 6. Spirituality and its Assessment.- Chapter 7. Well-being and its Assessment.- Chapter 8. Development and Validation of new Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Strengths Measures.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 19 Illustrations, black and white; X, 215 p. 19 illus.
Verlagsort New Delhi
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Humanistische Psychotherapien
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 81-322-3872-9 / 8132238729
ISBN-13 978-81-322-3872-0 / 9788132238720
Zustand Neuware
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