Journal article
The Development and Validation of the Comprehensive Inventory of Thriving (CIT) and the Brief Inventory of Thriving (BIT)
Applied psychology : health and well-being, Vol.6(3), pp.251-279
11/2014
DOI: 10.1111/aphw.12027
PMID: 24919454
Abstract
In this article we present the development and validation of two new measures of psychological well-being: the Comprehensive Inventory of Thriving (CIT) and the Brief Inventory of Thriving (BIT). These measures were developed with two specific goals in mind: (1) to measure a broad range of psychological well-being constructs and represent a holistic view of positive functioning; and (2) to predict important health outcomes that are useful for researchers and health practitioners. The CIT includes 18 subscales with 54 items in total, covering a broad range of well-being components. The BIT has 10 items in total and can serve as an indicator of psychological well-being and a brief screening tool of mental health. The new measures were evaluated in five samples of a total of 3,191 US participants with diverse demographics. The CIT and BIT had excellent psychometric properties and exhibited convergent validity with existing measures of psychological well-being and discriminant validity with measures of ill-being. Both measures contributed over and above existing measures of psychology well-being in predicting a variety of health outcomes, including self-reported and objective health status, physical functioning, and health behaviors. In addition, we showed the relative importance of thriving compared to ill-being for health outcomes and the benefits of assessing individuals' positive functioning beyond ill-being. Potential uses of the new measures are discussed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Development and Validation of the Comprehensive Inventory of Thriving (CIT) and the Brief Inventory of Thriving (BIT)
- Creators
- Rong Su - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignLouis Tay - Purdue University SystemEd Diener - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Applied psychology : health and well-being, Vol.6(3), pp.251-279
- Publisher
- Wiley
- DOI
- 10.1111/aphw.12027
- PMID
- 24919454
- ISSN
- 1758-0846
- eISSN
- 1758-0854
- Number of pages
- 29
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000867, name: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, award: 63597
- Comment
- Test development: Brief Inventory of Thriving (BIT)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/2014
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984380482802771
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