The Psychometric Analysis Of Indonesian Happiness Scale

This measures related to happiness in Indonesia society is still need to be developed, since it has been related to positive psychology. Positive psychology is a field of study that discusses about humans function in a positive and optimal way to carry out their daily tasks. If happiness is not addressed well then it will emerge various psychological problems such as discontinuity and despair in life that led to the decline in life expectancy and integrity because of irrelevance in viewing themselves and life. This study aim to develop a measurement of happiness that can be used by practitioners in developmental psychology field to be able to help people in Indonesia to describe their happiness. The variable measured in this study is happiness. Which the concept of happiness is used based on hedonic and eudaimonic aspects. The hedonic aspect refers to the theory of the Diener where the principle of happiness is based on subjective wellbeing, which is positive feelings and life satisfaction. While eudaimonic aspect refers to the theory of Ryff based on psychological well-being, namely autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, positive relations, purpose in life, and self-acceptance. The measurement of Indonesian happiness scale using descriptive research method, subject are 65 people with middle adulthood criteria in Malang city. Subjects fill out the happiness scale questionnaire that has been developed by the researcher. There are 95 items related to the happiness scale and after the research had been done the total valid item is 79 items with corrected item-total correlation between 0.323-0.738 and reliability coefficient is 0.963. Another test is using confirmatory factor analysis which shows that the model is fit where each aspects of hedonic and audaimonic can explain the variable of happiness