Developing a Social Evolutionary Measure of Child and Adolescent Hedonic and Eudaimonic Wellbeing in Rural Sierra Leone

Abstract The study establishes the validity of a new measure child and adolescent hedonic eudaimonic wellbeing designed for international use based on social evolutionary theory. advances fields psychometrics happiness studies by providing first a-contextual assessment both that is suitable with children adolescents. Child Adolescent Personal Social Assessment Wellbeing contains brief (8-items) children’s global hedonia eudaimonia, domain specific measures (8-items each) in relation to peers, teachers, families. To develop measure, we conducted mixed methods investigation rural Sierra Leone. We researched ecological conceptual framework qualitative 40 participants (19 21 adults) living two communities. developed quantitative items through two-phase pilot 200 ten examined psychometric properties data, larger dataset generated 2324 95 results showed experienced components (e.g., acceptance) their daily lives, each component was intertwined indigenous perspectives wellbeing. demonstrated had good dimensional, concurrent, predictive validity.