Nimisha Beri and Amita Sharma
Lovely Professional University
The aim of the present study is to analyze psychometric properties of orientation to
happiness scale by Peterson, Park, & Seligman, (2005) on an Indian sample. Present
scale was tested on a sample 540 senior secondary school students both from public
and private institutes. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that 18 item 3 factor model
of orientation to happiness demonstrated a better fit model on Indian sample. Though
the internal consistency Cronbach’s alpha was acceptable for three sub-constructs
(meaning, pleasure, and engagement), and that of complete scale were found higher,
the scale also provides good evidence of composite reliability (CR) as the CR value
ranges from 0.84 to 0.85, further the results also shows that the orientation to happiness
possess a good construct validity as AVE for all the three factors is 0.50. Therefore the
results of the study based on internal consistency, composite reliability, and construct
validity confirms adequate psychometric properties for construct orientation to happiness
.