Measuring Multidimensional Subjective Well Being with the I COPPE Scale in a Hispanic Sample
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to provide initial validity evidence for measuring multidimensional subjective well being in a Hispanic sample with the Interpersonal, Community, Occupational, Physical, Psychological, Economic (I COPPE) Scale. Participants were 641 English speaking adults who self identified as Hispanic. Bi factor analyses were used to evaluate (a) the a priori measurement theory for responses to the I COPPE Scale and (b) convergent relationships of the seven I COPPE subjective well being factors with scores from established comparison instruments. There was evidence that (a) the a priori hypothesized measurement theory for responses to the I COPPE Scale emerged in an exploratory bi factor analysis and (b) the I COPPE subjective well being factors exhibited convergent relationships with scores from comparison instruments. Use of the I COPPE Scale to derive multidimensional measures of subjective well being may be of potential utility to future research in the interdisciplinary study of human movement and in a diversity of populations in which health disparities may exist.
Measurement in physical education and exercise science