The book contributes to the vast field of research in psychometrics as well as to the growing field of positive psychology. It analyses the development and validation of several constructs of positive psychology like resilience, flow, mindfulness, spirituality, and intrapersonal and interpersonal strengths. The chapters discuss the test construction process and develop scales for constructs that are validated on the Indian population. In most Indian behavioral research, psychological tests from the West are employed without assessing psychometric properties in India. However, establishing validation of psychological tests in a new culture is necessary in order to claim results based on these tests. Hence, this book bridges this gap in positive psychology and its allied fields and develops and standardizes these scales for the Indian population. The new constructed and validated scales have undergone rigorous statistical screening. Psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers interested in studying well-being in India and in understanding how to create psychometric scales for non-Western populations will find the book useful for their research.
Chapter 1. Positive Psychology in India: A review.- Chapter 2. Norms in Test Construction.- Chapter 3. The Assessment of Resilience.- Chapter 4. Flow-Scale Construction & Validation.- Chapter 5. Mindfulness and its Assessment.- Chapter 6. Spirituality and its Assessment.- Chapter 7. Well-being and its Assessment.- Chapter 8. Development and Validation of new Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Strengths Measures. “The format for each presentation is very consistent, making it easy for the reader to follow the process. … This book is likely to be a worthwhile reference for anyone interested in the study of positive psychology in those contexts. … this book offers a potentially useful set of tools for researchers in positive psychology working in India and so contributes to the efforts at internationalizing this field.” (Robert E. McGrath, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (14), April, 2017)
Kamlesh Singh (Ph. D Psychology), joined the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi in 2004 and has about 20 year experience in research and teaching. Main areas of her research interest are positive psychology, applied positive psychology, psychometrics, community psychology, and rural women and adolescents. Kamlesh Singh has to her credit 65 published papers in the peer reviewed national and international journals and 14 book chapters. She has also presented about 60 papers at national and international conferences. She has been teaching courses like positive psychology and psychological testing at IIT Delhi, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore and IIM Ranchi. With her ongoing teaching and various research projects in positive psychology, Kamlesh Singh is also on board of directors of the International Association of Positive Psychology (IPPA) and secretary and founder member of National Positive Psychology Association (NPPA). She has also recently joined as Associate Editor, Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology.
The book contributes to the vast field of research in psychometrics as well as to the growing field of positive psychology. It analyses the development and validation of several constructs of positive psychology like resilience, flow, mindfulness, spirituality, and intrapersonal and interpersonal strengths. The chapters discuss the test construction process and develop scales for constructs that are validated on the Indian population. In most Indian behavioral research, psychological tests from the West are employed without assessing psychometric properties in India. However, establishing validation of psychological tests in a new culture is necessary in order to claim results based on these tests. Hence, this book bridges this gap in positive psychology and its allied fields and develops and standardizes these scales for the Indian population. The new constructed and validated scales have undergone rigorous statistical screening. Psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers interested in studying well-being in India and in understanding how to create psychometric scales for non-Western populations will find the book useful for their research.
First book to document the development and validation of various positive psychology constructs on Indian population in English and Hindi
Covers each construct adequately, thus providing an in-depth understanding of the construct at global and Indian scenarios
Discusses psychometric procedures in detail along with rigorous statistical screening
