| AJOPA | African Journal of Psychological Assessment |
| BRS | Brief Resilience Scale |
| CFA | Confirmatory factor analysis |
| DHS | Dispositional Hope Scale |
| EFA | Exploratory factor analysis |
| ESEM | Exploratory Structural Equation Modelling |
| FORQ | Fortitude Questionnaire |
| GPW | General Psychological Well-Being |
| GPWS | General Psychological Well-Being Scale |
| GSE | Generalised Self-Efficacy |
| IRT | Item Response Theory |
| LRI | Life Regards Index |
| MHC | Mental Health Continuum |
| MLQ | Meaning in life Questionnaire |
| ODL | Open- and distance-learning |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| OHQ | Orientations to Happiness Questionnaire |
| PANAS | Positive and Negative Affect Schedule |
| PERMA | Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment |
| PRISMA | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses |
| PWB | Psychological Well-being |
| QEWB | Questionnaire for eudaimonic well-being |
| ROT | Religion Orientation Test |
| SASS | South African Spirituality Scale |
| SEM | Structural equation modelling |
| SOC | Sense of Coherence |
| SWB | Subjective Well-Being |
| SWLS | Satisfaction with Life Scale |