. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.

Published in final edited form as: Psychol Aging. 2013 Feb 18;28(2):304–313. doi: 10.1037/a0031196

Table 4.

Psychometric Information on Different Dimensions of Well Being

Well Being Dimension	Mean	SD	Alpha	Correlations
Well Being Dimension	Mean	SD	Alpha	Growth	Pos. Rel.	Accept	Autonomy	Mastery
Purpose in life	4.95	0.95	0.20	0.40	0.29	0.32	0.14	0.32
Personal growth	5.52	0.83	0.46		0.39	0.40	0.24	0.33
Positive relations	5.59	0.98	0.55			0.44	0.27	0.36
Self acceptance	5.39	0.96	0.61				0.37	0.56
Autonomy	5.46	0.93	0.62					0.40
Environmental mastery	5.53	0.92	0.64

Note. Alpha refers to Cronbach’s coefficient alpha. For all correlations, p ≤ 0.001. N=560. SD, standard deviation.