Validating a real‐time, single‐item subjective well‐being measure with the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) in US and Indian samples

George Dewey, Hiroyasu Ando, Ryunosuke Goto, Megan Lu, Asako Miura, Akihiro Nishi
PCN Reports
4(3):e70140
July 6, 2025

The real‐time, single‐item subjective well‐being (SWB) question could reflect the participants’ positive and negative psychological states in our experimental setting. In other words, the single‐item SWB measure exhibited sufficient construct validity for both major subcomponents of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule.

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