The Strength spotting Scale: Reliability and Validity Study in Turkish Population

What makes some of us stronger, happier, and more satisfied than the norm. What may be strengths character in subjective wellbeing? It involves encouraging people to invest in developing their strengths and also learning to think differently about both good and bad events and appreciating that there is more than one path to an emotionally satisfying life. The aims of the present study is to investigate and examine the relability and validity study of Strengthspotting Scale in Turkish population. The scale is administered to Turkish population including university students. Internal consistency and test-retest reliability, factor analysis, and correlations with good convergent validity revealed the instrument had satisfactory psychometric values, indicating that it can be validly and reliably used in normal and clinical populations. (C) 2009 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Dr. Zafer Bekirogullari of Y.B.