Psychological flourishing Validation of the French version of the Flourishing Scale and exploration of its relationships with personality traits》.pdf

Personality and Individual Differences 88 (2016) 1–5 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Personality and Individual Differences journal homepage: /locate/paid Psychological flourishing: Validation of the French version of the Flourishing Scale and exploration of its relationships with personality traits Arnaud Villieux a,⁎, Laurent Sovet b, Sung-Cheol Jung c, Laure Guilbert d a University of Rouen (Normandy), UFR des sciences de lHomme et de la société, Equipe ACTION, Laboratoire PSY-NCA, EA 4700, Rue Lavoisier, 76821 Mont Saint Aignan, France b Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France c The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, South Korea d University of Montpellier 3 — Paul Valéry, France a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The purpose of this paper was to test the psychometric properties of the French version of the Flourishing Scale Received 18 February 2015 (FS, Diener et al., 2010) as a means to investigate the relationships between psychological flourishing and Received in revised form 2 August 2015 Big-Five personality traits. Participants for the study were 403 French sophomore students. Confirmatory factor Accepted 10 August 2015 analyses provided support for a single construct and an invariant structure of FS. Results revealed good fits in con- Available online xxxx vergent validity through well-being related variables and the scale demonstrated satisfactory internal reliability.