Volume 29, Issue 4, 2020
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.857
THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION SCALE SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING ON PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH POSTLINGUAL DEAFNESS DISABILITY
Abstract
Subjective well-being has been studied extensively, as well as efforts to develop relevant indicators to reveal well-being, but in expressing the subjective well-being of parents with children with special needs, it is still limited. On the other hand, an instrument to see the subjective well-being of parents who have children with special needs is needed depending on several studies which state that the well-being of a child can be determined, one of which is from parents’ well-being. This study aims to develop a subjective well-being measurement instrument in the context of parents who have postlingual deafness children. The scale developed in the review of research reviews conducted by Diener. The steps for arranging the instrument began with compiling a blueprint, conducting content validation, empirical testing, item differences, and confirmatory factor analysis testing. Respondents who were involved in this study were 336 people (168 fathers and 168 mothers) who have postlingual deafness children who live in West Java, Indonesia. The results of the analysis of the subjective well-being instruments for parents who have postlingual deafness children showed that 30 items that can be compiled a satisfactory psychometric property in terms of content validity, item differences, and construct validity.
Keywords
Confirmatory factor analysis, scale development, well-being, parents