Is Bradburn's Measure of Psychological Well-Being Fair to Introverts? a Study among 16- to 18-YR.-Old Students

A sample of 242 students between the ages of 16 and 18 years, attending schools in the North East of England, completed the Bradburn Balanced Affect Scale together with the abbreviated form of the Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. The findings show that scores on the Bradburn scale (indicating psychological well-being as assessed by balanced affect) are correlated significantly and positively with scores for Extraversion (.25), negatively with Neuroticism (.52) and nonsignificantly with Psychoticism. The implications of these Endings are discussed for the assessment of psychological well-being among introverts.