Construction Of A Scale For Measuring Social Welfare With Its Emphasis on Subjective Well-Being (Feeling Welfare)

Following the turn of paradigm in the discourse of social welfare and the dimensions of subjective well-being, the issue of building the this scale to measure social welfare has become important more than ever. Moreover no considerable effort has been made for this purpose before. After making conceptual model to explain subjective well-being, in this research a questionnaire was designed to measure the social welfare. In its pilot study in Oromiyeh with 51 random samples, results showed value of KMO was 0.696 and the result of Bartlett test was meaningful as well. Also amount of Cronbach's Alpha was 0.856. So due to different assessing methods, this questionnaire enjoys the necessary level of reliability and validity.