Factor Structure of Urdu Version of the Flourishing Scale

@article{Choudhry2018FactorSO,
  title={Factor Structure of Urdu Version of the Flourishing Scale},
  author={Fahad Riaz Choudhry and Yaser Mohammed Al-Worafi and Bushra Akram and Mirza Ashfaq Ahmed and Muhammad Anwar ul Haq and Tahir Mehmood Khan and Inayat Ur Rehman and Nadia Barki and Khadeeja Munawar and Anila Kamal and Yaman Walid Kassab and Faizah Safina Bakrin and Karen Jennifer Golden},
  journal={Frontiers in Psychology},
  year={2018},
  volume={9},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:52295279}
}
The findings suggest that the FS is a psychometrically sound instrument for assessing social psychological functioning among adults in Pakistan and the validated Urdu version of the FS may be used in future studies of well-being in clinical psychology and positive psychology.
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