Measuring Multidimensional Subjective Well-Being with the I COPPE Scale in a Hispanic Sample

The purpose of this study was to provide initial validity evidence for measuring multidimensional subjective well-being in a Hispanic sample with the Interpersonal, Community, Occupational, Physical, Psychological, Economic ( I COPPE) Scale. Participants were 641 English-speaking adults who self-identified as Hispanic. Bi-factor analyses were used to evaluate ( a) the a priori measurement theory for responses to the I COPPE Scale and ( b) convergent relationships of the seven I COPPE subjective well-being factors with scores from established comparison instruments. There was evidence that ( a) the a priori hypothesized measurement theory for responses to the I COPPE Scale emerged in an exploratory bifactor analysis and ( b) the I COPPE subjective well-being factors exhibited convergent relationships with scores from comparison instruments. Use of the I COPPE Scale to derive multidimensional measures of subjective well-being may be of potential utility to future research in the interdisciplinary study of human movement and in a diversity of populations in which health disparities may exist.