Academic Happiness Questionnaire (AHQ): A Tool Construction and Standardization

Abstract

A line in the World Happiness Report 2023 states that “our success as countries should be judged by the happiness of our people”. Going by this statement, ‘Can the very same be applied in the classroom to evaluate the happiness of the children?’. Therefore, an attempt is made to measure one such things among the students in the context of their academics. Academic Happiness Questionnaire (AHQ) is such tool which measure students Happiness. The study intends to standardize a tool for measuring Happiness among the candidates on the basis of academics which is named as Academic Happiness Questionnaire. The preliminary draft consists of 14 items with 4 factors namely Institution, Teachers, Family and Friends, which were piloted among 73 graduates. ‘t’ test and the internal consistency measure (Cronbach’s alpha) were used to standardize the items. On completion of analyses the final draft consists of 13 questions with four factors having the internal consistency reliability (Cronbach’s alpha) values as 0.761, 0.888, 0.832 and 0.809 makes the tool reliable for the main study.