A Study of Reliability and Validity of Depression-Happiness Scale (DHS)

The main objective in this study was to examine the reliability and validity of Depression-Happiness Scale (DHS). Therefore, a sample of students from Islamic Azad University of Azadshahr was randomly chosen. The reliability of DHS was tested through three methods of Cronbach's alpha, test-retest. The correlation coefficients were and respectively. The validity of DHS was evaluated through construct validity and administration of both Oxford Happiness Inventory (OHI) and Beck depressing Inventory (BDI). A significant positive correlation coefficient of emerged between DHS and OHI this correlation for BDI was with. In general, The Persian Version of Depressing-Happiness Scale showed to have fairly acceptable level of reliability and validity.