Standardization of Isfahan-Fordyce Happiness Inventory in University Students

The aim of this study was to provide st and a rd t ables for Isfa han-Fo rdyce HappinessInventory(IFHI).TheHappiness Inventory was originally develop ed by Eyse nck (1990) b ased o n fou rt e en fundamental of happiness. The inventory was translated into farsi and revised in the Un iversity of Isfahan. Considering the ava ilable literature in farsi, a sk ill of "exp ressing emot ion" was added to the inventory and it was named as IFHI. The revised inventory was applied in Isfahan universities using 727 students. As a result of transferring of the row scores to Z, T and p e rcent ile ranks, stand ard-tables for happiness skills were separatly developed. However, before develop ing the standardtables psychometiric characteristics of the IFHI were determined as; content validity of the Farsi version of Fordyce Happ iness Inventory was approved by five academic members working in the School of Education and Psychology in the University ofIsfahan; concurrent validity was established based on the correlation between the scores of the Oxford Happ iness Inventory and IFHI; validity of the inventory determined by Abedi (2002) could differentiate the depressed and non-deppresed students; and the internal reliab ility, using alp ha, in a sample of (N=727) students was 0.92, and via six-week test-retest in a sample of 50 students, it was 0.7. F in ally, educat ion al exp erts and couselors can use the IFHI for their clients as well as planning for "happiness education" in Iran.