perma: Calculate the PERMA Profiler

Description Usage Arguments Note References Examples

Description

This function renames columns; converts all columns to numerics; tests if the scores are outside of the scale limits; and calculates domain scores for Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment, General health, Negative emotion, and overall wellbeing.

Usage

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perma(start_col, end_col, data)

Arguments

start_col

The column number where the scale begins, reference by number only.

end_col

The column number where the scale end, reference by number only.

data

The reference dataframe.

Note

This function is designed to work with the validated question order as printed in the reference article. This function will give inaccurate results if question order is different from the published validated scale.

References

Butler, J., & Kern, M. L. (2016). The PERMA-Profiler: A brief multidimensional measure of flourishing. International Journal of Wellbeing, 6(3), 1-48.

Examples

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x <- c(0:10)
df <- data.frame(matrix(sample(x, 10*23, replace = TRUE), nrow = 5, ncol = 23))
perma(1, 23, df)

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