Is Bradburn's measure of psychological well-being fair to introverts? A study among 16-to 18-yr.-old students

A sample of 242 students between the ages of 16 and 18 years, attending sch ools in the North East of England, completed the Bradburn Balanced Affect S cale together with the abbreviated form of the Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. The findings show that scores on the Bradburn scale (indicat ing psychological well-being as assessed by balanced affect) are correlated significantly and positively with scores for Extraversion (.25), negativel y with Neuroticism (.52) and nonsignificantly with Psychoticism. The implic ations of these findings are discussed for the assessment of psychological well-being among introverts.