Introduction

The Positive Mindset Index (PMI) is a short and easy to complete to measure people’s mental health. The PMI has been validated and has been used in a good number of studies.

For an excellent overview, check out this website.

According to Seager, Sullivan, and Barry (2014):

This scale consists of six items (happiness, confidence, being in control, emotional stability, motivation and optimism). The PMI shows good internal reliability (Cronbach’s α = 0.926) and good concurrent validity (r = .678) with the psychological subscale of the SF-36. The norm for the PMI is 3.30.

In other words, the average in the population is 3.30.

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Legal stuff

The MPI be used for research, but you need to acknowledge the authors and their research paper when writing about it (Barry, Folkard, & Ayliffe, 2014).

Technically

This is a simple multiradio question.

The survey code for PsyToolkit

Copy and paste this code to your PsyToolkit account if you want to use the scale in your own online research project
l: PMI
t: multiradio 5
o: free
q: Please say how much you are feeling the following at this moment in time.<BR>
Please select one of the options (e.g. "happy" or "unhappy" for the words in each box, indicating how you are feeling at this moment.
- Very unhappy
- Unhappy
- Moderately happy
- Happy
- Very happy
- Very unconfident
- Unconfident
- Moderately confident
- Confident
- Very confident
- Very out of control
- Out of control
- Moderately in control
- In control
- Very in control
- Very unstable
- Unstable
- Moderately stable
- Stable
- Very stable
- Very unmotivated
- Unmotivated
- Moderately motivated
- Motivated
- Very motivated
- Very pessimistic
- Pessimistic
- Moderately optimistic
- Optimistic
- Very optimistic


l: PMIfeedback
t: info
q: Your Positive Mindset Index (PMI) score is {$PMI}.
The score can range between 1 and 5 points, with 3 as the midpoint.
The population average is 3.30.

References

  • Barry, J. A., Folkard, A., & Ayliffe, W. (2014). Validation of a brief questionnaire measuring positive mindset in patients with uveitis. Psychology, Community & Health, 3(1), 1-10. Open Access PDF

  • Seager, M., Sullivan, L., & Barry, J. (2014). Gender-Related Schemas and Suicidality: Validation of the Male and Female Traditional Gender Scripts Questionnaires. New Male Studies, 3(3), 34-54. Open Access PDF