This is a list of metrics used in VIVID, that help us measure our progress and improve our personal change plans over time.

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If you can’t find a metric you’d like to use, we can simply create it for you.

Before requesting new metrics, please:

• Search for the metric on this page. 
• Take note that we have a preference for metrics that require fewer questions from users.
• If you can’t find your metric, please contact us through the app - you can do so by taking a screenshot anywhere on the app, or through the homepage menu.

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Most of these metrics are used in academic social science research, unless they’re described as “created by VIVID’s team”. Metrics created by our team are either shorter versions of academic scales, or metrics that are intended to help the measuring process of plans in the specific context VIVID.

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Wellbeing and happiness

Life satisfaction (short)

Subjective Wellbeing is the most widely-used construct measured within the social sciences. This single question is often used as a proxy for this construct.

It is thought that Subjective Wellbeing consists of several dimensions. This specific metric is oriented towards the dimension of life satisfaction (and highly correlates with longer life-satisfaction questionnaire scales). Broader scales for wellbeing can be found below.

Additional sources for rationale:

• https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1404&context=edu_fac
• https://www.happierlivesinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/The-measurement-of-wellbeing.pdf

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UK's Measuring National Well-Being Programme

Subjective Wellbeing is the most widely-used construct measured within the social sciences. It is considered to consist of several dimensions: Evaluative well-being (life satisfaction), eudaimonic well-being (purpose/meaning in life), hedonic well-being (positive affect), and hedonic ill-being (negative affect).

This scale is based on the UK National Surveys (as recommended in contexts where fewer questions are needed).

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Self-esteem

Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE)

The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale is a 10-item scale for global self-worth by measuring both positive and negative feelings about the self. 

Although it is a popular scale used in social sciences for measuring self-esteem, we’ve decided not to include it, as SISE (see below) serves as a better alternative that requires much fewer questions. SISE has strong convergent validity with the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and has similar predictive validity as the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. We’re open to changing our minds about this - please feel free to approach us to discuss this topic.

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Single-item Self-Esteem Scale (SISE)

The Single-item Self-Esteem Scale is a one-item measure of global self-esteem, originally designed as an alternative to using the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (see above).

Additional metrics

We’re still updating this page according to the metrics in VIVID - stay tuned.

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