The Engagement, Perseverance, Optimism, Connectedness, and Happiness (EPOCH) Measure of Adolescent Well-Being (Kern, M. L., Benson, L., Steinberg, E. A., and Steinberg, L. [2016]. The EPOCH measure of adolescent well-being. Psychological Assessment, 28, 586-597) is a recently developed and validated scale to assess adolescent well-being and positive functioning. This measure includes five dimensions of developmental assets (i.e., EPOCH) that can foster adolescents’ well-being, physical health, and other social-emotional outcomes. Prior studies have tested measure equivalence across demographic, cultural, and language groups. The current study examined the validity of the EPOCH measure, using a national sample of adolescents from socioeconomically disadvantaged families (n = 3444) in the United States. Consistent with theoretical expectations, confirmatory factor analyses supported the hypothesized first-order and second-order factor structure. The overall EPOCH scale and its subscales were also associated as expected with adolescents’ depression, anxiety, behavior problems, delinquency, school connectedness, and social skills. Findings provide empirical support for the EPOCH and its underlying multidimensional theory of adolescent well-being. Unexpectedly, the dimension of engagement was not found to be highly related to other dimensions, and its items had low factor loadings on the EPOCH construct in the current data. Implications of the study are described and directions for future research discussed.

青少年幸福感的参与度，毅力，乐观度，联系性和幸福感（EPOCH）（Kern，ML，Benson，L.，Steinberg，EA和Steinberg，L. [2016]。青少年EPOCH测量值是，心理评估，28，586-597）是最近开发并验证的规模，以评估青少年福祉和积极的运作。这项措施包括五个方面的发展资产（即EPOCH），可以促进青少年的福祉，身体健康和其他社会情感成果。先前的研究已经测试了人口，文化和语言群体之间的等价性。当前的研究使用了来自社会经济处于不利地位的家庭的青少年样本（n= 3444）。与理论预期一致，验证性因素分析支持假设的一阶和二阶因子结构。总体上，EPOCH量表及其子量表还与青少年的抑郁，焦虑，行为问题，犯罪，学校联系和社交技能有关。研究结果为EPOCH及其潜在的青少年幸福多维理论提供了经验支持。出乎意料的是，没有发现参与的维度与其他维度高度相关，并且其项目在当前数据中对EPOCH构造的因子负荷较低。描述了研究的意义，并讨论了未来研究的方向。