Within the past several decades, scholars have expressed concerns regarding the psychometric properties of global, retrospective self-reports of well-being (e.g., life satisfaction scales). This has led to the development of purportedly psychometrically superior experiential measures of well-being, such as the day reconstruction method. However, relatively few studies have directly compared the psychometric properties of global and experiential well-being measures. The present study was a one-month longitudinal design in which we collected up to three measures of (1) global well-being and (2) experiential well-being as measured via the day reconstruction method. These data were used to examine the temporal stability in both types of measures. Moreover, we also examined the criterion-related validity of global and experiential well-being by examining their correlations with theoretically-relevant variables. Results indicated that the majority of variance in all well-being variables was stable across one month—with global life satisfaction being the most stable and experiential negative affect being the least stable. Moreover, in our study, the criterion-related validities for global and experiential well-being were similar. These results seem to affirm the reliability and validity of global measures, and suggest that global and experiential measures of well-being may have similar psychometric properties.

在过去的几十年中，学者们对幸福感的全球回顾性自我报告（例如，生活满意度量表）的心理测量特性表示担忧。这导致了据称心理测量学上优越的幸福感体验措施的发展，例如日间重建方法。然而，相对较少的研究直接比较了全球和体验幸福感测量的心理测量特性。本研究是一个为期一个月的纵向设计，我们收集了多达三个测量值，即（1）全球幸福感和（2）通过日间重建方法测量的体验幸福感。这些数据用于检查两种测量的时间稳定性。而且，我们还通过检验它们与理论相关变量的相关性来检验全球和体验幸福感的标准相关效度。结果表明，所有幸福变量的大部分方差在一个月内都是稳定的——全球生活满意度最稳定，体验负面影响最不稳定。此外，在我们的研究中，全球幸福感和体验幸福感的标准相关效度相似。这些结果似乎证实了全局测量的可靠性和有效性，并表明幸福的全局和体验测量可能具有相似的心理测量特性。结果表明，所有幸福变量的大部分方差在一个月内都是稳定的——全球生活满意度最稳定，体验负面影响最不稳定。此外，在我们的研究中，全球幸福感和体验幸福感的标准相关效度相似。这些结果似乎证实了全局测量的可靠性和有效性，并表明幸福的全局和体验测量可能具有相似的心理测量特性。结果表明，所有幸福变量的大部分方差在一个月内都是稳定的——全球生活满意度最稳定，体验负面影响最不稳定。此外，在我们的研究中，全球幸福感和体验幸福感的标准相关效度相似。这些结果似乎证实了全局测量的可靠性和有效性，并表明幸福的全局和体验测量可能具有相似的心理测量特性。