Objective: This study intended to explore if positive emotion of well-being has a dual-dimension or unidimension. Methods: A sample of 203 college students participated in an open-ended survey, 403 college students participated in preliminary survey, and two samples of 716 college students and 381 adults completed Emotional Experience of Well-being Questionnaire (EEWBQ), Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE), Questionnaire for Eudaimonic Well-Being, Personal Growth Subscale from Psychological Well-being Scale, Need Satisfaction Questionnaire, Satisfaction with Life Scale. Results: Emotional Experience of Well-being Questionnaire included three dimensions of eudaimonia-related experience, satisfaction-related experience and negative emotion with 27 items. The reliability for college students sample was Cronbach α=0.899, and that for adults sample was Cronbach α=0.906. The variance of the dual-dimension positive emotion of well-being to life satisfaction increased by 6.8% after adding eudaimonia-related experience dimension. Conclusion: Positive emotion dimension of well-being included two dimensions of eudemonia-related experience and satisfaction-related experience, and Emotional Experience of Well-being Questionnaire was a better measure of subjective experience of well-being.
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