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  • Psychometrics
  • Health and Wellness Coaching
  • Well-being Measurement

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  • The Well-being Coaching Inventory (WCI) was developed to assess interconnected, whole-person well-being.
  • The initial 49-item inventory comprised four dimensions: Mind, Body, Work, and Life.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To psychometrically test and validate the Well-being Coaching Inventory (WCI).
  • To establish the WCI as a reliable measure for health and wellness coaching (HWC).

Main Methods:

  • The WCI underwent three studies to assess face, convergent, and predictive validity.
  • Methods included expert judgment, correlational analyses, and factor analyses (confirmatory and exploratory structural equation modeling).

Main Results:

  • The WCI was refined to a 20-item scale demonstrating convergent validity.
  • Statistical analyses across two large samples (n=261, n=531) supported the inventory's validity.
  • Predictive validity was established through correlation with theoretically related concepts.

Conclusions:

  • The Well-being Coaching Inventory (WCI) is a valid, applicable, and reliable scale.
  • The WCI serves as a central outcome measure for HWC research and practice.
  • This instrument will assist HWC practitioners and researchers.