Name: Friedman Life Balance Scale

Short name: FLBS

Focus Area: Life Balance

Overview: The Friedman Life Balance Scale measures the ability to easily reflect, sort out and clarify things in life; understand and connect with oneself and others; and easily engage in self-forgiveness, self-compassion and self-love.

Total number of items: 17

Administration: Self-report

Standardized cadence: Weekly

Supported subscales: 1. Reflect, Clarify, Sort (questions 1 – 5), 2. Understand Self and Others (questions 6 – 10), and 3. Self-Forgive, Compassion, Love (questions 11 – 15).

In Blueprint, Spirituality is formatted as a fourth subscale and includes questions 16 and 17.

Age range: Adult

Scoring and interpretation: Answers are scored on a 6-point Likert scale from 0 for "Not at all" to 5 for "A great deal." The most useful result are the subscale totals. Add the scores for each question in the subscale to find a total. Total subscale scores range from 0 to 25 for the first three and official subscales. Total subscale scores range from 0 to 10 for the unofficial Spirituality subscale (questions 16 and 17).

Additional information:

All information from http://friedmanscales.com/life-balance-scale/