The study of life satisfaction ruut veenhoven chapter 1 in. Below are five statements that you may agree or disagree with. The scale usually requires only about one minute of a respondents time. Correlation of the lisat9 is high for the satisfaction with life scale spearmans r0. Methods from classical test theory, factor analysis and item response theory are. Larsen and sharon griffin as noted in the 1985 article in the. Dirisa sekale sa 1 7 go kaya mokgwa o o dumelanang le polelo nngwe le nngwe ka ona mme o.
Swls items and factor loadings swls items and factor loadings the satisfaction with life scale swls is a single scale that is used by unesco, the cia, the new economics foundation. Satisfaction with life scale swls novopsych psychometrics. The scale does not assess satisfaction with life domains such as health or finances but allows subjects to integrate and weight these domains in whatever way they choose. Understanding scores on the satisfaction with life scale ed diener note.
Peer reports, a memory measure, and clinical ratings are used as external criteria for validation. Convergent and discriminant validity was investigated in relation to the quality of marriage index qmi, the satisfaction with life scale. The swls consists of 5items each rated on a 7point scale. Review of the satisfaction with life scale by william. The satisfaction with life scale and the emerging construct of life satisfaction. The swls is a short 5item instrument designed to measure global cognitive judgments of satisfaction with ones life. Review of the satisfaction with life scale springerlink. Multidimensional scale of perceived social support zimet et al. Two studies designed to validate further the swls are reported. Satisfaction with life scale swls the swls is a short 5item instrument designed to measure global cognitive judgments of satisfaction with ones life. The aim of this study was to establish the psychometric properties of the new relationship satisfaction rs scale. Using the 1 7 scale, indicate your agreement with each item. Satisfaction with life scale was developed by diener, emmons, larsen and griffin in 1985. The aim of this study was to compare selfratings of life satisfaction after a tbi with two commonly used instruments.
Below are five statements with which you may agree or disagree. The investigators found that academic life satisfaction is the best predictor of achievement in social studies of secondary school pupils in kerala. No values were reported for the responsiveness of the lisat9 for the sci population. Satisfaction with life scale swls permission to use the scale is ed but you are free to use it without permission or charge by all professionals researchers and practitioners as long as you give credit to the authors of the scale. No values were reported for the presence of floorceiling effects in the lisat9 for the sci population. It is, however, not clear to what extent a single instrument captures all aspects of ls, and different instruments may be needed to comprehensively describe ls. Life satisfaction refers to a cognitive judgement process.
Also, it constitutes one of the most relevant variables within the positive and social psychology to study outcomes in different spheres of. Life satisfaction scale lee kum sheung center for health. Validity of the life satisfaction questions, the life. The scale usually requires only about one minute of a respondents time, where respondents answer on a likert scale. The administration of the swls is brief usually only a few minutes. Academic life satisfaction scale is used to predict the scholastic achievement as an index of academic success. Life satisfaction refers to a persons general happiness, freedom from. Using the 17 scale below, indicate your agreement with each item by circling the number that corresponds to it. Scores on the swls have been shown to correlate with measures of mental health, and be predictive of future behaviours such as suicide attempts. The validity of the satisfaction with life scale in.
This paper presents the psychometric evaluation of the satisfaction with life scale swls. Satisfaction with life scale swls university of illinois. Understanding scores on the satisfaction with life scale. It is used to measure the level of satisfaction of the individual with life. The satisfaction with life scale swls is a multiitem scale developed in the usa by diener, emmons, larsen, and griffin 1985 as a measure of the judgmental component of subjective wellbeing. Although this is a short and simple questionnaire it has been shown to be a reliable assessment of a persons satisfaction with life and an indicator for addressing areas of dissatisfaction. The satisfaction with life scale swls has been used heavily as a measure of the life satisfaction component of subjective wellbeing. Theory and research from fields outside of rehabilitation indicate that subjective wellbeing has at. Satisfaction with life scale swls in caregivers of. It does not attempt to measure constructs such as positive affect or loneliness which measure specific domains.
The satisfaction with life scale was developed to assess satisfaction with peoples lives as a whole. The satisfaction with life scale positive psychology. General life satisfaction of university students are measured using the satisfaction with life scale swls created by diener, emmons, larsen and griffin 1985 and also is translated to turkish as yasam doyum olcegi by koker 1991. An optimal life satisfaction ls is considered an important longterm outcome after a traumatic brain injury tbi. Participants rated their life satisfaction and personalities by responding to statements such as, i tend to be in a good mood, i tend to be a cheerful and highspirited person, i tend to feel. In the original study, 230 portugese undergraduate students with. In order to better understand the scores of the swls. Spinal cord injury sci is a major life event that leads to severe physical disability, and seriously impacts life satisfaction of persons involved. Each item is rated on a 7point scale, ranging from 1 strongly disagree to 7 strongly agree, with a score of 4 neither agree nor disagree, indicating a neutral position on an item. Using the 1 7 scale below, indicate your agreement with each item by placing the appropriate number on the line after that item. Items are summed, yielding a range from 4 to 20 with higher scores indicating lower levels of life satisfaction.
Dieners instructions for taking the short survey questionnaire. The scale does not assess satisfaction with life domains such as health or. Most relevant lists of abbreviations for lss life satisfaction scale. Satisfaction with life scale quiz developed by ed diener at the university of illinois in 2007, the oprah winfrey show used this test to find out who was happiest between a funeral director, a divorced mother and a woman who worked two jobs. On the swls website, the scale is defined as follows. The satisfaction with life scale swls has been widely used and has proven to be a valid and reliable instrument for assessing satisfaction with life in diverse population groups, however, research on satisfaction with life and validation of different measuring instruments in mexican adults is still lacking. Satisfaction with life scale how is satisfaction with. It is a narrowly focused measurement tool designed to assess global life satisfaction. Satisfaction with life is a wide studied component of wellbeing, largely documented along the recent decades. Global quality of life scale 100 perfect quality of life 95 nearly perfect quality of life 90 85 very good quality of life 80 75 70 good quality of life 65 60 moderately good quality of life 55 50 45 40 somewhat bad quality of life 35 30 bad quality of life 25 20 15 very bad quality of life. Swls measures overall satisfaction with a persons life. Satisfaction with life scale positive psychology center.
The satisfaction with life scale swls was developed to assess satisfaction with the respondents life as a whole. Additional assumptions specific to the satisfaction with life scale swls questionnaire are listed below. The unidimensionality of this scale was also supported by exploratory. If you would like to access the swls in english, please select it from the list of translations above. Exploratory factor analysis studies have suggested that this scale is unidimensional diener et al.
The scale does not assess satisfaction with specific life domains, such as health or finances, but allows subjects to integrate and weigh these domains in whatever way they choose. Students responded to five items on a 7pont likert scale ranging from strongly agree 7 to. Journal of positive psychology, 3, 7152 our thinking is very changeable. If we divide by the number of questions, rather than use the summed aggregate score, then the cutoffs below instead should be. Outcome measure satisfaction with life scale swls sensitivity to change yes population adult domain healthrelated quality of life type of measure selfreport icfcodes e4 description the swls diener et al. Netos 2005 satisfaction with love life scale swlls is a variant of the satisfaction with life scale, which you can also find here in the psytoolkit survey library. Life satisfaction ls is the way in which people show their emotions, feelings moods and how they feel about their directions and options for the future. Review of the satisfaction with life scale 103 persons conscious evaluation of her or his life circumstances may re. Imagepdf sample pdf, tiff to pdf, jpeg to pdf created date. If you worked on changing your thinking everyday by reading, listening to the audio exercises, and completing a cognitive diary. Life satisfaction is one factor in the more general construct of subjective wellbeing.
Using the 17 scale below, indicate your agreement with each item by placing the appropriate number in the line preceding that item. It consists of only five items using a 1 to 7 point likert scale. The norwegian mother and child cohort study moba, n117,178 and the quality of life study n347. The scale is in the public domain not ed and therefore you are free to use it without permission or charge by. Psychometric properties of the satisfaction with life. The study aims at validating the temporal satisfaction with life scale tswls. The objective was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the satisfaction with. Using the 1 7 scale below indicate your agreement with each item by placing the. The relationship satisfaction scale psychometric properties. The satisfaction with life scale swls is a measure of life satisfaction developed by ed diener and colleagues diener et al, 1985. Using the 17 scale below, indicate your agreement with each item by placing the appropriate number on the line preceding that item.
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