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The objective of this study was to investigate the substantive aspect of construct validity of the Satisfaction with Life
Scale adapted for Children (SWLS-C; Gadermann et al. in Soc Indic Res 96:229–247, 2010). Specifically, the study examined the cognitive processes of children when responding to the items of the SWLS-C to find
out how they interpret and respond to the items. Think-aloud protocol interviews were conducted with 55 students in grades
4–7 (58% girls, mean age of 11 years, ranging from 8.8 to 12.8 years) and content analysis was used to analyze the data. The
findings indicate that most children had no difficulty in understanding the items, and used mainly two strategies for responding
to the items: (1) an absolute strategy, in which children used absolute statements to indicate the presence or absence of
something that is important for their judgment of their satisfaction with life, and (2) a relative strategy, in which children
used relative or comparative statements. In the absolute statements, children primarily referred to social relationships,
personal characteristics, time use, and possessions. In the relative statements, the children primarily compared what they
have to (a) what they want (b) what they had in the past, (c) what other people have, and (d) what they feel they need. Furthermore,
most children considered it important that information on their life satisfaction is obtained. The results are discussed with
regard to multiple discrepancies theory (Michalos in Soc Indic Res 16:347–413, 1985) and previous empirical findings. The results provide insights into children’s cognitive processes when responding to items
on life satisfaction and provide validity evidence that the SWLS-C is an appropriate measure to assess life satisfaction in
children of this age. 相似文献
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Gratitude and Adolescent Athletes’ Well-Being 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Two cross-sectional studies were conducted to examine the relationships between gratitude and athletes’ well-being. Study
1 examines the relationship between dispositional gratitude and well-being, while Study 2 investigates the relationship between
sport-domain gratitude and well-being. In Study 1, 169 Taiwanese senior high school athletes (M = 16.43, SD = 0.7 years) were
administered the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ; McCullough et al. 2002, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82(1), 112–127), Team Satisfaction Scale (Walling et al. 1993, Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 15, 172–183), Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS; Diener et al. 1985, Journal of Personality Assessment, 49, 71–75), and the Athlete Burnout Questionnaire (ABQ; Raedeke and Smith, 2001, Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 23(4), 281–306). In Study 2, a separate sample of 265 adolescent athletes (M = 16.47 years, SD = 0.7) were administered the
modified Sport-domain GQ, Team Satisfaction Scale, and ABQ. Study 1 results showed that dispositional gratitude positively
predicts team satisfaction and life satisfaction, and negatively predicts athlete burnout. Findings from Study 2 revealed
that sport-domain gratitude positively predicts team satisfaction and negatively predicts athlete burnout. A stronger gratitude
and well-being relationship was observed in Study 2. This research provides the initial verification that gratitude and adolescent
athletes’ well-being are related. Possible mechanism of this relation, limitations, and practical implications are discussed. 相似文献
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Do We Need to Weight Satisfaction Scores with Importance Ratings in Measuring Quality of Life? 总被引:1,自引:4,他引:1
Trauer and Mackinnon (2001; Quality of life research 10, pp. 579–585) recently proposed that weighting satisfaction scores
by importance ratings in measuring quality of life is undesirable and unnecessary. However, they didn’t use empirical data
to support their claim. In this study, different weighting algorithms developed by Cummins (1997; Comprehensive Quality of
Life Scale – Adult: Manual [Deakin, University Australia]), Raphael et al. (1996; Journal of Adolescent Health 19, pp. 366–375),
Ferrans and Powers (1985; Advances in Nursing Science 8, pp. 15–24) and Frisch (1992; Comprehensive Casebook of Cognitive
Therapy [Plenum Press, New York]) for measuring quality of life (QOL) were applied. Weighted scores computed from these weighting
algorithms were compared with unweighted scores in predicting a global life satisfaction measure by correlation and moderated
regression analyses. One hundred and thirty undergraduate students at National Taiwan University participated in the study
voluntarily. They completed a 15-item questionnaire on quality of campus life developed by the authors. They also completed
the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), a global life satisfaction measure developed by Diener et al. (1985; Journal of Personality
Assessment 49, pp. 71–75). The correlation results revealed that the weighted scores computed from different algorithms didn’t
have higher correlations to the SWLS than the unweighted scores. The moderated regression results also revealed that item
importance did not moderate the relationship between item satisfaction and the overall life satisfaction. All these findings
revealed that weighting satisfaction with importance is unnecessary.
This paper was a part of the first author’s Master Thesis 相似文献
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Valdiney V. Gouveia Taciano L. Milfont Patrícia Nunes da Fonseca Jorge Artur Peçanha de Miranda Coelho 《Social indicators research》2009,90(2):267-277
The aim of this paper was to validate the Brazilian-Portuguese version of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS), presenting
evidence of its reliability and construct and criterion-related validity. A large Brazilian sample (2,180 participants), from
five different populations (undergraduate and high school students, general population, elementary school teachers, and physicians),
was considered. The results confirmed the single factorial structure and reliability (0.77 < Cronbach’s α < 0.88, mean α = 0.81)
of the SWLS. Supporting its criterion-related validity, the SWLS correlated positively with positive affect and negatively
with both negative affect and psychological distress across all five samples. The findings indicate that the Brazilian-Portuguese
version of the SWLS is a valid instrument to use with diverse Brazilian samples. 相似文献
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This study aims to extensively examine the psychometric properties of adapted version of the Satisfaction with Life Scale
(SWLS) in different Turkish samples. In order to test the psychometric properties of the SWLS three separate and independent
samples are utilized in this study, namely university students (n = 547), correctional officers (n = 166), and elderly adults (n = 123). Concerning the reliability of the scale, internal consistency and item-total correlation coefficients are found to
be satisfactory for all three samples. As for the validity studies, concurrent validity of the scale is supported in all three
samples by revealing the association of SWLS with conceptually related measures, which included depression, self-esteem, positive
affect and negative affect, work stress, and monthly income measures. Discriminant validity is examined only in the sample
of university students, and SWLS revealed a non-significant correlation with a conceptually unrelated construct (i.e., willingness
to self-censor). Consistent with the original scale, a single-factor solution model reveals an adequate fit in all three different
samples. Furthermore, confirmatory factor analysis with multi-group comparisons performed demonstrates that SWLS has the same
theoretical structure for three different groups on the basis of a single-factor solution model. The theoretical and practical
implications of this study are discussed. 相似文献
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The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) is one of the most widely used scales for the measurement of subjective well-being
across the globe, but no satisfactory version exists for use among Malay-speaking populations. The present study reports on
the translation of a new Malay SWLS and examines its psychometric properties in a community sample of 816 Malay and 738 Chinese
participants from Malaysia. Results showed that the Malay SWLS had good internal consistency (Cronbach’s α = 0.83). Confirmatory
factor analysis showed support for a unidimensional factor structure which remained invariant across sex and ethnic group.
These results suggest that the Malay SWLS is a valid and reliable measure of life satisfaction for Malay-speaking samples,
and extends the list of available scales for measuring subjective well-being among such groups. 相似文献
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Subjective well-being is an increasingly common indicator of adequacy of psychiatric services. An easy-to-administer assessment
tool of subjective well-being that is conceptually sound, valid, and reliable is needed for use in persons with schizophrenia.
The purpose of this paper was to validate the 5-item Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS)-Taiwan version for persons with schizophrenia
living in the community. Specifically, the internal consistency reliability, construct validity and criterion-related validity
were examined. Data were obtained from a total of 443 patients with schizophrenia at multiple areas of Taiwan. Item analysis
and confirmatory factor analysis were performed. The results revealed that the SWLS had good international consistency reliability
and suggested a single-factor structure in life satisfaction among this patient group. The SWLS has good criterion-related
validity with the brief World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment (WHOQOL-BREF). It is concluded that the SWLS
is a sound measurement to be used with persons with schizophrenia living in the community. 相似文献
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This study examined whether extremely high life satisfaction was associated with adaptive functioning or maladaptive functioning.
Six hundred ninety-eight secondary level students completed the Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale [Huebner, 1991a, School
Psychology International, 12, pp. 231–240], Youth Self-Report of the Child Behavior Checklist [Achenbach and Edelbrock, 1991,
Child Behavior Checklist and Youth Self-Report, Burlington, VT], Abbreviated Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire [Francis,
1996, Personality and Individual Differences, 21, pp. 835–844], Self-Efficacy Questionnaire for Children (Muris, 2001, Journal
of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assesment, 23(3), pp. 145–149], and the Child and Adolescent Social Support Scale (Malecki
and Demaray, 2002, Psychology in Schools, 39, pp. 1–18]. Three groups of students were created based on their life satisfaction
reports: very high (top 10%), average (middle 25%), and very low (lowest 10%). Compared to students with average life satisfaction,
students with very high life satisfaction had higher levels on all indicators of adaptive psychosocial functioning, except
extraversion. Moreover, students with very high satisfaction had the lowest scores on all measures of emotional and behavioral
problems. However, rates of clinical levels of behavior problems did not differ significantly between the very high and average
groups. Finally, several necessary, but not sufficient factors for very high life satisfaction were identified. Taken together,
the findings support the notion that very high life satisfaction is associated with positive psychosocial functioning. Furthermore,
adolescents’ reports of their life satisfaction revealed differences in adjustment that were not captured by measures of psychopathology. 相似文献
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This study examined the psychometric properties of the Brief Multidmensional Student Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS: Seligson et al., 2003) with elementary school children. The participants included 518 elementary school students in grades three through five in a Southeastern US state. The students completed the following measures: the BMSLSS, the Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (SLSS: Huebner, 1991a), the Children’s Social Desirability Questionnaire (CSDQ: Crandall et al., 1965), and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule-Children’s Version (PANAS-C: Laurent et al., 1999). The results revealed acceptable internal consistency reliability, construct validity and concurrent validity for the BMSLSS. Overall, the use of the BMSLSS for research purposes was supported on a preliminary basis for this age group for research purposes. The study also investigated the usefulness of weighted importance ratings in the prediction of global life satisfaction judgments. Children’s ratings of the importance of the specific domains, whether viewed separately or combined with ratings of levels of life satisfaction, did not enhance the prediction of global life satisfaction. The usefulness of such a brief measure for the assessment of positive indicators of well-being in large-scale national and international studies is highlighted. Recommendations for future research are delineated. 相似文献
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The satisfaction with life scale (SWLS) is a widely accepted and widely used tool for measuring well-being. Although its potential
as a cross-cultural index is recognized, an introduction and systematic validation of the Hebrew version is needed. Thus,
the purpose of this study is: (1) to describe the process of developing the Hebrew version of the SWLS, and (2) to examine
its construct validity as well as its internal consistency. Four hundred and eighty seven working adults completed the following
self reported Hebrew language versions of the: (1) SWLS, (2) positive affect and negative affect scales (PANAS), and (3) the
self-rated health (SRH) scale. In addition, as way of gathering additional evidence of validity, the SWLS was completed by
proxy (i.e., each participant’s life partner or significant other). Confirmatory factor analysis supported a single-factor
structure with significant correlations between the SWLS and the rest of the measures—PANAS scores, the SRH scores as well
as the SWLS scores as measured by proxy. In addition, item-analysis supports the internal consistency of the scale. The Hebrew
version of the SWLS is a valid and reliable scale and can be utilized in the Israeli context. 相似文献
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The current study examined how well affect and daily events predict life satisfaction in 72 college students. Surveys assessing mood, affect balance, health, and sleep quality provided estimates of affect and daily events. The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) was used as a measure of general life satisfaction. The current results indicated that the SWLS was significantly correlated with feelings of depression, anger, vigor, and confusion, with physical health and frequency of physical illness, with positive and negative affect, and with sleep quality. The predictor variables used in the current study accounted for 54.1% of the total variance of the SWLS. However, only depression, vigor, confusion, frequency of illness and negative affect were significant predictors of life satisfaction in both a standard regression model and in a hierarchical forward regression model. More practically, an increase in subjective life satisfaction was predicted by decreases in depression, decreases in negative affect, decreases in the frequency of illness, and increases in vigor. These results indicate that judgements of life satisfaction, as measured by the SWLS, were significantly predicted by affect and daily events. 相似文献
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Preliminary Validation of the Brief Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS) 总被引:3,自引:1,他引:3
Two studies investigated the psychometricproperties of the Brief MultidimensionalStudents' Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS: Huebner, 1994). In Study 1, 221 middle schoolstudents completed the Brief MultidimensionalStudents' Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS),Multidimensional Students' Life SatisfactionScale, Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (SLSS:Huebner, 1991a), Positive and Negative AffectSchedule-Children's Version (Laurent et al.,1999), Children's Social Desirability Scale(Crandall et al., 1965), and a one-item globallife satisfaction rating (GLLS). Students alsorated the importance of the BMSLSS five lifesatisfaction domains (Family, Friends, School,Self, Living Environment). The results revealedacceptable internal consistency reliability,criterion-related validity, and constructvalidity for the BMSLSS Total score forresearch purposes. Furthermore, evidence ofconvergent and discriminant validity for theBMSLSS domain scores was also obtained throughmultitrait-multimethod analyses. Finally, theresults failed to provide strong support forthe usefulness of importance scores inpredicting overall life satisfaction;unweighted BMSLSS scores were highly related toglobal life satisfaction (GLLS) scores. InStudy 2, 46 high school students completed theBMSLSS and MSLSS to test the generalizabilityof the convergent and discriminant validityfindings with older adolescents. The findingsrevealed stronger evidence of validity withthis age group. Overall, the findings offered preliminary support for the reliability andvalidity of the BMSLSS, suggesting that it canserve as a useful alternative to the longerMSLSS in studies with adolescents in whichbrevity is an important consideration. 相似文献
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E. Scott Huebner 《Social indicators research》1995,34(3):315-323
This research examined selected psychometric properties of the Students' Life Satisfaction Scale for groups of black and white elementary school students. Participants included 120 black children and 496 white children from grades 3–6. The findings failed to demonstrate racial bias with respect to reliability, factorial validity, or criterion-related validity. 相似文献
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Patricia Sancho Laura Galiana Melchor Gutierrez Elizabeth-Hama Francisco José M. Tomás 《Social indicators research》2014,115(1):457-466
Life satisfaction is referred to a cognitive, judgmental process (Diener et al. in J Pers Assess 49:71–75, 1985), in which person’s quality of life is globally assessed according to his/her chosen criteria (Shin and Johnson in Soc Indic res 5:475–492, 1978). Thus, life satisfaction is a conscious cognitive judgment, based on the comparison of one’s life with a self-imposed standard or set of standards, which lead to a global assessment of life (Pavot and Diener in Psychol Assess 5:164–172, 1993). Among the many scales developed to measure life satisfaction, the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS, Diener et al. in J Pers Assess 49:71–75, 1985) is one of the global life satisfaction scales more often used in the research arena. It is composed of five items assessing global life satisfaction, using a Likert type response format. The aim of this paper is to validate the Portuguese version of the SWLS via confirmatory factor analysis, with a sample of 1,003 elderly from Angola. Reliability, factorial and criterial validity estimates are presented. Overall, the results shown that the scale had an adequate one-factor confirmatory solution, satisfying reliability indices, and adequate criterion-related validity when assessed in a sample of Angolan elderly. The discussion relates the results with existing literature and posits the contributions of the paper: firstly, it offers the researchers on life satisfaction in Portuguese-speaking contexts a brief, self-rated measure of satisfaction with life that has sound psychometric properties, validity, and reliability; secondly, it is the first confirmatory validation of the scale in Portuguese. 相似文献
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Alex C. Michalos Douglas Ramsey Derrek Eberts P. Maurine Kahlke 《Social indicators research》2012,107(2):201-234
The aim of this investigation was to obtain some baseline self-reported data on the health status and overall quality of life
of a sample of residents of the city of Brandon, Manitoba aged 18 years or older, and to measure the impact of a set of designated
health determinants, comparison standards and satisfaction with diverse domains of life on their health and quality of life.
In May and June 2010, 2,500 households from the city of Brandon, Manitoba were randomly selected to receive a mailed out questionnaire
and 518 useable, completed questionnaires were returned. Baseline health status data were obtained using the 8 SF-36 dimensions
of health and 13 items from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
System. Determinants of health and overall quality of life included measures of socializing activities, a Good Neighbourhood
Index, Social Support Index, Community Health Index, a measure of free-time exercise levels, health-related behaviours, use
of drugs, health care issues, a set of domain-specific quality of life items, a set of measures concerning criminal victimization,
worries and behaviours concerning victimization and the basic postulates of Multiple Discrepancies Theory. Overall life assessment,
dependent variables included Average Health, happiness, a single item measure of satisfaction with life as a whole, a single
item measure of satisfaction with the overall quality of life, the Satisfaction With Life Scale, Contentment with Life Assessment
Scale and a Subjective Wellbeing Index. Using multiple regression, we explained as much as 75% of the variance in Subjective
Wellbeing scores and as little as 45% in happiness scores. Four clusters of health determinants explained from 20% (Happiness)
to 44% (Average Health) of the variance in the dependent variables. Adding comparison standards and domain satisfaction scores
to the set of health determinants increased our total explanatory power by only 2% points for Average Health (from 44 to 46%),
but more than doubled our explanatory power for Happiness (from 20 to 45%) and for satisfaction with the overall quality of
life (from 31 to 67%). As well, our explanatory power for the single item of Life Satisfaction increased from 34 to 66%, for
the Satisfaction With Life Scale from 39 to 74%, for the Contentment With Life Assessment Scale from 36 to 60%, and for Subjective
Wellbeing from 42 to 75%. This provided very clear evidence that self-perceived good health is not equivalent to perceived
quality of life, confirming evidence reported in our earlier studies. The three most important take-home messages from this
investigation are (1) in assessing the relative influence of any alleged determinants of health and the quality of life, different
sets of alleged determinants will appear to be more or less influential for different dependent variables. Therefore, (2)
researchers should use diverse sets of determinants and dependent variables and (3) it is a big mistake to use measures of
health status as if they were measures of the perceived quality of life. 相似文献
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This study examined the association among personality traits, life events and life satisfaction, and the underlying pathways
from personality traits to life satisfaction. A total of 1,961 adolescents were recruited from 21 secondary schools in Hong
Kong. The adolescent version of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI-A), the Chinese Adolescent Life Events
Checklist (CALEC) and the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) were employed to assess their personality, life events and life
satisfaction, respectively. Multiple regression analysis showed there was an additional value of the indigenously derived
scales of CPAI-A, including the Family Orientation, Harmony and Ren-Qing scales, in predicting life satisfaction beyond the
universal personality traits. Results also indicated that there was a partial mediation effect of negative life events on
personality traits in the prediction of life satisfaction. 相似文献
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Facebook’s Gross National Happiness (FGNH) indexes the positive and negative words used in the millions of status updates submitted daily by Facebook users. FGNH has face validity: it shows a weekly cycle and increases on national holidays. Also, happier individuals use more positive words and fewer negative words in their status updates (Kramer 2010). We examined the validity of FGNH in measuring mood and well-being by comparing it with scores on Diener’s Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), administered to an average of 34 Facebook users every day for a year, then aggregated by day, week, month, quarter and half year. FGNH and SWLS were not significantly correlated, with a negative correlation coefficient. Also, aggregated SWLS scores showed a positive relationship with numbers of negative words in status updates. We conclude that FGNH is a valid measure for neither mood nor well-being; however, it may play a role in mood regulation. This challenges the assumption that linguistic analysis of internet messages is related to underlying psychological states. 相似文献
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This study evaluated the factorial and convergent validity of theTemporal Satisfaction With Life Scale (TSWLS; Pavot, Diener andSuh, 1998), which was designed to measure past, present, andfuture life satisfaction. A sample of psychology undergraduates(N = 223) was administered a questionnaire containing the TSWLSand a global measure of past, present, and future subjectivewell-being (SWB), the Self-Anchoring Striving Scale (SASS;Kilpatrick and Cantril, 1960). Results of covariance structureanalyses supported a 3-factor model (past, present, and futurelife satisfaction as distinct, yet correlated, factors) for theTSWLS, demonstrated that item responding was only slightlycontaminated by an acquiescence bias, and showed that each of thepast, present, and future dimensions of the TSWLS was moststrongly related to its corresponding global SWB rating on theSASS. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. 相似文献
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Recent studies investigating need theory and the extent to which money can buy happiness have called for more research within
culturally homogeneous samples from developing countries to explore this relationship. We examine wealth as a measure of possessions
and savings and relate this to subjective well-being (SWB) among poor indigenous farmers in Peninsular Malaysia. With hierarchical
multiple regression, we find that the association between wealth and life satisfaction, after controlling for demographic
variables, is positive and significant, β = 0.24, p<0.001. This effect is similar to effect sizes reported for other poor samples around the globe and is larger than what has
been normally found in Western samples. Our analysis of the Malay translation of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) reveals
rather low internal reliability and prompts us to explore the potential wealth-SWB relationship in the absence of measurement
error. We find a larger effect size when measurement error is removed, r = 0.43. We discuss the use of latent variable analysis to better interpret wealth-SWB effect sizes and recommend its use
for future studies that use SWLS translations. Finally, we find that age, education, family size, and recent illness, while
weak zero-order correlates of SWB, become significant predictors of life satisfaction when included with wealth in the multiple
regression model. Some explanations and implications of these findings are conjectured. Our study contributes a unique sample
to the expanding literature in support of need theory, and may be one of the first to examine the relationship between wealth
and life satisfaction among a country’s aboriginal people. 相似文献