Satisfaction with life scale the swls is a short, 5item instrument designed to measure global cognitive judgments of ones lives. Life satisfaction judgments represent the cognitive component of subjective wellbeing, or the experience commonly referred to as happiness diener, 1984, 2000. It does not attempt to measure constructs such as positive affect or loneliness which measure specific domains. Reliability of the academic life satisfaction scale was established through the splithalf method and by using spearmanprophecy brown formula and the reliability coefficient is found to be 0. On the swls website, the scale is defined as follows. The satisfaction with life scale or swls diener et al. Psychometric properties of the satisfaction with life scale.
The author recommends that the 9item tswls be used to measure temporal life satisfaction. Using the 17 scale below, indicate your agreement with each item by placing the appropriate number on the line preceding that item. Larsen and sharon griffin as noted in the 1985 article in the. 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. It is a narrowly focused measurement tool designed to assess global life satisfaction. The scale does not assess satisfaction with life domains such as health or. Two hundred ninetyeight undergraduates went to the informed consent page of the online survey composed of the appreciation scale, the satisfaction with life scale swls, the positive and negative affect scale panas, the rosenberg selfesteem scale rse, and part of the ways of coping questionnaire. The satisfaction with life scale swl measurement instrument. Review of the satisfaction with life scale by william pavot. Satisfaction with life scale was developed by diener, emmons, larsen and griffin in 1985.
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. No values were reported for the responsiveness of the lisat9 for the sci population. It is designed to ask subjects for an overall judgment of their life, in order to measure the concept of life satisfaction. Life satisfaction is one factor in the more general construct of subjective wellbeing. Validation of arabic state selfesteem and satisfaction. Life satisfaction refers to a cognitive judgement process. This is of course also a core assumption underlying romantic drama and comedy.
For the second section, it was used dieners satisfaction with life scale likert scale 5 items. Dirisa sekale sa 1 7 go kaya mokgwa o o dumelanang le polelo nngwe le nngwe ka ona mme o. General life satisfaction of university students are. Below are five statements with which you may agree or disagree.
The satisfaction with life scale swls has been used heavily as a measure of the life satisfaction component of subjective wellbeing. Poster presentation the adaptation of satisfaction with life scale in the greek language a patsiaouras 0 1 ch mouzakidis 0 1 a pappas 0 1 m xaritonidi 0 1 0 from international society on brain and behaviour. In spite of the significance of life satisfaction ls for adolescent health and wellbeing, the past decades have yielded limited progress in investigating the psychometric properties of a wellused inventory measuring ls, the satisfaction with life scale swls in adolescents. Satisfaction with life scale how is satisfaction with life. Skala satysfakcji z zycia polska wersja satisfaction with life scale swls. In this article, conceptualization of wellbeing is a starting point. Satisfaction with life scale swls, an overview springerlink. Life satisfaction and positive and negative feelings of. The satisfaction with life scale swls is a fiveitem selfreport instrument intended to assess the.
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. This is the strategy adopted by the authors of the satisfaction with life scale swls. Pdf the satisfaction with life scale swls was developed in the us as a multiitem scale for the. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. In order to better understand the scores of the swls. The testretest reliability for each scale and the survey as a whole is. The satisfaction with life scale swls is a measure of life satisfaction developed by ed diener and colleagues diener et al, 1985. A questionnaire was applied to a nonprobabilistic sample of 370 students of both genders mean age 21 years in chile, including satisfaction with life scale, swfol scale, swfal scale, and the family resources scale. You can download a full copy of the swls, including how to tally and score. The adaptation of satisfaction with life scale in the. Satisfaction with life scale positive psychology center. The scale usually requires only about one minute of a respondents time. Description the primary purpose of this research was to examine whether appreciation explains variance in life satisfaction after controlling for gender, positive affectivity, selfesteem, and coping skills.
As such, the psychometric properties of the satisfaction with life scale swls. The swls was designed around the idea that one must ask s s for an overall judgement of their life in order to have an adequate index of the concept of life satisfaction. Psychometric properties of the satisfaction with life. According to diener, subjective wellbeing refers to all kinds of evaluation, both positive and negative, people make about their own lives. Satisfaction with life scale swls university of illinois.
Results of a factor analysis and the resulting scales on the lss are described. 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. Using the 1 7 scale below, indicate your agreement with each item by placing the appropriate number on the line after that item. Imagepdf sample pdf, tiff to pdf, jpeg to pdf created date. Though scoring should be kept continuous sum up scores on each item. Scores on the swls correlate moderately to highly with other measures of subjective wellbeing, and correlate predictably with specific personality characteristics. Pdf skala satysfakcji z zycia polska wersja satisfaction. Although not gender differences were found, it has been established a set of differences according to career. Satisfaction with life scale swls psychology department labs. The swls is a short 5item instrument designed to measure global cognitive judgments of satisfaction with ones life. The life satisfaction survey was designed to enhance the range of options for coaches in these areas. The satisfaction with life scale swls was originally developed by diener, emmons, larsen, and griffin 1985, and was intended as a brief assessment of an individuals general sense of satisfaction with their life as a whole. The satisfaction with life scale was developed to assess satisfaction with peoples lives as a whole.
No values were reported for the presence of floorceiling effects in the lisat9 for the sci population. Also, it constitutes one of the most relevant variables within the positive and social psychology to study outcomes in different spheres of the life. Using the 1 7 scale, indicate your agreement with each item. It is used to measure the level of satisfaction of the individual with life. In order to better understand the scores of the swls, please read the document below. The present study attempted to extend the applicability of the swls by investigating specific aspects of reliability and validity in a. Brief multidimensional students life satisfaction scale. The process of item construction and scale development is presented. The satisfaction with life scale swls was developed in the united states as a multiitem scale for the overall assessment of life satisfaction as cognitivejudgmental process, rather as a measurement of specific satisfaction areas e. The adaptation of satisfaction with life scale in the greek. It includes cognitive assessments, such as satisfaction with life and satisfaction with work, as well as affective reactions to life events, such as sadness and contentment. The results of this application show a relatively high satisfaction with life among colombian university students. In the original study, 230 portugese undergraduate students with. 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.
The crossnational measurement invariance of the satisfaction. The scale is not ed, and can be used without charge and without permission by all professionals researchers and practitioners. The swls has been extensively used as a subjective measure of the quality of life. Validation of arabic state selfesteem and satisfaction with. 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. Pdf this article reports the development and validation of a scale to measure global life satisfaction, the satisfaction with life scale swls. Correlation of the lisat9 is high for the satisfaction with life scale spearmans r0. Austria, bosnia and herzegovina, croatia, montenegro, and serbia.
Satisfaction with life scale swls the swls is a short 5item instrument designed to measure global cognitive judgments of satisfaction with ones life. Satisfaction with life scale is one of the most used questionnaires to asses this. The satisfaction with life scale swls was developed to assess satisfaction with the respondents life as a whole. The scale is not ed, and can be used without charge and without permission by. Pdf the satisfaction with life scale swls was developed to assess satisfaction with the respondents life as a whole. Students responded to five items on a 7pont likert scale ranging from strongly agree 7 to. Satisfaction with life scale swls in caregivers of. Below are five statements that you may agree or disagree with. 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. Life satisfaction as assessed by the swls shows a degree of temporal.
Using structural equation modeling, we found that students life satisfaction was related to swfal and foodrelated life. 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. Regarding the scholar context, it has been documented through several research experiences that the psychological wellbeing and. The satisfaction with life scale swls is a fiveitem selfreport instrument intended to assess the respondents overall life satisfaction sometimes referred to as global satisfaction. 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. Swls measures overall satisfaction with a persons life. It is a fiveitem scale that uses a 7point likerttype response format 1. Therefore, a secondary purpose of this paper is to evaluate the psychometric properties of the swls in a sample of caregivers for clinically. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. 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. The objective was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the satisfaction with. The scale is in the public domain not ed and therefore you are free to use it without permission or charge by.
The scale is in the public domain not ed and therefore you are free to use it without permission or charge. One important point is that the satisfaction with ones love life is related to overall well being. Frontiers life satisfaction of university students in. The scale takes about one minute to complete, and is in. Review of the satisfaction with life scale psychology department. University of thessalytefaa, 42100 karyes, trikala, greece. Two hundred ninetyeight undergraduates went to the informed consent page of the online survey composed of the appreciation scale, the satisfaction with life scale swls, the positive. The swls items are global rather than specific in nature. Larsen and sharon griffin as noted in the 1985 article in the journal of personality assessment.
Life satisfaction questionnaire lisat9, lisat11 spinal. Scores on the swls have been shown to correlate with measures of mental health, and be. The scale usually requires only about one minute of respondent time. If you would like to access the swls in english, please select it from the list of translations above.
Review of the satisfaction with life scale by william. Evidence for the crossmethod convergence of wellbeing measures. Further validation of the satisfaction with life scale. The predictive power of academic life satisfaction scale is assess. Appreciation and life satisfaction rutgers university. Satisfaction with life scale how is satisfaction with. The list of acronyms and abbreviations related to sls satisfaction with life scale. Jul 01, 2018 the purpose of this study was threefold.
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