Investigating Validity Evidence of the Satisfaction with Life Scale Adapted for Children

• Published in: Social indicators research Vol. 96; no. 2; pp. 229 - 247
• Main Authors: Gadermann, Anne M, Schonert-Reichl, Kimberly A, Zumbo, Bruno D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands 01.04.2010; Springer; Springer Netherlands; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescence; Adolescents; Age; Age groups; Behavior; Child development; Child. Socialization; Children; Children & youth; Construct Validity; Correlations; Depression (Psychology); Discriminant Validity; Discriminants; Drug use; Effect Size; Empathy; Empowerment; Factor Structure; History, theory and methodology; Human Geography; Internal Consistency; Life Satisfaction; Longitudinal Studies; Measures (Individuals); Methodology; Microeconomics; Optimism; Perspective Taking; Principal components analysis; Psychometrics; Public Health; Quality of life; Quality of Life Research; Quantitative psychology; Scores; Self Concept; Self Efficacy; Social Sciences; Sociodemographic Factors; Sociology; Sociology of the family. Age groups; Students; Studies; Teenagers; Validation studies; Validity; Well-being; Wellbeing; United States > US; Subjective well-being; Satisfaction with life; Children; Satisfaction with Life Scale adapted for Children; Adolescents; Measurement; Quality of Life; Psychometrics; Child; Satisfaction

This study introduces the Satisfaction with Life Scale adapted for Children (SWLS-C) and presents psychometric findings regarding its validation. The SWLS-C was adapted from the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS; Diener et al. 1985), which is one of the most commonly used measures to assess satisfa...