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Assessing Well-BeingReview of the Satisfaction With Life Scale

Assessing Well-Being: Review of the Satisfaction With Life Scale [The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) was developed to assess satis-faction with the respondent’s life as a whole. 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. Normative data are presented for the scale, which shows good convergent validity with other scales and with other types of assessments of subjective well-being. Life satisfaction as assessed by the SWLS shows a degree of temporal stability (e.g., 0.54 for 4 years), yet the SWLS has shown sufficient sensitivity to be potentially valuable to detect change in life satis-faction during the course of clinical intervention. Further, the scale shows discrim-inant validity from emotional well-being measures. The SWLS is recommended as a complement to scales that focus on psychopathology or emotional well-being because it assesses an individuals’ conscious evaluative judgment of his or her life by using the person’s own criteria.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Assessing Well-BeingReview of the Satisfaction With Life Scale

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 39)
Editors: Diener, Ed
Pavot, William; Diener, Ed
Assessing Well-Being — Jan 1, 2009
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Netherlands 2009
ISBN
978-90-481-2353-7
Pages
101 –117
DOI
10.1007/978-90-481-2354-4_5
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Abstract

[The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) was developed to assess satis-faction with the respondent’s life as a whole. 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. Normative data are presented for the scale, which shows good convergent validity with other scales and with other types of assessments of subjective well-being. Life satisfaction as assessed by the SWLS shows a degree of temporal stability (e.g., 0.54 for 4 years), yet the SWLS has shown sufficient sensitivity to be potentially valuable to detect change in life satis-faction during the course of clinical intervention. Further, the scale shows discrim-inant validity from emotional well-being measures. The SWLS is recommended as a complement to scales that focus on psychopathology or emotional well-being because it assesses an individuals’ conscious evaluative judgment of his or her life by using the person’s own criteria.]

Published: Jan 1, 2009

Keywords: Life Satisfaction; Social Desirability; Life Scale; Satisfaction With Life Scale; Global Life Satisfaction

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