The Satisfaction With Life Scale (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985) has been the dominant measure of life satisfaction since its creation over 30 years ago. We sought to develop an improved measure that includes indirect indicators of life satisfaction (e.g., wishing to change one’s life) to increase the bandwidth of the measure and account for acquiescence bias. In three studies, we dev...

The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) was developed to assess satisfaction 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 ot...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the relationships between self-esteem, marital relationship and components of happiness (consists of positive affect, negative affect and life-satisfaction), in married women. the 97 women were tested using the rosenberg self-esteem questionnaire (barrow, 2007), marital relationship questionnaire (khayyer and samani, 2003), positive and negative a...

a r t i c l e i n f o The present research has aimed to extend the previous research on the structure of subjective well-being (SWB) by applying the bifactor model. The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) were administered to two large samples of Serbian young adults (N 1 = 1669, N 2 = 1522). The bifactor model of SWB with one general and th...

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This article reports the development and validation of a scale to measure global life satisfaction, the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS). Among the various components of subjective well-being, the SWLS is narrowly focused to assess global life satisfaction and does not tap related constructs such as positive affect or loneliness. The SWLS is shown to have favorable psychometric properties, i...

the aim of this study is investigate the relationship between resilience, hardiness and life satisfaction with body image of high school girls of sabzevar in 2014. this study was correlational. the population of this study included 1578 in high school girls of sabzevar and 311 persons were selected through multistep cluster sampling method. the data was collected using conner-davidson resilienc...

objective: the determinants of satisfaction of life (swl) are poorly described among iranian employed ‎nurses. this study aimed to assess the effect of various factors including age, gender, marital ‎status, depression, anxiety and stress on swl among iranian nurses.‎ method: employed nurses in three teaching hospitals were invited to participate in this study. ninety-four ‎nurses (65 women and...