Review of the Satisfaction with Life Scale
E. Diener (ed.), Assessing Well-Being: The Collected Works of Ed Diener, Social Indicators Research Series 39, DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-2354-4 5, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
17 Pages Posted: 11 Jan 2013
Date Written: January 10, 2013
Abstract
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 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 satisfaction during the course of clinical intervention. Further, the scale shows discriminant 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.
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