Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS)
Cite this measure View Measure| General information | |
| Purpose | The SWLS is a short 5-item instrument designed to measure global cognitive judgments of satisfaction with one’s life. |
| Domain(s) | Life Satisfaction |
| Target population | Adult |
| Number of items | 5 |
| Administration format | self-report |
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| Availability in other languages | Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Flemish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Setswana, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese |
| Fee for use | |
| Free | |
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In order to better understand the scores of the SWLS, please read the document here. |
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| Non-exhaustive list of psychometric studies | |
Amtmann, D., Bocell, F. D., Bamer, A., Heinemann, A. W., Hoffman, J. M., Juengst, S. B., . . . McMullen, K. (2019). Psychometric properties of the satisfaction with life scale in people with traumatic brain, spinal cord, or burn injury: A national institute on disability, independent living, and rehabilitation research model system study. Assessment, 26(4), 695-705. doi:10.1177/1073191117693921 Bagherzadeh, M., Loewe, N., Mouawad, R. G., Batista-Foguet, J. M., Araya-Castillo, L., & Thieme, C. (2018). Spanish version of the satisfaction with life scale: Validation and factorial invariance analysis in Chile. Spanish Journal of Psychology, 21 doi:10.1017/sjp.2018.2 Dirzyte, A., Perminas, A., & Biliuniene, E. (2021). Psychometric properties of satisfaction with life scale (SWLS) and psychological capital questionnaire (pcq-24) in the Lithuanian population. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(5), 1-27. doi:10.3390/ijerph18052608 López-Ortega, M., Torres-Castro, S., & Rosas-Carrasco, O. (2016). Psychometric properties of the satisfaction with life scale (SWLS): Secondary analysis of the Mexican health and aging study. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 14(1) doi:10.1186/s12955-016-0573-9 Lorenzo-Seva, U., Calderon, C., Ferrando, P. J., del Mar Muñoz, M., Beato, C., Ghanem, I., . . . Jiménez-Fonseca, P. (2019). Psychometric properties and factorial analysis of invariance of the satisfaction with life scale (SWLS) in cancer patients. Quality of Life Research, 28(5), 1255-1264. doi:10.1007/s11136-019-02106-y Post, M. W., Van Leeuwen, C. M., Van Koppenhagen, C. F., & De Groot, S. (2012). Validity of the life satisfaction questions, the life satisfaction questionnaire, and the satisfaction with life scale in persons with spinal cord injury. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 93(10), 1832-1837. doi:10.1016/j.apmr.2012.03.025 Yun, Y. H., Rhee, Y. E., Kang, E., & Sim, J. -. (2019). The satisfaction with life scale and the subjective well-being inventory in the general Korean population: Psychometric properties and normative data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(9) doi:10.3390/ijerph16091538 |
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| Additional information | |
Information about the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) can be found here. |