About the Measure
| Domains | Mental health and wellbeing |
| Key stages | Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5 |
| Subscales | Family; Friends; School; Self; Living Environment |
| Description | A questionnaire designed to provide a profile of children’s satisfaction with important, specific domains in their lives and to assess children's general overall life satisfaction. |
| Example | My friend's treat me well |
| Link | https://ww2.cas.sc.edu/psyc/sites/default/files/directory_files/huebslssmanual_0.pdf |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| No. of items | 40 |
| Format | Likert |
| Respondent | Self |
| Scoring | Standardised |
| Time | 0 |
| Age | 8-18 |
| Cost single purchase | Free |
| Cost per child | Free |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | No |
| Cronbach's α | .70-.90 |
| Test retest | Over 2 and 4 weeks, r= [.70,.90] |
| Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
| EFA | Not reported |
| CFA | 5-factor model Chi-square(730)= 1616.40 GFI=.78 AGFI=.76 RMSR=.08 |
| Criterion validity | Not reported |
| Construct validity | Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (MLSS) school domain correlated with Quality of School Life Questionnaire, r= .68; MLSS friends domain correlated with Loneliness and Social Dissatisfaction Scale, r= .56; MLSS family domain correlated with the Behavioral Assessment Scale for Children, r= .61 |
| Concurrent validity | Not reported |
| Predictive validity | Predicts internalising symptoms after 1 year, r= .30 and 2 years, r= .23; Predicts externalising symptoms after 1 year, r= .32 and 2 years, r= .30 |
| Responsiveness | Not reported |
| Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
| References | Haranin, E. C., Huebner, E. S., & Suldo, S. M. (2007). Predictive and incremental validity of global and domain-based adolescent life satisfaction reports. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 25(2), 127–138. doi:10.1177/0734282906295620 Huebner, E. S. (2001). Manual for the Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale. Retrieved from https://ww2.cas.sc.edu/psyc/sites/default/files/directory_files/huebslssmanual_0.pdf Huebner, E. S., & Gilman, R. (2002). An introduction to the Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale. Social Indicators Research, 60, 115-122. doi:10.1007/978-94-015-9970-2_5 Greenspoon, P. J., & Saklofske, D. H. (1998). Confirmatory factor analysis of the Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 25(5), 965–971. doi:10.1016/s0191-8869(98)00115-9 |