About the Measure
| Domains | Mental health and wellbeing |
| Key stages | Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5 |
| Subscales | This is a unidimensional measure |
| Description | A very brief, global measure of life satisfaction adapted from the adult SWLS. |
| Example | In most ways my life is close to the way I would want it to be |
| Link | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-009-9474-1#citeas |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| No. of items | 5 |
| Format | Likert |
| Respondent | Self |
| Scoring | Standardised |
| Time | 0 |
| Age | 9-18 |
| Cost single purchase | Free - Available |
| Cost per child | Free - Available |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | No |
| Cronbach's α | .86 |
| Test retest | Not reported |
| Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
| EFA | Single-factor so |
| CFA | Non-parametric IRT modelling |
| Criterion validity | Not reported |
| Construct validity | Optimism (optimism subscale of the short form of the Resilience Inventory) r= .65; Self-concept (self-concept subscale of the Marsh Self Description Questionnaire for preadolescents), r= .57; Self-efficacy (subscale of the short form of the Resilience Inventory), r= -.46 |
| Concurrent validity | Not reported |
| Predictive validity | Not reported |
| Responsiveness | Not reported |
| Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
| References | Gadermann, A. M., Schonert-Reichl, K. A., & Zumbo, B. D. (2010). Investigating validity evidence of the satisfaction with life scale adapted for children. Social Indicators Research, 96(2), 229-247. doi:10.1007/s11205-009-9474-1 |