About the Measure
| Domains | Mental health and wellbeing |
| Key stages | Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5 |
| Subscales | This is a unidimensional measure |
| Description | A very brief, global measure of life satisfaction developed for use with adults but which has been used with adolescents. |
| Example | In most ways my life is close to my ideal |
| Link | https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a113/c59c6ce6f8a3cc6fbcd4968f54cde74ad25f.pdf |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| No. of items | 5 |
| Format | Likert |
| Respondent | Self |
| Scoring | Standardised |
| Time | 0 |
| Age | 14-17 |
| Cost single purchase | Free |
| Cost per child | Free |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | No |
| Cronbach's α | .78 |
| Test retest | Not reported |
| Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
| EFA | Single-factor so |
| CFA | Not reported |
| Criterion validity | Not reported |
| Construct validity | Loneliness ( Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale ), r= -.49; Psychological maturity, r= .40; Social acceptance, r= .38; Physical attractiveness r=.32/ Happiness r= .69 (questions selected for study) |
| Concurrent validity | Not reported |
| Predictive validity | Not reported |
| Responsiveness | Not reported |
| Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
| References | Neto, F. (1993). The satisfaction with life scale: Psychometrics properties in an adolescent sample. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 22(2), 125-134. doi:10.1007/bf01536648 |