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 |