The Divergent Meanings of Life Satisfaction: Item Response Modeling of the Satisfaction with Life Scale in Greenland and Norway

By Joar Vittersø, R. Biswas-Diener, E. Diener. 2005

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Social Psychology

1. Louis Tay
2. E. Diener
3. W. Pavot
4. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
5. R. Inglehart
6. Viren Swami
7. A. Delle Fave
8. Habib Tiliouine

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Louis Tay
2. E. Diener
3. Abbes Belgoumidi
4. Chia-huei Wu
5. R. Inglehart
6. Viren Swami
7. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
8. H. E. Nafstad

Citations in the corpus

• An Exploratory Study of Religiosity, Meaning in Life and Subjective Wellbeing in Muslim Students from Algeria (2009, background): “It is a 5-item measure of the cognitive component of SWB and has become a popular measure of life satisfaction (Vitterso et al. 2005).”
• The Psychometric Evaluation of the Satisfaction with Life Scale Using a Nationally Representative Sample of China (2011, methodology): “Moreover, drawing on item response theory, Vitterso et al. (2005) conducted a cross-cultural comparison in item responses to the SWLS across samples from Greenland and Norway using the Mixed Rasch Model.”
• Psychometric Evaluation of the Malay Satisfaction With Life Scale (2009, background): “…et al. 1989), China (Ye 2007), the Czech Republic (Lewis et al. 1999), Hong Kong (Sachs 2004), the Netherlands (Arrindell et al. 1999), Norway (Vittersø et al. 2005), Portugal (Neto 1993), Russia (Balatsky and Diener 1993), Spain (Atienza et al. 2003), Sweden (Hultell and Gustavsson 2008),…”
• The Satisfaction With Life Scale and the emerging construct of life satisfaction (2008, result): “As an example, Vitterso, Biswas-Diener, and Diener ( 2005 ) compared SWLS scores obtained from a sample of Norwegians with the SWLS scores from a sample of individuals in Greenland.”
• Life Satisfaction in Brazil: Testing the Psychometric Properties of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) in Five Brazilian Samples (2008, unknown): “The SWLS has been translated into Arabic (Abdallah 1998), Chinese (Sachs 2004), Czech (Lewis et al. 1999), Dutch (Arrindell et al. 1999), French (Blais et al. 1990; Fouquereau and Rioux 2002), Norwegian ( Vitterso et al. 2005 ), Portuguese (Neto 1993b), Russian (Balatsky and Diener 1993), and Spanis”
• Psychometric Evaluation of the Hebrew Language Version of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (2010, unknown): “…et al. 2009), Malaysia (Swami and Chamorro-Premuzic 2009), Lebanon (Ayyash-Abdo and Alamuddin 2007), Netherlands (Arrindell et al. 1991), Norway (Vitterso et al. 2005), Hong Kong (Sachs 2003), Spain (Atienza et al. 2000), Sweden (Hultell and Gustavsson 2008), Portugal (Neto 1993), the Czech…”
• Everyday Understandings of Happiness, Good Life, and Satisfaction: Three Different Facets of Well-being (2017, methodology): “Concerning life satisfaction, a study conducted in Norway and Greenland explored how participants understood the conceptual meaning of the five items composing the Satisfaction With Life Scale (Vittersø et al. 2005).”
• Theory and Validity of Life Satisfaction Scales (2013, background): “For instance, Vitterso et al. (2005) found that Greenlanders and Norwegians were about equally satisfied with their lives, although the former were much poorer.”