Testing for Measurement Invariance in the Satisfaction with Life Scale: A Comparison of Russians and North Americans

By K. L. Tucker, D. Ozer, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Julia K. Boehm. 2006

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Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Psychometric Properties of the Satisfaction with Life Scale among Turkish University Students, Correctional Officers, and Elderly Adults (2010, methodology): “1991) and confirmatory factor analysis (Blais et al. 1989; Tucker et al. 2006) of the SWLS, conducted in different cultures.”
• The Satisfaction With Life Scale and the emerging construct of life satisfaction (2008, background): “Tucker, Ozer, Lyubomirsky, and Boehm ( 2006 ) also found some evidence for the lack of comparability between Russian and North American groups in terms of their self-reports of life satisfaction; their findings point to the importance of testing for measurement invariance in the SWLS.”
• Validation of the Satisfaction with Life Scale to Brazilians: Evidences of Measurement Noninvariance Across Brazil and US (2013, result): “The nonequivalence between of US and Brazil samples that we found has also been found in validation studies between other countries (Tucker et al. 2006).”
• Life Satisfaction and Happiness in Turkey (2008, background): “Tucker et al. (2006) examine the comparability of Satisfaction with Life Scale scores across US and Russian student and community groups.”
• Cross-National Adolescent Multidimensional Life Satisfaction Reports: Analyses of Mean Scores and Response Style Differences (2008, background): “There is a growing recognition that cultural factors may influence the level and degree to which individuals rate their general satisfaction or satisfaction within specific life domains (e.g., Diener et al., 2003; Tucker et al., 2006).”
• The Psychometric Evaluation of the Satisfaction with Life Scale Using a Nationally Representative Sample of China (2011, background): “2000), culture (Tucker et al. 2006) and time (Wu et al.”