The Satisfaction With Life Scale and the emerging construct of life satisfaction

By W. Pavot, E. Diener. 2008

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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Paths to success in young adulthood from mental health and life transitions in emerging adulthood (2010, background): “Life satisfaction is a global, cognitive evaluation of one’s quality of life, an important component of subjective well-being, and a marker of self-perceived success (Pavot & Diener, 2008).”
Changes in emotions and their interactions with personality in a vacation context (2014, methodology): “The PREVAC questionnaire also included the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS; Pavot & Diener, 2008), the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI; Gosling, Rentfrow, & Swann, 2003) and questions about respondents’ demographic characteristics.”
The importance of very high life satisfaction for students’ academic success (2017, background): “…that individuals with high life satisfaction tend to have more positive social relationships, receive more social support, and experience greater marital satisfaction compared to those with lower life satisfaction (Barger, Donoho, & Wayment, 2009; Diener & Seligman, 2002; Pavot & Diener, 2008).”
New Measures of Well-Being (2009, background): “Several thorough reviews of the scale exist (Pavot & Diener, 1993; Pavot & Diener, 2008 ).”
Effectiveness of career counseling: A one-year follow-up (2012, methodology): “This instrument has good sensitivity and was used to detect changes in life satisfaction during and after interventions (Pavot & Diener, 2008).”
The Mediating Role of Self‐compassion in Student Psychological Health (2016, background): “The SWLS possesses convergent validity against other well-being measures (Pavot & Diener, 2008).”
The role of perceived autonomy support in predicting university students’ academic success mediated by academic self-efficacy and school engagement (2019, methodology): “The Satisfaction with Life Scale by Pavot & Diener (2008), considered one of the most important indicators of subjective well-being, was used to measure the satisfaction of people with life in general (e.g. ‘I’m satisfied with my life’).”
The Association Between School Stress, Life Satisfaction and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents: Life Satisfaction as a Potential Mediator (2016, methodology): “The life satisfaction construct (LS) represents the cognitive component of subjective well-being (Pavot and Diener 2008; Proctor et al. 2009a).”
Psychometric Properties of the Satisfaction with Life Scale among Turkish University Students, Correctional Officers, and Elderly Adults (2010, background): “The convergent validity scores indicated that the SWLS was related with depression, negative affect, positive affect, self-esteem, anxiety and psychological distress (Pavot and Diener 2008).”
Do burnout and work engagement predict depressive symptoms and life satisfaction? A three-wave seven-year prospective study. (2012, background): “In contrast, for work-related well-being other issues in life (e.g. life events, marital relationships) that influence general well-being (e.g. Pavot and Diener, 2008; Ryan and Deci, 2001) may not be so important as those that are work-related.”
New Well-being Measures: Short Scales to Assess Flourishing and Positive and Negative Feelings (2010, methodology): “Coming from a different tradition, Putnam (2000) and Helliwell et al. (2009) suggest that ‘‘social capital’’ is basic to the well-being of societies.”
The relation between emotional intelligence and subjective well-being: A meta-analytic investigation (2016, background): “The cognitive component of well-being (CWB) refers to the result of the evaluation of information processing that people make about their lives, both about the past and present (Pavot & Diener, 2008).”
Self-Actualizing People in the 21st Century: Integration With Contemporary Theory and Research on Personality and Well-Being (2018, background): “One of the most prominent frameworks in the study of well-being is an investigation of life satisfaction (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985; Pavot & Diener, 2008).”