VALIDATION OF THE SATISFACTION WITH LIFE SCALE IN A SAMPLE OF HONG KONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

By J. Sachs. 2003

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Exploratory and confirmatory analyses were used to examine the Satisfaction With Life Scale in a sample of Hong Kong university students. The exploratory analyses showed that the Satisfaction With Life Scale had good internal consistency reliability and that it appeared to measure a unidimensional construct. Comparison of Hong Kong students’ scores on the Satisfaction With Life Scale with the normative data for American students and mainland Chinese and Korean students showed that Hong Kong students were more similar, on average, to the American students than to the Asian students in their overall satisfaction with life. Further analysis of the scale’s structure using confirmatory factor analysis found that a modified two-factor model defined by present and past life satisfaction items and which allowed the error variances for two items to correlate fit the data best. However, inspection of the fit indices for the modified two-factor model suggested that it over fit the data, while a modified one-factor model, with correlated errors, also showed acceptable fit. Since the modified one-factor model was more parsimonious and agreed with the theoretical development of the scale as a unidimensional measure of general overall life satisfaction, it was retained. It is suggested that because of the Satisfaction With Life Scale’s good reliability and cross-cultural validity along with its brevity and broad-band nature in assessing overall satisfaction with life it could have wide applicability as an ancillary measure in a number of research areas.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Analysis of factorial invariance across gender in the Taiwan version of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (2006, methodology): “However, inconsistent with McDonald’s (1999) result, Sachs (2003) proposed a revised one-factor model after comparing several models.”
• 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): “…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 Republic (Lewis et al. 1999) and…”
• The Psychometric Evaluation of the Satisfaction with Life Scale Using a Nationally Representative Sample of China (2011, methodology): “First, regarding factorial validity, we sought to determine if there is only one factor underlying the five items in a Chinese sample, as has been demonstrated in previous studies (e.g., Pavot and Diener 1993; Sachs 2003; Wu and Yao 2006; Wu et al. 2009).”
• Perfectionism, Depression, Loneliness, and Life Satisfaction (2009, methodology): “Internal consistencies of SWLS scores ranged from .71 to .82 for samples of Chinese participants from Hong Kong (Sachs, 2003; Shek, 1998) and .67 for a sample of 1,156 participants from China (Leung & Leung, 1992).”