Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) (Cognitive Dimension of Subjective Well-Being) – Chinese Version

Description

A survey was conducted on January 2 and January 4, 2008, aboard train K632/K631 from Xinyang to Shangqiu, considering the randomness of selected subjects, ease of response, questionnaire return rate, and research efficiency and economic costs. A total of 600 questionnaires were distributed, with 558 returned. After excluding 49 invalid questionnaires, 509 valid responses were obtained. Among these, there were 311 males and 198 females; 244 urban residents, 99 county residents, 54 township residents, and 112 rural residents. The ages ranged from 16 to 66 years, with an average age of 27.22 years and a standard deviation of 8.61 years.

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Purpose

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Test Year

2008

Administration Method and Scoring

The study utilized SPSS 13.0 software to calculate the total correlation between five items and the total score to assess reliability. The results indicated correlations between 0.70 and 0.80 between all items and the total score, and correlations between 0.29 and 0.53 among the individual items, all reaching significance levels of PReliability and Validity
Reliability:
– Cronbach’s alpha: 0.78
– Split-half reliability: 0.70

Validity:
– Structural validity: Confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated that the five items of the satisfaction scale loaded onto a single latent variable (life satisfaction). The loadings ranged from 0.59 to 0.80, all reaching extremely significant levels (PFactors and Subscales
校标效度 (Criterion-related validity):
– The correlation of scores on the life satisfaction scale was calculated against scores on the Positive Affect Scale (积极情感分量表), Negative Affect Scale (消极情感分量表), and a single-item measure of overall well-being (总体幸福感单题量表). The correlations found were as follows:
– Positive Affect Scale: r=0.42, PKeywords
Life Satisfaction, Reliability, Validity, Questionnaire, Survey

Items in Chinese

完全不符合
不符合
不太符合
不确定
比较符合
符合
完全符合

Items in English

Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Somewhat Disagree
Neutral
Somewhat Agree
Agree
Strongly Agree

References

Diener, E. D., Emmons, R. A., Larsen, R. J., & Griffin, S. (1985). The satisfaction with life scale. Journal of personality assessment, 49(1), 71-75.
熊承清, & 许远理. (2009). 生活满意度量表中文版在民众中使用的信度和效度.中国健康心理学杂志, (8), 948-949.
陈静, 杨宏飞. 杭州市大学生生活满意感调查[J]. 中国临床心理学杂志, 2003(03):45-46.