Psychometric Properties of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) Among Middle Adolescents in a Collectivist Cultural S
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Psychometric Properties of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) Among Middle Adolescents in a Collectivist Cultural Setting Shaljan Areepattamannil1
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Samina Bano2
Received: 23 June 2019 / Accepted: 7 October 2020 Ó National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) India 2020
Abstract Although a growing body of research has examined the psychometric properties of the Satisfaction with Life Scale among late adolescent, adult, and older adult populations, there is a dearth of research examining the properties among middle adolescents across countries and cultures. This study therefore examined the psychometric properties—reliability, validity, temporal stability, and gender invariance—of the SWLS among a sample of middle adolescent students attending English-medium schools in the collectivist cultural setting of India. McDonald’s omega coefficient indicated that the SWLS scores showed evidence of reliability. The results of confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated the factorial validity of the SWLS scores. Bivariate correlational analyses provided support for the convergent and discriminant validity of the SWLS scores. The results of hierarchical multiple regression analyses revealed that the SWLS scores significantly and positively predicted engagement scores and overall school GPA, thereby demonstrating the predictive validity of the SWLS scores. The test–retest reliability coefficient demonstrated the temporal stability of the SWLS scores. The results of multigroup confirmatory factor analysis provided support for gender invariance in the SWLS scores. Taken together, the results show that the SWLS is a psychometrically sound measure appropriate for assessing subjective well-being among middle adolescents
& Shaljan Areepattamannil [email protected] 1
Assessment and School Evaluation Division, Emirates College for Advanced Education, P O Box 126662, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Department of Psychology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
enrolled in English-medium schools in a collectivist culture.
Introduction In recent years, a growing corpus of research has examined the crucial role that subjective well-being plays in individuals’ health and longevity (e.g., Diener, Pressman, Hunter, & Delgadillo-Chase, 2017b), social relationships (Diener et al., 2017a), social problem solving skills (e.g., Jiang, Lyons, & Huebner, 2016), academic engagement and achievement (e.g., Antaramian, 2017; Heffner & Antaramian, 2016), and academic self-efficacy, academic stress, and achievement goals (e.g., Antaramian, 2017). Notwithstanding the critical role that subjective well-being plays in individuals’ physical, social, psychological, and academic development, there have been a very few psychometrically sound, well-validated instruments to measure the subjective well-being of middle adolescents in both individualist and collectivist cultures. The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS; Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985) is one of the most widely used measures of subjective well-being. The SWLS was
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