Satisfaction with Life Scale
Sample items
- “In most ways, my life is close to ideal.”
Reliability & validity
Reliability & validity evidence is syncing from Principia.
Sources
- Diener et al.
Deploy it
The full item bank and survey deployment live in the People Analytics Toolbox (the enterprise survey-item library), with the min-N privacy gate.
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“The Q-LES-Q is associated in expected ways with measures of symptoms and impairment, and has been shown to detect clinical changes in response to treatment (Rabkin et al., 2000). Quality of Life Index (QLI; Ferrans & Powers, 1985) The QLI is a self-report measure (70 items)…”
— Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Groupsmatch 62%
“These concepts can best be understood by considering an example.Psychologists are increasingly examining factors such as happiness, lifesatisfaction, self-esteem, optimism, and other indicators of well-being (Lucas,Diener, & Suh, 1996). However, it’s not clear whether these…”
— Research Methods in Psychologymatch 60%
“Internal State Scale (ISS; Bauer et al., 1991) The ISS is a 15-item self-report scale using a visual analogue scale approach. The scale seems to work well even when patients are manic or hypomanic. Patients respond to various items (e.g., “Today I feel irritable,” “Today I feel…”
— Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Groupsmatch 60%
Resources: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Groups · Research Methods in Psychology