Assessing the validity of single-item life satisfaction measures: results from three large samples.
Purpose: The present paper assessed the validity of single-item life satisfaction measures by comparing single-item measures to the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS)-a more psychometrically established measure.Methods: Two large samples from Washington (N = 13,064) and Oregon (N = 2,277) recruited...
| Publicado en: | Quality of Life Research Vol. 23; no. 10; pp. 2809 - 2819 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2014
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=109762510&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 109762510 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 09629343 GPQ jtl: Quality of Life Research issn: 09629343 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2014 vid: 23 iid: 10 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 109762510 NLM24890827 2012788693 10.1007/s11136-014-0726-4 NLM24890827 PMC4221492 109762510 ppf: 2809 ppct: 10 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Assessing the validity of single-item life satisfaction measures: results from three large samples. aug: au: Cheung, Felix Lucas, Richard E affil: Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48823, USA, felixckc@msu.edu. sug: subj: Personal Satisfaction Psychometrics Methods Quality of Life Psychosocial Factors Questionnaires Clinical Assessment Tools Female Germany Human Male Middle Age Scales Middle Aged: 45-64 years Female Male ab: Purpose: The present paper assessed the validity of single-item life satisfaction measures by comparing single-item measures to the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS)-a more psychometrically established measure.Methods: Two large samples from Washington (N = 13,064) and Oregon (N = 2,277) recruited by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and a representative German sample (N = 1,312) recruited by the Germany Socio-Economic Panel were included in the present analyses. Single-item life satisfaction measures and the SWLS were correlated with theoretically relevant variables, such as demographics, subjective health, domain satisfaction, and affect. The correlations between the two life satisfaction measures and these variables were examined to assess the construct validity of single-item life satisfaction measures.Results: Consistent across three samples, single-item life satisfaction measures demonstrated substantial degree of criterion validity with the SWLS (zero-order r = 0.62-0.64; disattenuated r = 0.78-0.80). Patterns of statistical significance for correlations with theoretically relevant variables were the same across single-item measures and the SWLS. Single-item measures did not produce systematically different correlations compared to the SWLS (average difference = 0.001-0.005). The average absolute difference in the magnitudes of the correlations produced by single-item measures and the SWLS was very small (average absolute difference = 0.015-0.042).Conclusions: Single-item life satisfaction measures performed very similarly compared to the multiple-item SWLS. Social scientists would get virtually identical answer to substantive questions regardless of which measure they use. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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