Jovanovic, Veljko and Rudnev, Maksim and Arslan, Gökmen and Buzea, Carmen and Dimitrova, Radosveta and Gongora, Vanesa and Guse, Tharina and Ho, Rainbow T.H. and Iqbal, Naved and Jambori, Szilvia and Jhang, Fang-Hua and Kaniušonytė, Goda and Li, Jingguang and Lim, Young-Jin and Lodi, Ernesto and Mannerström, Rasmus and Marcionetti, Jenny and Neto, Felix and Osin, Evgeny and et, al. (2022) The Satisfaction with Life Scale in adolescent samples: Measurement invariance across 24 countries and regions, age, and gender. Applied Research in Quality of Life.
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Measurement of adolescent life satisfaction across cultures has not received much attention in previous empirical research. The present study evaluated measurement invariance of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) among adolescents in 24 countries and regions (N = 22,710; age range = 13–19 years; 53% female). A single-factor model with residual covariance between a pair of items tapping past life satisfaction fitted well in 19 countries and regions and showed a partial metric invariance. In a subset of nine countries and regions, partial scalar invariance was supported. Partial metric invariance across all 24 countries and regions was achieved when custom model modifications in five countries and regions were included. Three SWLS items showed evidence of noninvariance across cultures. The measurement model was found to operate similarly across gender and age. Our findings suggest that caution is needed when using the SWLS for measuring life satisfaction among adolescents from different cultures.
| Item Type: | Scientific journal article, Newspaper article or Magazine article |
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| Subjects: | Social studies > Development studies Education > Others in education > Education not elsewhere classified |
| Department/unit: | Dipartimento formazione e apprendimento / Alta scuola pedagogica > Centro competenze innovazione e ricerca sui sistemi educativi |
| Depositing User: | Jenny Marcionetti |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Sep 2022 13:40 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2022 13:41 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/13548 |
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