A New Measure of Life Satisfaction: The Riverside Life Satisfaction Scale
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Running head: RIVERSIDE LIFE SATISFACTION SCALE 1 A New Measure of Life Satisfaction: The Riverside Life Satisfaction Scale
The Satisfaction With Life Scale (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985) has been the dominant measure of life satisfaction since its creation over 30 years ago. We sought to develop an improved measure that includes indirect indicators of life satisfaction (e.g., wishing to change one’s life) to increase the bandwidth of the measure and account for acquiescence bias. In three studies, we dev...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Personality Assessment
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0022-3891,1532-7752
DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2018.1464457