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...

abstract: the subject of the life satisfaction is one of the important issues in development economics literature. in this paper, the main determinants of life satisfaction such as economic factors have been considered. for data analysis, the indices of life satisfaction have been collected among 400 people in tehran and neibouring provinces by applying stratified random sampling method. then, ...

BACKGROUND Psychological life satisfaction is a robust predictor of wellbeing. Public health measures to improve wellbeing would benefit from an understanding of how overall life satisfaction varies as a function of satisfaction with multiple life domains, an area that has been little explored. We examine a sample of drought-affected Australian farmers and a general community sample of Australi...

urban quality of life represents more than the private “living standards” and refers to all the elements of the conditions in which people live, that is, all their needs and requirements. in economic literature, urban quality of life is usually assessed through the standard revealed-preference approach, which defines a qol index as the monetary value of urban amenities. this paper proposes an i...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the influence of race, gender, functional ability, and an array of preinjury, injury-related, and sociodemographic variables on life satisfaction trajectories over 10 years following moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). SETTING/PARTICIPANTS A sample of 3157 individuals with TBI from the TBI Model Systems database was included in this study. DESI...

the aim of this research work is to examine the effectiveness of the minnesota couples communication program on the quality of life and marital satisfaction. in this quasi-experimental study with control group, 60 individuals (30 couples) having marital conflicts and referring to the counseling centers affiliated to the education department of mashhad were selected through the random sampling m...