Harmony in Life Scale.
HILS
- What it measures
- Harmony in life - a sense of balance, flexibility, and being in tune with the world and one's circumstances; a complement to the goal-attainment framing of life satisfaction (SWLS).
- Length and format
- 5 items. 7-pt Likert (1 strongly disagree - 7 strongly agree); range 5-35 (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Adapted into ES, ZH, PT, SV and others
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Kjell, O. N. E., Daukantaite, D., Hefferon, K., & Sikstrom, S. (2016). The Harmony in Life Scale complements the Satisfaction With Life Scale. Social Indicators Research, 126(2), 893-919.
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