Riverside Life Satisfaction Scale.
RLSS
- What it measures
- Global life satisfaction, designed to avoid the SWLS's confounding with affect and its past-focused item wording.
- Length and format
- 6 items. 7-pt Likert agreement (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Spanish, Turkish, Persian and Chinese adaptations reported - count unverified
- 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
- Margolis, S., Schwitzgebel, E., Ozer, D.J., & Lyubomirsky, S. (2019). A new measure of life satisfaction: The Riverside Life Satisfaction Scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 101(6), 621-630. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2018.1464457
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