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Wellbeing and positive psychology

Students' Life Satisfaction Scale.

SLSS

What it measures
Global (context-free) life satisfaction in children and young adolescents; unidimensional.
Length and format
7 (original 1991 version). Likert (commonly 6-pt agreement; some studies use 4- or 7-pt) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Adapted into many languages for child well-being surveys (ES, ZH, PT, KO and others); used in the international Children's Worlds (ISCWeB) programme
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
public-domain / open

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Reference
Huebner, E. S. (1991). Initial development of the Students' Life Satisfaction Scale. School Psychology International, 12(3), 231-240.

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