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  1. Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS)
    Source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Format: Text
    Annotation: The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) is a measure of global cognitive judgments of one's life satisfaction (not a measure of either positive or negative affect). To complete the scale, participants indicate how much they agree or disagree with each of the five items using a seven-point scale that ranges from 7 (strongly agree) to 1 (strongly disagree). This resource was identified by the NIH Disaster Research Response Program (DR2) for researchers looking for pre- and post-disaster data collection instruments.

    Ease of Use in Disaster Setting: Easy
    Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level: Grade 6.3
    Population: All/Anyone
    Length: Five questions
    Time to Complete: 1-5 minutes
    Administered by: Self Administered/Self Report
    Language(s): English, Portuguese, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Setswana, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean and Norwegian

    To obtain translations of this tool, visit: http://internal.psychology.illinois.edu/~ediener/SWLS.html
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    Type: Guideline/Assessment Tool
    Access Notes: Free/Publicly Available

    Citation(s):
    Bei B, Bryant C, Gilson KM, Koh J, Gibson P, Komiti A, Jackson A, Judd F. A prospective study of the impact of floods on the mental and physical health of older adults. Aging Ment Health. 2013;17(8):992-1002. Epub 2013 May 28. PubMed PMID: 23711204. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23711204. Subscription Required.

    Diener E, Emmons RA, Larsen RJ, Griffin S. The Satisfaction With Life Scale. J Pers Assess. 1985 Feb;49(1):71-5. PubMed PMID: 16367493. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16367493. Subscription required.

    Pavot W, Diener E, Colvin CR, Sandvik E. Further validation of the Satisfaction with Life Scale: evidence for the cross-method convergence of well-being measures. J Pers Assess. 1991 Aug;57(1):149-61. PubMed PMID: 1920028. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1920028. Subscription required.

    Corrigan JD, Kolakowsky-Hayner S, Wright J, Bellon K, Carufel P. The satisfaction with life scale. J Head Trauma Rehabil. 2013 Nov-Dec;28(6):489-91. doi: 10.1097/HTR.0000000000000004. PubMed PMID: 24189288. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24189288. Subscription required.

    The scale is copyrighted but it is free for use without permission or charge by all professionals (researchers and practitioners) as long as proper credit is given to the authors of the scale: Ed Diener, Robert A. Emmons, Randy J. Larsen, and Sharon Griffin, as noted in the 1985 article in the Journal of Personality Assessment.

    Contact information:

    Contact person: Professor Ed Diener
    Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Psychology
    Address: 603 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820
    Phone: 217-333-4804
    Fax: 217-244-5876
    Email: ediener@illinois.edu

    For more information:
    Institution: Fetzer Institute
    Web: http://www.fetzer.org/sites/default/files/images/stories/pdf/selfmeasures/SATISFACTION-SatisfactionWithLife.pdf

    Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Positive Psychology Center
    Web: http://ppc.sas.upenn.edu/resources/questionnaires-researchers/satisfaction-life-scale
    Includes Research Tools: Yes.
    ID: 9002. From: Disaster Lit®a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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