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Validation of a Portuguese Version of the Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale

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The paper describes the development of the Portuguese version of the Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale and the examination of its psychometric properties. A sample of 367 Portuguese students completed the Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (SLSS; Huebner in Sch Psychol Int 12:231–240, 1991a), Children’s Hope Scale (CHS; Synder in J Pediatr Psychol 22:399–421, 1997), Global Self-Worth Sub-scale (Harter, S. (1985). Manual for the self-perception profile for children. Denver: University of Denver) and Mental Health Inventory-5 (MHI-5; Berwick et al. in Medical Care 29:169–176, 1991). The first step includes translation, back-translation, inspection for lexical equivalence and content validity, and cognitive debriefing. Then we considered reliability, factor structure, and criterion-related validity. The validation process of the Portuguese SLSS version shows psychometric properties similar to the English language SLSS, suggesting that it measures the same construct in the same way. Implications of these findings are discussed.

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This paper was supported by a FCT grant SFRH/BD/28423/2006.

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Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (SLSS)

Escala de Satisfação com a Vida (ESCV)

Gostaríamos de saber que pensamentos tens tido acerca da tua vida durante as últimas semanas. Pensa acerca da forma como passas cada dia e noite e de como tem sido a tua vida durante a maior parte deste tempo. As sete questões abaixo pedem-te para indicares a satisfação com a tua vida. Circula as palavras a seguir a cada frase que indicam o grau em que concordas ou discordas com cada frase. Por exemplo, se concordas totalmente com a frase “a vida é boa”, colocas um círculo em volta dessas palavras.

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O importante é saber o que realmente pensas, por isso, responde por favor às questões tendo em conta o modo como realmente pensas e não o modo como deverias pensar. Isto não é um teste. Não existem respostas certas ou erradas.

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Marques, S.C., Pais-Ribeiro, J.L. & Lopez, S.J. Validation of a Portuguese Version of the Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale. Applied Research Quality Life 2, 83–94 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-007-9031-5

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