Life satisfaction around the world

Autor(en): Viren Swami, Stefan Stieger, Martin Voracek, Toivo Aavik, Hamed Abdollahpour Ranjbar, Sulaiman Olanrewaju Adebayo, Reza Afhami, Oli Ahmed, Annie Aimé, Marwan Akel, Hussam Al Halbusi, George Alexias, Khawla F. Ali, Nursel Alp-Dal, Anas B. Alsalhani, Sara Álvarez-Solas, Ana Carolina Soares Amaral, Sonny Andrianto, Trefor Aspden, Marios Argyrides, John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta, Stephen Atkin, Olusola Ayandele, Migle Baceviciene, Radvan Bahbouh, Andrea Ballesio, David Barron, Ashleigh Bellard, Sóley Sesselja Bender, Kerime Derya Beydaǧ, Gorana Birovljević, Marie Ève Blackburn, Teresita Borja-Alvarez, Joanna Borowiec, Miroslava Bozogáňová, Solfrid Bratland-Sanda, Matthew H.E.M. Browning, Anna Brytek-Matera, Marina Burakova, Yeliz Çakır-Koçak, Pablo Camacho, Vittorio Emanuele Camilleri, Valentina Cazzato, Silvia Cerea, Apitchaya Chaiwutikornwanich, Trawin Chaleeraktrakoon, Tim Chambers, Qing Wei Chen, Xin Chen, Chin Lung Chien, Phatthanakit Chobthamkit, Bovornpot Choompunuch, Emilio J. Compte, Jennifer Corrigan, Getrude Cosmas, Richard G. Cowden, Kamila Czepczor-Bernat, Marcin Czub, Wanderson Roberto da Silva, Mahboubeh Dadfar, Simon E. Dalley, Lionel Dany, Jesus Alfonso D. Datu, Pedro Henrique Berbert de Carvalho, Gabriel Lins de Holanda Coelho, Avila Odia S. De Jesus, Sonia Harzallah Debbabi, Sandesh Dhakal, Francesca Di Bernardo, Donka D. Dimitrova, Jacinthe Dion, Barnaby Dixson, Stacey M. Donofrio, Marius Drysch, Hongfei Du, Angel M. Dzhambov, Claire El-Jor, Violeta Enea, Mehmet Eskin, Farinaz Farbod, Lorleen Farrugia, Leonie Fian, Maryanne L. Fisher, Michał Folwarczny, David A. Frederick, Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Adrian Furnham, Antonio Alías García, Shulamit Geller, Marta Ghisi, Alireza Ghorbani, Maria Angeles Gomez Martinez, Sarah Gradidge, Sylvie Graf, Caterina Grano, Gyöngyvér Gyene, Souheil Hallit, Motasem Hamdan, Jonathan E. Handelzalts, Paul H.P. Hanel, Steven R. Hawks, Issa Hekmati, Mai Helmy, Tetiana Hill, Farah Hina, Geraldine Holenweger, Martina Hřebíčková, Olasupo Augustine Ijabadeniyi, Asma Imam, Başak İnce, Natalia Irrazabal, Rasa Jankauskiene, Ding Yu Jiang, Micaela Jiménez-Borja, Verónica Jiménez-Borja, Evan M. Johnson, Veljko Jovanović, Marija Jović, Marko Jović, Alessandra Costa Pereira Junqueira, Lisa Marie Kahle, Adam Kantanista, Ahmet Karakiraz, Ayşe Nur Karkin, Erich Kasten, Salam Khatib, Nuannut Khieowan, Patricia Joseph Kimong, Litza Kiropoulos, Joshua Knittel, Neena Kohli, Mirjam Koprivnik, Aituar Kospakov, Magdalena Król-Zielińska, Isabel Krug, Garry Kuan, Yee Cheng Kueh, Omar Kujan, Miljana Kukić, Sanjay Kumar, Vipul Kumar, Nishtha Lamba, Mary Anne Lauri, Maria Fernanda Laus, Liza April LeBlanc, Hyejoo J. Lee, Małgorzata Lipowska, Mariusz Lipowski, Caterina Lombardo, Andrea Lukács, Christophe Maïano, Sadia Malik, Mandar Manjary, Lidia Márquez Baldó, Martha Martinez-Banfi, Karlijn Massar, Camilla Matera, Olivia McAnirlin, Moisés Roberto Mebarak, Anwar Mechri, Juliana Fernandes Filgueiras Meireles, Norbert Mesko, Jacqueline Mills, Maya Miyairi, Ritu Modi, Adriana Modrzejewska, Justyna Modrzejewska, Kate E. Mulgrew, Taryn A. Myers, Hikari Namatame, Mohammad Zakaria Nassani, Amanda Nerini, Félix Neto, Joana Neto, Angela Nogueira Neves, Siu Kuen Ng, Devi Nithiya, O. Jiaqing, Sahar Obeid, Camila Oda-Montecinos, Peter Olamakinde Olapegba, Tosin Tunrayo Olonisakin, Salma Samir Omar, Brynja Örlygsdóttir, Emrah Özsoy, Tobias Otterbring, Sabine Pahl, Maria Serena Panasiti, Yonguk Park, Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary, Tatiana Pethö, Nadezhda Petrova, Jakob Pietschnig, Sadaf Pourmahmoud, Vishnunarayan Girishan Prabhu, Vita Poštuvan, Pavol Prokop, Virginia L. Ramseyer Winter, Magdalena Razmus, Taotao Ru, Mirjana Rupar, Reza N. Sahlan, Mohammad Salah Hassan, Anđela Šalov, Saphal Sapkota, Jacob Owusu Sarfo, Yoko Sawamiya, Katrin Schaefer, Michael Schulte-Mecklenbeck, Veya Seekis, Kerim Selvi, Mehdi Sharifi, Anita Shrivastava, Rumana Ferdousi Siddique, Valdimar Sigurdsson, Vineta Silkane, Ana Šimunić, Govind Singh, Alena Slezáčková, Christine Sundgot-Borgen, Gill Ten Hoor, Passagorn Tevichapong, Arun Tipandjan, Jennifer Todd, Constantinos Togas, Fernando Tonini, Juan Camilo Tovar-Castro, Lise Katrine Jepsen Trangsrud, Pankaj Tripathi, Otilia Tudorel, Tracy L. Tylka, Anar Uyzbayeva, Zahir Vally, Edmunds Vanags, Luis Diego Vega, Aitor Vicente-Arruebarrena, Jose Vidal-Mollón, Roosevelt Vilar, Hyxia Villegas, Mona Vintilă, Christoph Wallner, Mathew P. White, Simon Whitebridge, Sonja Windhager, Kah Yan Wong, Eric Kenson Yau, Yuko Yamamiya, Victoria Wai Lan Yeung, Marcelo Callegari Zanetti, Magdalena Zawisza, Nadine Zeeni, Martina Zvaríková, Ulrich S. Tran
Abstrakt: The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) is a widely used self-report measure of subjective well-being, but studies of its measurement invariance across a large number of nations remain limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset–with data collected between 2020 and 2022 –to assess measurement invariance of the SWLS across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups (N = 56,968). All participants completed the SWLS under largely uniform conditions. Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis indicated that configural and metric invariance was upheld across all nations, languages, gender identities, and age groups, suggesting that the unidimensional SWLS model has universal applicability. Full scalar invariance was achieved across gender identities and age groups. Based on alignment optimisation methods, partial scalar invariance was achieved across all but three national groups and across all languages represented in the BINS. There were large differences in latent SWLS means across nations and languages, but negligible-to-small differences across gender identities and age groups. Across nations, greater life satisfaction was significantly associated with greater financial security and being in a committed relationship or married. The results of this study suggest that the SWLS largely assesses a common unidimensional construct of life satisfaction irrespective of respondent characteristics (i.e., national group, gender identities, and age group) or survey presentation (i.e., survey language). This has important implications for the assessment of life satisfaction across nations and provides information that will be useful for practitioners aiming to promote subjective well-being internationally.
Organisation(en): Fakultät für Psychologie, Institut für Psychologie der Kognition, Emotion und Methoden, Forschungsplattform Plastics in the Environment and Society, Institut für Psychologie der Entwicklung und Bildung, Department für Evolutionäre Anthropologie, Forschungsverbund Human Evolution and Archaeological Sciences (HEAS), Forschungsverbund Kognitionswissenschaft
Externe Organisation(en): Anglia Ruskin University, Perdana University, Karl Landsteiner Privatuniversität für Gesundheitswissenschaften, University of Tartu, Koc University, Ekiti State University, Tarbiat Modares University, University of Chittagong, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Clinical Epidemiology and Toxicology, Lebanese International University, Ahmed Bin Mohammad Military College, Panteion University of Social and Political Science, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland-Bahrain, Munzur University, Vision Colleges, Ikiam - Universidad Regional Amazónica, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology, Universitas Islam Indonesia, University of Wales, Neapolis University, De La Salle University, The Polytechnic, Ibadan, University of Ibadan (UI), Klaipėda University, Charles University Prague, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Tilburg University, Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), University of Iceland, Yalova University, University of Rijeka, Cégep de Jonquière, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Poznan University of Physical Education, University of Prešov, University of South-Eastern Norway, Clemson University, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Aix-Marseille Université, Bartın University, San Isidoro Centro Universitario, University of Malta, Università degli Studi di Messina, Università degli Studi di Padova, Chulalongkorn University, Thammasat University, Deakin University, South China Normal University, NYU Langone Health, Soochow Universität, Mahasarakham University, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Comenzar de Nuevo Treatment Center, University College Cork, University Malaysia Sabah, Harvard University, Medical University of Silesia in Katowic, Universidade Estadual Paulista „Júlio de Mesquita Filho“, Iran University of Medical Sciences, University of Groningen, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, University of Sousse, Tribhuvan University, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Plovdiv Medical University, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, University of the Sunshine Coast, BG Universitätsklinikum Bergmannsheil, Beijing Normal University, Lebanese American University, Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza“ Iași, Alzahra University, Saint Mary's University, University of Galway, Chapman University, BI Norwegian Business School, Universidad de Almería, The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Payame Noor University, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Czech Academy of Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Applied Science Private University, Al-Quds University, University of Michigan, University of Essex, Utah State University (USU), University of Maragheh, Sultan Qaboos University, University of Hertfordshire, University of Cambridge, Universität Bern, Afe Babalola University, King's College London, Universidad de Palermo, National Chung-Cheng University (CCU), University of Novi Sad (UNS), University of Belgrade, University of Ribeirão Preto, Medical School Hamburg, Sakarya University, Practice for Psychotherapy, Prince of Songkla University, University of Melbourne, University of Allahabad, Primary School Montessori, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Astana IT University, Universiti Sains Malaysia, University of Western Australia, D.A.V. College, Kashi Naresh Government Post-Graduate College, Middlesex University Dubai, Handong Global University, University of Gdańsk, University WSB Merito, University of Miskolc, University of Sargodha, M.M.D. Public School, Universitat de València, Universidad Simón Bolivar, Universitätsklinikum Maastricht, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Universidad del Norte, Eya Medical Centre, University of Oklahoma Tulsa, University of Pécs, DePaul University, University of Bielsko-Biala, Virginia Wesleyan University, University of Tsukuba, Dar Al Uloom University, Universidade do Porto, Universidade Portucalense, Brazilian Army Physical Education School, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Universidad de O'Higgins, Alexandria University, University of Agder, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Kyungnam University, Environment and Sustainability Research Initiative, Khulna University, University of North Carolina, University of Primorska, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS), University of Missouri-Columbia, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, State University of New York, Buffalo, A’Sharqiyah University, University of Zadar, KOSHISH National Mental Health Self-Help Organization, University of Cape Coast, Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Griffith University, Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Islamic Azad University , University of Dhaka, Reykjavik University, Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences, Masaryk University, University of Oslo, Chiang Mai University, International Centre for Psychological Counselling and Social Research, Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), West University of Timisoara, Ohio State University, United Arab Emirates University, University of Latvia (LU), Universidad Latina de Costa Rica, Massey University, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Lingnan University, Temple University, Japan, Universidade Sao Judas Tadeu
Journal: PLoS ONE
Band: 20
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313107
Publikationsdatum: 01-2025
Peer-reviewed: Ja
ÖFOS 2012: 501004 Differentielle Psychologie, 501010 Klinische Psychologie
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete: General
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