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PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages 239-244Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/pas0000181
Keywords
life satisfaction; Satisfaction With Life Scale; measurement invariance; factorial invariance; cross-national
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- NIA NIH HHS [U19 AG051426, P01 AG020166, R37 AG027343] Funding Source: Medline
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Measurement invariance of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) was examined in probability samples of adults 50-79 years of age living in the United States, England, and Japan. Confirmatory factor analysis modeling was used to test for multigroup measurement invariance of a single-factor structure of the SWLS. Results support a single-factor structure of the SWLS across the 3 countries, with tests of measurement invariance of the SWLS supporting its configural invariance and metric invariance. These results suggest that the SWLS may be used as a single-factor measure of life satisfaction in the United States, England, and Japan, and that it is appropriate to compare correlates of the SWLS in middle-aged and older adults across these 3 countries. However, results provided evidence for only partial scalar invariance, with the intercept for SWLS Item 4 varying across countries. Cross-national comparisons of means revealed a lower mean at the latent variable level for the Japanese sample than for the other 2 samples. In addition, over and above the latent mean difference, the Japanese sample also manifested a significantly lower intercept on Item 4. Implications of the findings for research on cross-national comparisons of life satisfaction in European American and East Asian countries are discussed.
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