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Abbreviated Three-Item Versions of the Satisfaction with Life Scale and the Harmony in Life Scale Yield as Strong Psychometric Properties as the Original Scales

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The SWLS-3 and the HILS-3 demonstrate good psychometric properties, including very high internal consistency and item total correlations, strong test-retest reliability, where two-factor models of cognitive well-being tend to yield very good fit indices.
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The cognitive components of subjective well-being can be measured with the Satisfaction with life scale (SWLS) and the Harmony in life scale (HILS), which both comprise five items each. The aim of ...

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Is the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) german?

The paper does not mention whether the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) is German or not. The paper is about the psychometric properties of abbreviated versions of the SWLS and the Harmony in Life Scale (HILS).