A psychometric evaluation of the Satisfaction with Life Scale in a Swedish nationwide sample of university students

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1070-1079

  Hultell, Daniel ^a   Petter Gustavsson, J ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Age differences; Measurement invariance; Multi group confirmatory factor analysis; Satisfaction With Life Scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149113843     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.10.030     Document Type: Article

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