López-Guerra Victor Manuel, Pucha-Loarte Tatiana Isabel, Angelucci Luisa T, Torres-Carrión Pablo V
Department of Psychology, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador.
Faculty of Humanities and Education, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas, Venezuela.
Front Psychol. 2025 Mar 20;16:1536973. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1536973. eCollection 2025.
The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) measures the global cognitive judgment about one's own life. Although it has been validated in different countries and populations, in the Ecuadorian context, it has not been validated for a university population.
The present study aimed to analyze the psychometric properties of the SWLS in a large sample of Ecuadorian college students.
Instrumental-psychometric study with a sample of 4,524 participants from three Ecuadorian universities, with an average age of 22 (±3.15). The SWLS was evaluated in terms of its factor structure, factorial invariance, internal consistency and correlations with other measures related to mental health.
The SWLS factor structure optimally fits the single-factor model ( = 3.79; CFI = 0.998; TLI = 0.996; SRMR = 0.023; RMSEA = 0.030). This model is invariant between men and women. The internal consistency of this instrument is acceptable according to the omega coefficient ( = 0.84). The scores of this scale correlate, as expected, negatively with constructs such as depression and stress.
The SWLS is a valid and reliable instrument to assess the personal perception of life satisfaction of Ecuadorian university students.
生活满意度量表(SWLS)用于衡量个体对自身生活的整体认知判断。尽管该量表已在不同国家和人群中得到验证,但在厄瓜多尔,尚未针对大学生群体进行验证。
本研究旨在分析生活满意度量表(SWLS)在大量厄瓜多尔大学生样本中的心理测量特性。
采用工具性心理测量研究方法,样本来自厄瓜多尔三所大学的4524名参与者,平均年龄为22岁(±3.15)。从因子结构、因子不变性、内部一致性以及与其他心理健康相关测量指标的相关性等方面对生活满意度量表进行评估。
生活满意度量表的因子结构与单因子模型拟合最优(χ² = 3.79;CFI = 0.998;TLI = 0.996;SRMR = 0.023;RMSEA = 0.030)。该模型在男性和女性群体之间具有不变性。根据欧米伽系数(ω = 0.84),该量表的内部一致性可接受。正如预期的那样,该量表得分与抑郁和压力等构念呈负相关。
生活满意度量表是评估厄瓜多尔大学生生活满意度个人认知的有效且可靠的工具。