L'échelle de satisfaction de vie: Validation canadienne-française du "Satisfaction with Life Scale."

Abstract
Diener and his colleagues (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, and Griffin, 1985), have recently developed a self-report scale evaluating global life satisfaction. the measure has good psychometric properties, can be administered to different age groups, and can be answered quickly. To the best of our knowledge, there is presently no such instrument in the French language with acceptable psychometric properties. The purpose of this article was thus to translate into French the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS; Diener et al., 1985) and to validate this French version called l''Echelle de Satisfaction de Vie (ESV) with French-Canadian students and elderly persons. The psychometric properties of the ESV were evaluated through five studies implicating 827 college (CEGEP) students (Studies 1 and 2), 44 university students (Study 3) and 313 elderly persons (Studies 4 and 5). Results of these studies demonstrate consistently acceptable reliability and validity indices, as well as similar psychometric properties with the original version (SWLC). Furthermore, the unidimensional structure of the satisfaction with life construct was confirmed through exploratory and confirmatory (i.e. LISREL) factor analyses with both students and elderly persons. LISREL confirmatory factor analyses also demonstrate empirically that the factorial structure between these two populations is equivalent. Norms are presented for the college students and the elderly persons.

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