Development of the Contentment with Life Assessment Scale (CLAS): Using Daily Life Experiences to Verify Levels of Self-Reported Life Satisfaction

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life satisfaction, life satisfaction measurement, subjective well-being, contentment, daily diary methodology,

Visual impairment and health-related quality of life among elderly adults with age-related eye diseases

“…In Jiang's study [38], however, respondents reporting poorer general health were more likely to be physically unhealthy than mentally unhealthy. Life satisfaction, on the other hand, has already been viewed as a dimension of mental health [39,40]. It has high correlation with depressive symptoms, self-esteem, anxiety, psychosomatic symptom, and other diagnosed mental diseases, all of which are aspects of mental health [41][42][43].…”

Yaşam Memnuni̇yeti̇ Ölçeği̇ (Ymö) Türkçe Formu: Geçerli̇k Ve Güveni̇rli̇k Çalişmasi

“…In this case appears to be strong need to have a reliable and valid measurement tool to measure Turkish individual's levels of contentment with life. Contentment With Life Scale (CLAS; Lavallee et al, 2007) may be considered as a helpful tool to fill in this need but there is no study indicating the tool's level of reliability and validity in Turkey. Thus the aim of this research is to translate the CLAS to Turkish and to examine its psychometric properties.…”

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AbstractThe aim of this research is to examine the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Contentment With Life Scale (CLAS); (Lavallee, Hatch, Michalos, & McKinley, 2007). Participants were 295 university students.

Results of confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated that this scale yielded one factor, as original form (x 2 = 11.46, df= 4, RMSEA= .080, CFI= .98, IFI= .98, GFI= .98, AGFI= .94, SRMR= .033).

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Arts and the Perceived Quality of Life in British Columbia

“…Forty-nine percent of respondents agreed or strongly agreed with this statement. Table 5f describes the Contentment with Life Assessment Scale (CLAS) developed by Lavallee et al (2007), which has five items and an a = 0.87. A good representative item is 'I am very content with my life', which has an item-total correlation of r = 0.76.…”

“…These included questions about life as a whole and about specific domains and aspects of life, e.g., family relations, friendships, sense of meaning in life. Seven overall assessments of life were used as dependent variables in this study: (1) self-reported general health using a 5-point scale from poor to excellent, (2) satisfaction with life as a whole using a 7-point scale from very dissatisfied to very satisfied, (3) satisfaction with the overall quality of life using a 7-point scale from very dissatisfied to very satisfied, (4) happiness with life as a whole using a 7-point scale from very unhappy to very happy, (5) satisfaction with life as a whole using a 5-item index drawn from Diener et al (1985), (6) contentment with life using a 5-item index drawn from Lavallee et al (2007) and (7) subjective wellbeing using a 4-item index (Michalos et al 2005). All measures of satisfaction with particular domains or aspects of life were formatted as 7-point scales running from very dissatisfied to very satisfied and these measures have been used around the world for over 30 years (Michalos 2005a).…”