“…A recent search of the Social Science Citation Index shows that this scale has been used in more than 4,000 studies. The SWLS has been translated into Arabic (Abdallah 1998), Chinese (Sachs 2004), Czech (Lewis et al 1999), Dutch (Arrindell et al 1999), French (Blais et al 1990;Fouquereau and Rioux 2002), Norwegian (Vittersø et al 2005), Portuguese (Neto 1993b), Russian (Balatsky and Diener 1993), and Spanish (Atienza et al , 2003Pons et al 2000Pons et al , 2002. The SWLS has also been used with different groups such as children , adolescents (Atienza et al 2003;Neto 1993b;Pons et al 2000;Gilman and Huebner 2001), undergraduate students (Diener et al 1985;Shevlin and Bunting 1995), adults (Arrindell et al 1999;Blais et al 1990), non-psychiatric medical outpatients (Arrindell et al 1991), elderly persons (Pons et al 2002), pregnant women (Martinez et al 2004), and migrants (Neto 1993a(Neto , 2001.…”