Folio Surveyor · preview

Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), ready to run

A 5-item self-report instrument assessing global cognitive judgments of one's life satisfaction as a component of subjective well-being.

5 items · 7-point Likert scale

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Read-only. Nothing is saved until you have an account. Then the SWLS is imported into a new study with its full item wording, in the structure shown below.

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Item wording for the SWLS is available inside Folio Surveyor, subject to the instrument's licensing. The structure below (its sections, items and response scale) is what gets built for you.

The instrument

5 items

Each item is answered on this scale:

Strongly disagreeDisagreeSlightly disagreeNeither agree nor disagreeSlightly agreeAgreeStrongly agree

Collect responses on the SWLS

Creating an account builds this study for you (the full wording of all 5 items, scoring, reverse-keyed items and subscale totals already wired up) and gives you a link to send participants.

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← Back to the SWLS reference page · Metadata and item wording are provided for research use; cite the original publication.