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Caroline Reppold
Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre
Brazil
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0236-2553
Biography
Vanessa Kaiser
Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre
Brazil
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1411-7344
Cristian Zanon
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, RS, Brasil. Bolsista Produtividade do CNPq.
Brazil
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3822-5275
Biography
Claudio Hutz
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Brazil
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3252-7339
Biography
Joana R. Casanova
Universidade do Minho
Portugal
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0652-3438
Biography
Leandro S. Almeida
Universidade do Minho
Portugal
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0651-7014
Biography
Vol. 6 No. 1 (2019), Articles, pages 15-23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/reipe.2019.6.1.4617
Submitted: Oct 25, 2018 Accepted: May 17, 2019 Published: Jul 1, 2019
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This paper presents new data on the reliability and validity of results in the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) among university students. A sample of 545 students from a Portuguese public university was considered. The unidimensionality of the scale was confirmed, with all factor loadings higher than .60, although their invariance according to the gender of the students was not confirmed, and it was not advisable to compare the results between men and women. Moderate positive and negative correlations with positive and negative affects assessed through the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) translate evidence of criterion validity. The internal consistency of the results in the fifth items of the ESV was .77, considered adequate face the reduced number of items.

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