A cross-cultural evaluation of the students’ life satisfaction scale in chinese and american adolescents

An increasing body of research has attended to the seemingly large differences in the levels of life satisfaction among young people across Eastern and Western cultures. However, little empirical evidence is available on the cultural equivalence of the life satisfaction measure, particularly among adolescents. We evaluated the measurement invariance of the Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (SLSS: Huebner 1991a, b) using American (N = 921) and...