Discriminant validity evidence for the multilingual Life Satisfaction Scale for Apostolic Women Religious (LSSAWR)

ABSTRACT

Worldwide intergovernmental organizations are encouraging nations to use well-being and economic measures when making policy decisions. The Life Satisfaction Scale for Apostolic Women Religious (LSSAWR) has provided Catholic Sisters the opportunity to explore their well-being and mission worldwide. However, there is a continuing need for research to support the use and the interpretations of scores resulting from LSSAWR administration. Thus, this study provided discriminant validity evidence for LSSAWR ratings by comparing its scores with self-reported ratings on overall health screening questions as measured by the Health Screening Questionnaire.

KEYWORDS:

• Life satisfaction
• Catholic women religious
• validity
• generation cohort
• well-being

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

The work was supported by the Conrad National Hilton Foundation for Sisters.