posted 01-03-2003 01:50 PM            

Your question about using the SWLS with children has arisen before, but apparently no one was able to cite previous literature. I am relatively confident that the validation studies were on young adults; and I would be leery of its use with persons younger than their late teens.

Not being an expert on instruments for children, I can't be of much help here. Perhaps someone else will respond to your inquiry with alternate suggestions. You may want to contact the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (www.cdc.gov) to obtain a copy of their report from a 2001 Consensu Conference on measuring outcomes from TBI in children. Also, their website indicates: "A TBI can significantly affect a child’s health and development. However, no standardized, efficient method exists to monitor the health of children who sustain a TBI. In FY 2001, CDC funded The Johns Hopkins University to conduct a three-year evaluation of methods used to measure physical and psychosocial health outcomes of children with TBI. Validating and adopting a standardized health status survey that is appropriate for large-scale, ongoing surveillance of children’s health following a TBI will improve understanding of how these injuries affect children and will inform policy and research initiatives."

Good luck with your project.

--John Corrigan

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Originally posted by Lyanne_27:
Hello everybody...about the SWLS...I was wondering if it is an appropriate scale to use for children. I am making this research proposal about the corollation between the life aspiration and life satisfaction of the children of fisher folk...i have been looking for a scale to measure them both.This is the first scale that i came across. Is it alright to use this scale or can you guys suggest a better one?...i have also been thinking of using the subjective&objective well-being scale for the life satisfaction if the SWLS is not right. Do you think it is a good idea?...Is it alright if i add the KINDL quality of life instrument. Is it ok to mix up all the questions together from different instruments or would it ruin the whole thing?...thank you very much for the time and i hope you guys would respond. =)

-Lyanne-

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