title: Brief multidimensional students' life satisfaction scale: sex, race, and grade effects for a high school sample.
abstract: Preliminary normative data for the total score of the Brief Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale were collected from 5,034 adolescents in Grades 9 through 12 at public high schools in South Carolina. The statistically significant mean differences by race were of small magnitude. Mean total scores did not differ by sex or grade in school.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA. huebner@sc.edu
authors.forename: E Scott
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Huebner
authors.forename: Shannon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suldo
authors.forename: Robert F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Valois
authors.forename: J Wanzer
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Drane
authors.forename: Keith
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zullig
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D044383:Black People / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012737:Sex Factors; D013022:South Carolina; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology*; D001741:Black or African American