Satisfaction with Later LIfe

         I look outside as winter approaches and think about how satisfied I am with life.  I’m seventy-two with quite a bit to do. I fired up the computer and came across a tool that may be useful to you in examining you life satisfaction.[i]   I think it might be useful to you.

         Below are five statements that you may agree or disagree with. Using the 1-7 scale below, indicate your agreement with each item by connecting the appropriate number for each statement. It will be valuable to you if you are open and honest with your responding. After all you will be the only person who see’s the results.

·      7 – Strongly agree

·      6 – Agree

·      5 – Slightly Agree

·      4 – Neither Agree nor disagree

·      3 – Slightly disagree

·      2 – Disagree

·      1 -  Strongly disagree

Then consider what results indicate and see if you agree

·      31 – 35  Extremely satisfied

·      26 – 30  Satisfied

·      21 – 28  Slightly satisfied

·      20          Neutral

·      15 – 19  Slightly satisfied

·      10 – 14  Dissatisfied

·       5 -   9    Extremely dissatisfied

Time marches on.

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[i]  J. Corrigan (2000). Satisfaction with life scale, The Center for outcome measurement in Brain Injury, http://www.tbims.org/combi/swis (accessed June, 18,2011)   *Note: This citation is for the COMBI web material. Dr. Corrigan is not the scale author for the SWLS