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Meadowet al. (1992) have developed a measure of life satisfaction based on judgment theory, referred to as Congruity Life Satisfaction (CLS). This paper reports the results of a major study involving six samples from different countries testing the construct validity of the CLS measure. The results of these studies provide additional validational support for the CLS measure.
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Sirgy, M.J., Cole, D., Kosenko, R. et al. A life satisfaction measure: Additional validational data for the Congruity Life Satisfaction measure. Soc Indic Res 34, 237–259 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01079198
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