Satisfaction With Life

Introduction to satisfaction with life scale

This simple survey is a trusted tool for measuring how you feel right now about your level of satisfaction with life, which can also be a guide to how happy you are in the present moment.

​If you would like to complete the 5 item questionnaire below we will then send you a short summary of the outcome and invite you to explore this in more depth, should you wish.

The SWLS is a short 5-item instrument designed to measure global cognitive judgments of satisfaction with one’s life. The scale usually requires only about one minute of a respondent’s time.

Ed Diener, Robert A. Emmons, Randy J. Larsen and Sharon Griffin as noted in the 1985 article in the Journal of Personality Assessment.