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The Implicit Life Satisfaction Measure
Author(s) -
Kim DoYeong
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
asian journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.5
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-839X
pISSN - 1367-2223
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-839x.2004.00148.x
Subject(s) - psychology , life satisfaction , internal consistency , implicit association test , measure (data warehouse) , consistency (knowledge bases) , affect (linguistics) , social psychology , association (psychology) , cognitive psychology , clinical psychology , psychometrics , psychotherapist , mathematics , data mining , computer science , geometry , communication
The Implicit Association Test, developed by Greenwald and colleagues in 1998, was adapted to measure satisfaction with life by assessing the strength of automatic associations of My life with Good‐ versus Bad‐related words. A series of studies explored some psychometric as well as methodological properties of the Implicit Life Satisfaction measure (ILS). The ILS demonstrated good internal consistency and moderate temporal stability. Studies revealed that: (i) the type of stimuli used for target and attribute categories influences the magnitude of the ILS effect; (ii) participants could voluntarily suppress their satisfaction with life on the ILS, but not enhance it; and (iii) handedness of categories did not affect the participants’ performance on the ILS. Overall, the ILS measures are: (i) independent of traditional life satisfaction self‐report measures; and (ii) positive for most people.