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The Brief Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale: Sex, Race, and Grade Effects for Applications with Middle School Students

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Preliminary normative data for the Brief Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS) total score were collected from 2,987 South Carolina middle school students in Grades 6 though 8. Tests for gender and ethnicity (African-American vs. Caucasian) effects were non-significant. Statistically significant differences between grade levels were discovered, but the magnitude of these differences was quite small. Thus, a single set of norms is appropriate for use when interpreting middle school students’ responses to the BMSLSS.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA

    E. Scott Huebner

  2. College of Education, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33620, USA

    Shannon M. Suldo

  3. Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA

    Robert F. Valois

  4. Department of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, 37614, USA

    J. Wanzer Drane

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Huebner, E.S., Suldo, S.M., Valois, R.F. et al. The Brief Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale: Sex, Race, and Grade Effects for Applications with Middle School Students. Applied Research Quality Life 1, 211–216 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-006-9016-9

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