Although life satisfaction has been associated with maladjustment and adverse experiences among adolescents, few validated measures of life satisfaction have been evaluated for use with diverse populations. The Brief Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS) is a promising measure that has been validated in samples of White and Black adolescents. This study used an item response theory approach to evaluate its psychometric properties in a diverse rural sample of early adolescents and its concurrent associations with other measures of youth adjustment. Support was found for partial invariance across sex and racial and ethnic identities. Scores on the BMSLSS were also correlated with measures of youth adjustment. However, the strength of these correlations differed for adolescents of different racial and ethnic identities. Findings suggest that the BMSLSS is a psychometrically sound measure for assessing life satisfaction in diverse samples of adolescents and highlights the importance of assessing invariance across racial and ethnic groups.

尽管生活满意度与青少年的适应不良和不良经历有关，但很少有经过验证的生活满意度衡量指标被评估用于不同人群。简短的多维学生生活满意度量表 (BMSLSS) 是一种很有前途的衡量标准，已在白人和黑人青少年的样本中得到验证。本研究使用项目反应理论方法来评估其在不同农村早期青少年样本中的心理测量特性及其与其他青年调整措施的同时关联。发现支持跨性别、种族和民族身份的部分不变性。BMSLSS 的分数也与青年适应的措施相关。然而，这些相关性的强度对于不同种族和民族身份的青少年来说是不同的。