Life Satisfaction of Gifted and Average Adolescents in Hong Kong: Validation of the Chinese Brief Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS)

Lue Fang (), Mantak Yuen (), Eric Fung, Jiahong Zhang, Serene Chan and Florence Wu
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Lue Fang: National University of Singapore
Mantak Yuen: The University of Hong Kong
Eric Fung: Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education
Jiahong Zhang: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Serene Chan: The University of Hong Kong
Florence Wu: The University of Hong Kong

Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2022, vol. 17, issue 2, No 15, 761 pages

Abstract: Abstract Despite the popularity of the Brief Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS) for use in research, this instrument has not yet been validated with adolescents of different intellectual ability levels and across different cultures. This study examined the psychometric properties and measurement equivalence of BMSLSS with a sample of 676 Chinese adolescents who are deemed ‘gifted’ and attending the Hong Kong Academy of Gifted Education, and 702 students with average achievement in mainstream high schools. Results indicated high internal consistency for the scale and a one-factor solution for BMSLSS with this population. Tests of configural, full metric and partial scalar invariance suggest that gifted students attending an academy conceptualize life satisfaction in a same way as their average attainment peers in regular schools. The findings support the applicability and measurement equivalence of BMSLSS for use with Chinese gifted and average-ability students.

Keywords: BMSLSS; Chinese; Life satisfaction; Gifted students; Adolescents; Validity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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