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Psychometric Properties Of The Satisfaction With Life Scale Among Arab Americans, Afnan Musaitif
Psychometric Properties Of The Satisfaction With Life Scale Among Arab Americans, Afnan Musaitif
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The body of literature on the Arab American population is growing both in breadth and depth. A biopsychosocial perspective has been applied in a review of the research on this population revealing gaps in the area of well-being among Arab Americans. Particularly, few studies have investigated well-being as defined by positive constructs, positive psychology, subjective well-being, or psychological wellbeing. More specifically, measures of these conceptualizations of well-being beyond the deficit model have not been validated among Arab Americans. This study aims to investigate the psychometric properties of one of the most commonly used subjective well-being instruments, the Satisfaction With Life …