ABBREVIATED QUALITY OF LIFE ENJOYMENT
AND SATISFACTION QUESTIONNAIRE
This questionnaire is designed to help assess the
degree of enjoyment and satisfaction experienced during
the past week.
1/C0Not at all or never; 2 /C0Rarely; 3 /C0Sometimes;
4/C0Often or most of the time; 5 /C0Frequently or all
the time
During the past week how much of the time have you:
1.Felt in at least very good physical health?
2.Been free of worry about your physical health?
3.Felt good physically?
4.Felt full of pep and vitality?
5.Felt satisfied with your life?
6.Felt happy or cheerful?
7.Felt able to communicate with others?
8.Felt able to travel about to get things done when
needed (walk, use car, bus, train, or whatever is
available as needed)?
9.Felt able to take care of yourself?
The following questions refer to leisure time
activities such as watching T.V., reading the paper
or magazines, tending house plants or gardening,
hobbies, going to museums or the movies, or to
sports events, sports, etc.:
10.How often did you enjoy leisure time activities?
11.How often did you concentrate on the leisure
activities and pay attention to them?
12.If a problem arose in your leisure activities, how often
did you solve it or deal with it without undue stress?During the past week how often have you:
13.Looked forward to getting together with friends or
relatives?
14.Enjoyed talking with co-workers or neighbors?
15.Felt affection toward one or more people?
16.Joked or laughed with other people?
17.Felt you met the needs of friends or relatives?
Taking everything into consideration, during the
past week how satisfied have you been with your ...
18.Medication? (if not taking any check here __ and
leave item blank)
19.*Social relationships?
20.*Ability to function in daily life?
21.*Economic status?
22.*Overall sense of well being?
23.*How would you rate your overall life satisfaction
and contentment during the past week?
Notes : Domains: Physical health (items 1 /C04), subjective
feelings (items 5 /C09), leisure time activity (items 10 /C012),
social relationships (items 13 /C017), satisfaction with med-
ication (item 18), general activities (items 19 /C022), life sat-
isfaction (item 23). Domain score is average of scores of
all items in that domain.
*Final Q-LES-Q-18 version does not include last 5 items
(19/C023). General Quality of Life Index 5average of
scores of all 18 items.
Reproduced with permission.
Life Satisfaction Index for the Third Age (LSITA)
(Barrett & Murk, 2006 )
Variable
Barrett and Murk (2006) aimed at measuring the life satisfaction of older people referring to individuals’ eva-
luations of their general feelings of well-being to identify ‘successful’ aging. They defined life satisfaction as a
latent construct consisting of five major components: (a) z est vs. empathy (i.e., enthusiasm of response to life in
general, independent of type of activity); (b) resolution and fortitude (i.e., active acceptance of personal responsibil-
ity for one’s own life); (c) congruence between desired and achieved goals (i.e., believing that major goals have been
achieved); (d) self-concept (i.e., being concerned with one’s appearance, judging oneself as wise and competent,
and not feeling old); and (e) mood tone (i.e., positive affective responses, like happiness and optimism).
Description
The LSITA is a 35-item self-rating questionnaire (zest vs. apathy: 7 items; resolution and fortitude: 9 items;
congruence of goals: 5 items; self-concept: 5 items; mood tone: 9 items) utilizing a 6-point Likert-type response
format (ranging from 1 5strongly disagree to 65strongly agree ). Twenty of the LSITA items were derived from an
earlier measure of life satisfaction in older people ( Life Satisfaction Index , LSI; Neugarten, Havighurst, & Tobin
1961). Additionally, Barrett and Murk expanded the former LSI to include 15 new items that reflected each of the118 5. MEASURES OF LIFE SATISFACTION ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
II. EMOTIONAL DISPOSITIONS