An examination of culture and gender differences on the Love of Life Scale (LLS) and its psychometric properties

IF 1.3 Q3 PSYCHIATRY

Mental Health Religion & Culture Pub Date : 2022-08-26 DOI:10.1080/13674676.2022.2034772

A. Abdel-Khalek, D. Lester, M. Dadfar, M. K. Atef Vahid, Mayssah El Nayal, Amthal H. Alhuwailah, Fares Zine El Abiddine, A. P. Singh, Y. Turan

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The present research studied 2570 college students from seven countries: Egypt, Algeria, Kuwait, Lebanon, Iran, India and Turkey. The aims were: (a) to compare love of life mean scores between the seven samples, (b) to examine sex-related differences in love of life, and (c) to explore the principal components of the Love of Life Scale (LLS). The highest mean total LLS scores were for Kuwait, India, and Iran students, respectively. All countries differed significantly from one another, except Algeria versus Lebanon and India versus Iran. Higher mean LLS scores for women were found for each country. Cronbach alpha for the LLS was .93. A principal component analysis extracted from one to four components for individual countries, but one component was extracted for the total sample and labelled: Positive attitude towards life and Meaningfulness of life. The love of Life concept may be considered to be an important concept in positive psychology.

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热爱生活量表(LLS)的文化和性别差异及其心理测量特性的检验

本研究对来自埃及、阿尔及利亚、科威特、黎巴嫩、伊朗、印度和土耳其7个国家的2570名大学生进行了调查。目的是:(a)比较七个样本的生活热爱平均得分，(b)检查生活热爱的性别相关差异，以及(c)探索生活热爱量表(LLS)的主成分。平均总LLS分数最高的分别是科威特、印度和伊朗学生。除了阿尔及利亚与黎巴嫩、印度与伊朗之外，所有国家之间的差异都很大。每个国家的女性平均LLS分数都较高。LLS的Cronbach alpha值为0.93。主成分分析从单个国家的一到四个成分中提取，但从总样本中提取一个成分，并标记为:对生活的积极态度和生活的意义。生命之爱的概念可以被认为是积极心理学中的一个重要概念。

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