Ilja C W Arts, Matty P Weijenberg
New training tools for new epidemiologists
Environmental and molecular mutagenesis
recent studies life satisfaction children young people investigated association vulnerability discrimination individuals school environment network relationships mental health growing interest area demands instruments good psychometric properties aim study study psychometric properties multidimensional life satisfaction scale children mlssc participants 379 elementary schoolchildren aged 9 14 105 years enrolled public schools city state paulo brazil instruments used mlssc selfdescription assessment questionnaire 1 sdq1 social skills rating system ssrs childhood stress scale css two data collections made one fifth year elementary school one sixth confirmatory factor analysis cfa carried assess structural models goodness fit internal consistency cronbachs alpha composite reliability testretest reliability discriminant convergent divergent validity also assessed regarding cfa removing items saturation values 50 six dimensions proposed authors remained five alpha values 70 construct validity confirmed finding moderate positive correlations life satisfaction selfconcept social skills convergent validity lower negative correlation childhood stress divergent validity together reported results provide preliminary evidence reliability validity scale suggested therefore scale suitable research practice brazilian schoolchildren