The Life Satisfaction Scale for Apostolic Women Religious can assist women religious congregations who seek a transformative and vivacious future

ABSTRACT

The Life Satisfaction Scale for Apostolic Women Religious (LSSAWR) is a well-established instrument with demonstrated psychometrics properties. This study examined the individual item-level ratings averaged across generational cohorts within an international sample of Roman Catholic Sisters. The purpose was to identify areas of potential differences in overall life satisfaction or individual domain scores. In general, average item-level ratings tended to decrease as the generational cohort became younger. Interestingly, some noteworthy exceptions were observed among the item-level ratings within the four subscales of the LSSAWR. The results are informative for women religious congregations, who seek transformation and a vivacious future.

KEYWORDS:

• Life satisfaction
• Roman Catholic apostolic women religious
• generation cohorts
• international sample
• item level analyses
• transformation

Acknowledgments

The Life Satisfaction Scale for Apostolic Women Religious (LSSAWR) was designed by Maria Clara Kreis, CDP, Ph.D., as she met the requirements of her doctoral studies at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. The data used in this publication was collected as a part of designing a Manual and extending the LSSAWR to younger cohorts, and to Spanish and German speaking women religious worldwide (Kreis et al., 2018, 2019a, 2019b). At the time, the International LSSAWR Project was supported by Duquesne University and generously grant funded by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation [G1600019].