The LIVES Daily Hassles Scale and Its Relation to Life Satisfaction. (March 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Udayar, Shagini; Urbanaviciute, Ieva; Morselli, Davide; Bollmann, Grégoire; Rossier, Jérome; Spini, Dario
• Is Part Of: Assessment. Volume 30:Number 2(2023)
• Page Start: 348
• Page End: 363
• Publication Date: 2023-03
• Subjects: daily hassles -- LIVES Daily Hassles Scale -- life satisfaction -- scale development; Psychological tests -- Periodicals; Psychodiagnostics -- Periodicals; Personality tests -- Periodicals; 150.287
• DOI: 10.1177/10731911211047894
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1073-1911

Abstract

Although daily hassles have been of interest since the 1980s, only a few tools have been developed to assess them. Most of them are checklists or open-ended questions that are demanding for participants in panel surveys. Therefore, to facilitate daily hassles integration into large surveys, the aim of this study was to present a new tool assessing daily hassles, the LIVES–Daily Hassles Scale (LIVES-DHS), and to examine its relation to life satisfaction, in a sample of 1, 170 French- and German-speaking adults living in Switzerland. In a first random subsample, we conducted a principal axis factor analysis, and the results suggested a five-factor solution. Furthermore, we conducted a confirmatory factor analysis on a second random subsample, and it supported the hierarchical factor structure of the scale. The LIVES-DHS consists of 18 items represented by five factors that describe five sources of daily hassles: financial, physical, relational, environmental, and professional. The bivariate correlations showed that the LIVES-DHS could differentiate the concept of daily hassles from associated concepts. Finally, the hierarchical regression showed that daily hassles negatively predicted life satisfaction and added a significant incremental variance beyond that accounted for by age, gender, household income, education level, and personality traits.