School: One world or two worlds? Children's perspectives

Previous analyses conducted by different authors in several countries were replicated by means of multiple regression analysis in order to explore which items could be better used to test models which alternatively use one or two latent variables. Different options were considered and analysed using Structural Equations Modelling (SEM) to estimate the most appropriate model for a cross-country comparison of school satisfaction as a component of SWB. Multi-group SEM was used on six items regarding school-related satisfaction, related alternatively to one and two latent variables. We propose a multi-group model with two latent variables for school-related satisfaction related to the SLSS and OLS for the purposes of cross-cultural comparison; the model displays excellent fit indexes.