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Description: 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 1170 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 confirmed the hierarchical factor structure of this scale. LIVES-DHS consists of 18 items represented by 5 factors that describe five sources of daily hassles: financial, physical, relational, environmental, and professional. The bivariate correlations showed that 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.