We divided the sample into two age groups4 (emerging adults: age 18–25, N = 221; adults: age 26–48, N = 99). We found no differences in self-compassion, hope and life satisfaction between two age groups. Multi-group analysis was performed to test whether the structural models differ across age groups. The result showed non-significant chi-square differences between the first model, which allows the paths to vary across age groups, and the second model, which constrains the structural paths across age groups to be equal (Δχ2 (3) = 0.58, p = .90). Further inspection of each path coefficient confirmed that all the paths did not differ across age groups.