Characteristics of Adolescents Who Report Very High Life Satisfaction

Autor/inn/en	Gilman, Rich; Huebner, E. Scott
Titel	Characteristics of Adolescents Who Report Very High Life Satisfaction
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35 (2006) 3, S.293-301 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2891
DOI	10.1007/s10964-006-9036-7
Schlagwörter	Individual Characteristics; Adolescents; Life Satisfaction; Adjustment (to Environment); Measures (Individuals); Anxiety; Well Being; Measurement Techniques; Mental Health; Interpersonal Relationship; Scores; Social Influences; Student Attitudes; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Psychological Patterns; Stress Variables + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Lebensvollendung; Messdaten; Angst; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Messtechnik; Psychohygiene; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Sozialer Einfluss; Schülerverhalten; Psychiatrische Symptomatik
Abstract	This study investigated the characteristics of adolescents who report high levels of life global satisfaction. A total of 485 adolescents completed the "Students' Life Satisfaction Scale" (SLSS) (Huebner, E. S. (1991). "Sch. Psychol. Int." 12: 231-240.) along with self-report measures of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and school-related functioning. Based on their SLSS scores, students were divided into three groups: "low" (bottom 20% of the distribution), "average" (middle 50%), and "high" (upper 20%). Youth in the high satisfaction group reported significantly higher adaptive functioning on all dependent variables than youth in the low satisfaction group. Relative to students with average life satisfaction, students with high life satisfaction reported superior scores on a measure of social stress, a measure of attitudes toward teachers, and on all measures of intrapersonal functioning. Also, no adolescents in the high life satisfaction group demonstrated clinical levels of psychological symptoms, whereas 7% of the average group and 42% of the low satisfaction group reported clinical levels of symptoms. Taken together, the findings suggested that high life satisfaction is associated with some mental health benefits that are not found among youth reporting comparatively lower satisfaction levels. (Author).
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