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Trajectories of adolescent life satisfaction
Increasing global policy interest in measuring and improving population wellbeing has prompted academic investigations into the dynamics of lifespan life satisfaction. Yet little research has assessed the complete adolescent age range, although it harbours developmental changes that could affect wel...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9346371/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35937913 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211808 |
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author | Orben, Amy Lucas, Richard E. Fuhrmann, Delia Kievit, Rogier A. |
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description | Increasing global policy interest in measuring and improving population wellbeing has prompted academic investigations into the dynamics of lifespan life satisfaction. Yet little research has assessed the complete adolescent age range, although it harbours developmental changes that could affect wellbeing far into adulthood. This study investigates how life satisfaction develops throughout the whole of adolescence, and compares this development to that in adulthood, by applying exploratory and confirmatory latent growth curve modelling to UK and German data, respectively (37 076 participants, 10–24 years). We find a near universal decrease in life satisfaction during adolescence. This decrease is steeper than at any other point across adulthood. Further, our findings suggest that adolescent girls' life satisfaction is lower than boys’, but that this difference does not extend into adulthood. The study highlights the importance of studying adolescent subjective wellbeing trajectories to inform research, policy and practice. |
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spelling | pubmed-93463712022-08-05 Trajectories of adolescent life satisfaction Orben, Amy Lucas, Richard E. Fuhrmann, Delia Kievit, Rogier A. R Soc Open Sci Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Increasing global policy interest in measuring and improving population wellbeing has prompted academic investigations into the dynamics of lifespan life satisfaction. Yet little research has assessed the complete adolescent age range, although it harbours developmental changes that could affect wellbeing far into adulthood. This study investigates how life satisfaction develops throughout the whole of adolescence, and compares this development to that in adulthood, by applying exploratory and confirmatory latent growth curve modelling to UK and German data, respectively (37 076 participants, 10–24 years). We find a near universal decrease in life satisfaction during adolescence. This decrease is steeper than at any other point across adulthood. Further, our findings suggest that adolescent girls' life satisfaction is lower than boys’, but that this difference does not extend into adulthood. The study highlights the importance of studying adolescent subjective wellbeing trajectories to inform research, policy and practice. The Royal Society 2022-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9346371/ /pubmed/35937913 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211808 Text en © 2022 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Orben, Amy Lucas, Richard E. Fuhrmann, Delia Kievit, Rogier A. Trajectories of adolescent life satisfaction |
title | Trajectories of adolescent life satisfaction |
title_full | Trajectories of adolescent life satisfaction |
title_fullStr | Trajectories of adolescent life satisfaction |
title_full_unstemmed | Trajectories of adolescent life satisfaction |
title_short | Trajectories of adolescent life satisfaction |
title_sort | trajectories of adolescent life satisfaction |
topic | Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9346371/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35937913 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211808 |
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