Characteristics of adolescents who report very high life satisfaction
Characteristics of adolescents who report very high life satisfaction
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DOI：
10.1007/s10964-006-9036-7
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发表时间：
2006-06-01
影响因子：
4.9
通讯作者：
Huebner, E. Scott
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作者：
Gilman, Rich;Huebner, E. Scott
本研究调查了青少年谁报告高水平的生活总体满意度的特点。共有485名青少年完成了学生生活满意度量表（SLSS）（Huebner，E。S.（1991年）。《心理学国际》12：231-240）沿着自我报告的自我、人际和学校相关功能的测量。根据他们的SLSS分数，学生被分为三组：“低”（分布的底部20%），“平均”（中间50%）和“高”（上20%）。高满意度组的青年在所有因变量上的适应功能都比低满意度组的青年高。相对于平均生活满意度的学生，生活满意度高的学生在社会压力测量，对教师的态度测量和自我功能的所有测量上得分上级。此外，高生活满意度组中没有青少年表现出临床水平的心理症状，而平均组的7%和低满意度组的42%报告了临床水平的症状。总的来说，研究结果表明，高生活满意度与一些心理健康益处有关，而这些益处在报告相对较低满意度的年轻人中没有发现。
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.