Life satisfaction and mental health from age 17 to 21 years in a general population sample.
Life satisfaction and mental health from age 17 to 21 years in a general population sample.
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DOI：
10.1007/s12144-022-03685-9
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发表时间：
2022-10-07
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Knies, Gundi
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作者：
Marquez, Jose;Katsantonis, Ioannis;Sellers, Ruth;Knies, Gundi
青春期是心理健康（MH）和幸福感开始恶化的时期，这就提出了这两种现象如何联系的问题，以及一种现象的恶化是否可以用来标记另一种现象的问题发展。虽然研究表明，幸福感和MH是相关的，但这种关联的方向并不明确，而且可能有助于解开因果关系的纵向分析也很少。此外，很少有研究调查MH与生命早期幸福感之间的方向关系。在成年期初，有证据表明相互关联，没有性别差异，而在青春期早期和中期，结果是混合的，不同性别的差异。因此，我们调查了MH和幸福感之间的关系，以及性别在从青春期中期到成年期的关键发展过渡中的调节作用。我们进行了交叉滞后的纵向数据分析，从6个伪队列的汇总样本，包括来自661名年轻人谁参加了英国家庭纵向研究在17岁，19岁和21岁的信息。使用7分的整体生活满意度（LS）量表作为幸福指数，使用12项一般健康问卷作为MH的衡量标准，我们发现在17-19岁的过渡期LS和MH之间没有关联，在19-21岁的过渡期有双向关联。在这两个过渡期内，没有实质性的性别差异。我们的结论是，LS和MH预测对方在从青春期后期（19岁）到成年期（21岁）的男性和女性的过渡。
Adolescence is a period when both mental health (MH) and wellbeing start deteriorating, which raises the question of how the two phenomena are linked and whether deterioration in one might be used to flag problematic developments in the other. While research shows that wellbeing and MH are associated, the direction of the association is not clear and longitudinal analyses, that might help disentangle the cause and effect, are scarce. Moreover, few studies have investigated the directional relation between MH and wellbeing early in the life course. In emerging adulthood, evidence indicates reciprocal associations and no gender differences, whereas, in early and middle adolescence, results are mixed and differ across gender. Thus, we investigated the relationship between MH and wellbeing and the moderating effect of gender in the crucial developmental transition from middle adolescence to emerging adulthood. We undertake a cross-lagged longitudinal data analysis from a pooled sample of six pseudo-cohorts, including information from 661 young people who participated in the UK Household Longitudinal Study at ages 17, 19, and 21. Using a 7-points overall life satisfaction (LS) scale as an index of wellbeing and the 12-item General Health Questionnaire as a measure of MH, we found no associations between LS and MH in the 17–19 transition and bidirectional associations in the 19–21 transition. There were no substantial gender differences in either transition. We conclude that LS and MH predict each other in the transition from late adolescence (age 19) to emerging adulthood (age 21) for both males and females.