Life events, self-concept, and adolescents' positive subjective well-being

McCullough, Gable; Huebner, E. Scott; Laughlin, James E.

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“…Future research should also investigate the impact of baseline stress on young people's life satisfaction. Although there has been an interest in the role minor stressors (such as daily hassles, social conflicts, or poor exam performance) play in life satisfaction (Ash and Huebner 2001;McCullough et al 2000), much less is known on the impact of baseline stress on young people's life satisfaction (McNamara 2000).…”

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“…In particular, research suggests that stressful life events explain variance in adolescents' life satisfaction over and above intrapersonal variables such as self-concept and internal locus of control (McCullough et al 2000). However, the ways in which adolescents evaluate stressful life events can vary across individuals.…”

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The Role of Perceived Stress and Self-Efficacy in Young People’s Life Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Study

Burger

Samuel

2016

J Youth Adolescence

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Life satisfaction is an important indicator of successful development. However, adolescents' life satisfaction tends to be relatively unsteady, and environmental influences play a critical role in shaping life satisfaction among adolescents in the transition to young adulthood. Given the paramount importance that education plays in adolescents' lives, adolescents' life satisfaction may vary as a function of school-related stress experience. At the same time, coping resources may help reduce adverse effects of stress on life satisfaction. With this in mind, we examined whether, and to what extent, perceived stress in education and general self-efficacy (a resource that facilitates coping) affect the life satisfaction of adolescents in transition to young adulthood. We distinguished between baseline levels of stress and self-efficacy and within-person change in stress and self-efficacy to determine whether life satisfaction is sensitive to fluctuations in stress and self-efficacy when person-specific levels of stress and self-efficacy are taken into account. Estimating growth curve models on data from a panel study on the life trajectories of compulsory-school leavers (n = 5,126, 55.3% female), we found that baseline levels of stress and self-efficacy, as well as within-person change in stress and self-efficacy, affected adolescents' life satisfaction.Moreover, our results showed that baseline self-efficacy mitigated the negative effect of baseline stress on life satisfaction. These findings improve our understanding of two major psychological determinants of adolescents' life satisfaction and extend our knowledge of life satisfaction trajectories during the transition to young adulthood.

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The Role of Perceived Stress and Self-Efficacy in Young People’s Life Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Study

Burger

Samuel

2016

J Youth Adolescence

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104

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“…daily hassles, everyday stressors) in changes in SWB, and LS particularly. For example, McCullough et al (2000) found that minor daily events (e.g. fights with friends, doing poorly on an exam, enjoying a hobby, helping other people) contributed unique variance over and above that of major life events (e.g.…”

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Youth Life Satisfaction: A Review of the Literature

2008

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A central construct within the positive psychology literature is life satisfaction. Whereas adult life satisfaction has been studied extensively, the life satisfaction of children and adolescents has only received attention more recently. This article provides a review of the extant research on youth life satisfaction. Empirical studies (n = 141) on life satisfaction among youth are reviewed. The review details how life satisfaction among youth relates to various other important emotional, social, and behavioural constructs. Evidenced by the review are the conditions that foster positive life satisfaction and the implications of positive life satisfaction among youth. Future directions in life satisfaction research among youth are briefly discussed.Keywords Life satisfaction Á Adolescent Á Children Á Subjective well-being Á Happiness Á Review Recently the burgeoning field of positive psychology has re-illuminated the need for psychology to address areas associated with optimal functioning and happiness. From the time of Aristotle (1925), the pursuit of happiness and the achievement of the 'good life' has been a major concern among philosophers and theologians, and was included as a foundational mission of psychology (Seligman 2002b;Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi 2000). Within the field of psychology the study of 'happiness' generally falls under investigations of subjective well-being (SWB) (see Diener 1984;Diener 1994;Diener et al. 1999, for reviews). The SWB construct is a tripartite category of phenomena, which includes: emotional responses (i.e. positive affect (e.g. joy, optimism) and negative affect (e.g. sadness, anger)), domain satisfactions (e.g. work satisfaction, relationship satisfaction), and global judgements of life satisfaction (LS) (Diener et al. 1999). In the research literature the components of SWB are often used interchangeably with each other and considered synonymous with term 'happiness' (Diener 1994;Seligman 2002a); despite that the term

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“…For instance, Diener and colleagues (Diener, Suh, Lucas & Smith, 1999) analysed demographic factors and resources influencing subjective well-being. Their results point to a large role played by life events, both major and daily events (McCullough, Huebner, & Laughlin, 2000). Since conflicts with parents are a big part of their everyday life, can be resolved in different ways, and have different outcomes, a question arises: what do such conflicts mean for adolescent well-being?…”

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Conflict styles and outcomes in parent-adolescent relationship and adolescent family satisfaction

Lachowska¹

2016

Polish Journal of Applied Psychology

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Conflict styles and outcomes in parent-adolescent relationship and adolescent family satisfaction Streszczenie W artykule określono znaczenie konfliktów w relacji między adolescentami i ich rodzicami dla satysfakcji adolescentów z życia rodzinnego. Stwierdzono pozytywny związek satysfakcji z dążeniem rodziców do kompromisu oraz negatywny -z agresją rodziców. Satysfakcja adolescentów jest tym większa, im częściej konflikty z ojcem kończą się poprawą relacji (intymność) a im rzadziej konflikty z matką kończą się ich eskalacją i frustracją. Potwierdzono istotną rolę zachowania każdego z rodziców w sytuacji konfliktu z adolescentem, jednakże najsilniejszym predyktorem satysfakcji adolescentów jest dążenie ojca do kompromisu. Zgodnie z hipotezą emocjonalnego dystansowania się Steinberga, wraz z wiekiem adolescenta zmniejsza się jego satysfakcja z rodziny a coraz częściej dochodzi do eskalacji konfliktów i narastania frustracji w relacji z matką.Słowa kluczowe adolescencja, satysfakcja z życia rodziny, style rozwiązywania konfliktu, rezultaty konfliktów AbstractIn my article I identified the meaning of conflict in parent-adolescent relationship for adolescent family satisfaction. It was found that family satisfaction is positively related to seeking compromise by the parents, as well as being negatively related to parental aggression. Adolescent satisfaction is higher when conflicts with the father more often result in improving their relationship (intimacy), and when conflicts with the mother end less frequently with escalation and frustration. A significant parental behavioral role in conflict with the adolescent was confirmed; however, the strongest predictor of adolescent family satisfaction is in seeking compromise by the father. In accordance with Steinberg's emotional distancing hypothesis, with the adolescent's age family satisfaction was found to decrease, and conflicts escalated and frustration in mother-adolescent relationship increased.

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Life events, self-concept, and adolescents' positive subjective well-being

Cited by 251 publications

References 35 publications

The Role of Perceived Stress and Self-Efficacy in Young People’s Life Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Study

The Role of Perceived Stress and Self-Efficacy in Young People’s Life Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Study

Youth Life Satisfaction: A Review of the Literature

Conflict styles and outcomes in parent-adolescent relationship and adolescent family satisfaction

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