Opportunity for Adult Bonding/Meaningful Neighborhood Roles and Life-Satisfaction among USA Middle School Students

Abstract

adolescents, bonding, life-satisfaction, meaningful roles,

Youth Developmental Assets and Perceived Life Satisfaction: Is There a Relationship?

“…Consistent with this study, Evans et al (2004) found an association for White females; however, the association was inverted, with White females who disagreed with having quality of other adult support as a youth developmental asset to be associated with increased sexual risk-taking behavior. Nevertheless, this finding is consistent with a study by Paxton et al (2006) which also demonstrated that, in addition to supportive parental relationships, supportive relationships with other adults in the community are related to many adolescents' life satisfaction.…”

Life Satisfaction, Positive Youth Development, and Problem Behaviour Among Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong

“…Since most existing studies have focused on bonding, social competence, emotional competence, behavioural competence, prosocial behaviour, and spirituality (e.g., Ciarrochi et al 2003;Laudet and White 2008;Paxton et al 2006), this study demonstrated that other positive youth development constructs, including resilience and beliefs in the future, also have significant correlations with life satisfaction. In particular, adolescents having more positive identity were more likely to have higher life satisfaction.…”

“…Among these positive youth development constructs, many were found to associate with life satisfaction: Paxton et al (2006) showed that bonding to adults and owning meaningful social roles were closely related to adolescent life satisfaction; Stein and Newcomb (1999) reported that intimate relationships formed in early adulthood contributed to life satisfaction in later adulthood; Ciarrochi et al (2003) found that social and emotional competencies were significant predictors of life satisfaction. Academic and social self-efficacy (Vecchio et al 2007), prosocial motivation and behaviour (Caprara and Steca 2005;Gebauer et al 2008), spirituality and religiosity (Laudet and White 2008;Zullig et al 2006), as well as mastery and ethnic identity (Sam 1998) were also found to be significant predictors of life satisfaction.…”

Life Satisfaction, Positive Youth Development, and Problem Behaviour Among Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong

“…Among these positive youth development constructs, many were found to associate with life satisfaction: Paxton et al (2006) showed that bonding to adults and owning meaningful social roles were closely related to adolescent life satisfaction; Stein and Newcomb (1999) reported that intimate relationships formed in early adulthood contributed to life satisfaction in later adulthood; Ciarrochi et al (2003) found that social and emotional competencies were significant predictors of life satisfaction. Academic and social self-efficacy (Vecchio et al 2007), prosocial motivation and behaviour (Caprara and Steca 2005; Gebauer et al 2008), spirituality and religiosity (Laudet and White 2008; Zullig et al 2006), as well as mastery and ethnic identity (Sam 1998) were also found to be significant predictors of life satisfaction.…”