[Article in spanish]
Blanca E. Barcelata Eguiarte and Diego J. Rivas Miranda
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Abstract
Based on the Positive Development of Youth perspective, the aim of this study was to analyse the contribution of psychological well-being and its dimensions on life satisfaction in early and middle adolescence. Participants were 572 students, aged 13 to 18 years (Mage=15.39; SD=1.90), from public high and senior-high schools in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area. The Adolescent and Family Sociodemographic Schedule, Psychological Wellbeing Scale, and Affective-Cognitive Life Evaluation Scale were administered. The adolescents studied showed values above the mean for both, psychological well-being and life satisfaction. Significant relationships between the dimensions of psychological well-being and life satisfaction were found. Self-acceptance and self-control predicted life satisfaction for both early and middle adolescents; however, positive relationships and life purpose, were predictors of life satisfaction for early adolescents, whereas future plans were a predictor for middle adolescents’ life satisfaction. These findings could help in designing programs to promote well-being and life satisfaction according to adolescent developmental stages.
Keywords: Adolescence, psychological well-being, life satisfaction, positive development of youth, students
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