The Relationship between Life Satisfaction, Social Interest, and Frequency of Extracurricular Activities among Adolescent Students

By R. Gilman. 2001

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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Impact of Adolescents' Filial Self‐Efficacy on Quality of Family Functioning and Satisfaction (2005, unknown): “Empirical findings show that adolescents who are satisfied with their family life are more prosocial and have a higher sense of self-worth (Gilman, 2001; Gilman&Huebner, 2000; Harter, 1999).”
ATTACHMENT RELATIONSHIPS AND ADOLESCENTS' LIFE SATISFACTION: SOME RELATIONSHIPS MATTER MORE TO GIRLS THAN BOYS (2008, background): “Environmental factors, such as participation in extracurricular activities (Gilman, 2001; Gilman & Huebner, 2006), neighborhood experiences (Morris & Winter, 1978), and chronic and acute life events (Ash & Huebner, 2002; McCullough, Huebner, & Laughlin, 2000) are all significant, but moderate, predi”
The educational benefits claimed for physical education and school sport: an academic review (2009, background): “Gilman (2001) claimed that those involved in sport experienced significantly more happiness or subjective well-being when compared with those not involved in such activities.”
Youth Life Satisfaction: A Review of the Literature (2009, background): “For example, Gilman (2001) found that students who either rated themselves higher in social interest, or as participating in greater numbers of structured extracurricular activities (SEAs), also reported significantly higher global LS than those who reported less social interest, and/or minimal or…”
The Role of Subjective Well-Being in Positive Youth Development (2004, background): “Participating in extracurricular activities (Gilman 2001) and engaging in meaningful and challenging activities such as helping others and working for groups or organizations (Maton 1990; Wong and Csikszentmihalyi 1991) are associated with higher life satisfaction among youth.”
Characteristics of Adolescents Who Report Very High Life Satisfaction (2006, result): “The total number (678), and the median number of SEAs (3.00, SD = 2.33) was consistent with previous research ( Gilman, 2001 ).”
More gratitude, less materialism: The mediating role of life satisfaction (2009, background): “Besides contributing to one's life satisfaction by enhancing one's psychological well-being, gratitude has been shown to benefit relationships, which is related to enhanced life satisfaction (eg, Gilman, 2004 ).”
The Role of School-Based Extracurricular Activities in Adolescent Development: A Comprehensive Review and Future Directions (2005, background): “Parents’ own involvement in community activities is a strong predictor of their adolescents’ involvement in school- or community-based extracurricular activities (G. H. Elder & Conger, 2000; Fletcher & Shaw, 2000; Larson, Dworkin, & Gilman, 2001).”
Sense of Belonging and Life Satisfaction among Hong Kong Adolescent Immigrants in Canada (2007, background): “…literature on socio-cultural and educational adaptation of immigrants, positive experience in making friends with members of the host society (Chow 2005; Gilman 2001) and satisfactory academic experience (Leung 2001; Lopez et al. 2002) were found to be positively related to both outcome variables.”
The Occupation of Leisure: Three Typologies and Their Influence on Mental Health in Adolescence (2003, background): “Evidence for the role of achievement and social leisure in enhancing mental health is empirically derived in this study, and is supported by Gilman (2001), who surveyed 321 adolescents and found those participating in high levels of structured extracurricular activities (e.”
Students Who Like and Dislike School (2007, result): “As shown in Table 1, all scores were comparable to what has been reported in previous studies (e.g., ( Gilman, 2001; Huebner, 2000; Snyder et al. 1997)).”
Extracurricular School Activities: The Good, the Bad, and the Nonlinear (2002, background): “For example, high school ESAs were associated with higher school satisfaction (Gilman, 2001); higher internal locus of control (indicating that students felt more in control of their lives); higher social and academic self-concepts; and higher educational and occupational aspirations in school and…”
Psychometric properties of the youth experience survey with young athletes (2012, unknown): “For example, participation in sport has been positively associated to life satisfaction (Gilman, 2001), leadership skills (Wright & Côté, 2003), educational achievement (Eccles & Barber, 1999), character building (Bredemeier & Shields, 2006; Camiré & Trudel, 2010; Shields & Bredemeier, 1995),…”
Review of Life Satisfaction Measures for Adolescents (2000, background): “MSLSS scores have been shown to differentiate between diverse groups of students, including adolescents with emotional disturbance (Griffin & Huebner, 2000), adolescents in residential settings (Gilman & Handwerk, in press), and students of differing levels of prosocial proclivities (Gilman, 2000).”
Very Happy Youths: Benefits of Very High Life Satisfaction Among Adolescents (2010, background): “…relationship with parents and peers (e.g., Man 1991; Nickerson and Nagle 2004), participation in structured extracurricular activities (SEAs) (e.g., Gilman 2001), aspirations (e.g., Emmons 1986), and academic achievement (e.g., Gilman and Huebner 2006), and negatively correlated with…”
Impact of Family Efficacy Beliefs on Quality of Family Functioning and Satisfaction with Family Life (2011, background): “Thus, childhood satisfaction with family life promotes prosocialness and a sense of self-worth, whereas family dissatisfaction is accompanied by social and emotional problems (Gilman, 2001; Valois, Zullig, Huebner, & Drane, 2001).”