Youth Life Satisfaction: A Review of the Literature

By Carmel Proctor, P. Alex Linley, John Maltby. 2009

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Career Decision-Making Difficulties and Life Satisfaction: The Role of Career-Related Parental Behaviors and Career Adaptability (2021, background): “As already said, personality traits have been confirmed as antecedents of CDD (Di Fabio et al., 2015; Marcionetti & Rossier, 2016b; Martincin & Stead, 2015) and life satisfaction (DeNeve & Cooper, 1998; Proctor et al., 2009; Steel et al., 2008) in several studies.”
Youth life satisfaction measures: a review (2009, methodology): “…has provided researchers with useful insights into how youths perceive their lives, and associations between LS and various psychological, social, behavioral, environmental, and educational variables have demonstrated LS to be a key indicator of well-being (see Proctor et al., 2008, for a review).”
The Longitudinal Relationship Between School Belonging and Subjective Well-Being in School Among Elementary School Students (2015, background): “…suggests that the research has mainly focused on adolescents (Bird and Markle 2012; Long et.al 2012; Casas et al. 2013; McNeely et al. 2002; Niehaus et al. 2012), with considerably less attention given to the younger age groups, such as students in elementary school (Proctor et al. 2009).”
Age and Gender Differences in the Relation Between School-Related Social Support and Subjective Well-Being in School Among Students (2015, background): “2013, 2014a; Tian and Liu 2007), with considerably less focus on younger age groups, such as elementary school students (Proctor et al. 2009).”
Perceived social support and self-esteem as mediators of the relationship between parental attachment and life satisfaction among Chinese adolescents (2017, background): “Social support also has been found to have a positive impact on adolescents' LS (Danielsen, Samdal, Hetland, & Wold, 2009; Proctor et al., 2009; Siddall, Huebner, & Jiang, 2013).”
Very Happy Youths: Benefits of Very High Life Satisfaction Among Adolescents (2010, background): “Throughout the research literature, scores on measures of life satisfaction are used as an indication of happiness or unhappiness (Proctor et al. 2009).”
Early adolescents’ personality and life satisfaction: A closer look at global vs. domain-specific satisfaction (2015, result): “…the Big Five traits and early adolescents’ domain-free, global LS. Based on previous findings in adult (e.g., DeNeve & Cooper, 1998) and youth samples (e.g., Proctor et al., 2009), we hypothesized that neuroticism would be substantially negatively correlated with early adolescents’ global LS.”
Affective mediators of the influence of neuroticism and resilience on life satisfaction (2012, background): “For example, people who are higher in global life satisfaction achieve better life outcomes, including financial success, academic achievement, self-esteem, self-efficacy, mental health, supportive relationships, effective coping, and even physical health and longevity (Gilman & Huebner, 2006; Proct”
Autonomy support and achievement goals as predictors of perceived school performance and life satisfaction in the transition between lower and upper secondary school (2014, background): “However, findings indicate that different age groups all report positive levels of global and domain-specific life satisfaction, with little practical significance of demographic variables such as gender and socioeconomic status (Huebner et al. 2005; Proctor et al. 2009).”
Strengths Gym: The impact of a character strengths-based intervention on the life satisfaction and well-being of adolescents (2011, background): “In general, positive evaluations of life satisfaction are linked with positive functioning, whereas negative evaluations of life satisfaction are associated with depression and negative functioning (see Proctor et al, 2009b for a review).”
All you need is love? Strengths mediate the negative associations between attachment orientations and life satisfaction (2011, background): “Such individual differences were related to age, gender, and ethnicity (Dolan et al., 2008; Proctor et al., 2009), but also to personality factors.”