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

This paper examines the relationships among life satisfaction, positive youth development, and problem behaviour. A total of 7,975 Secondary One students (4,169 boys and 3,387 girls; with most aged 12) of Chinese ethnicity recruited from 48 schools responded tovalidated measures of life satisfaction...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Social indicators research 2010-02, Vol.95 (3), p.455-474
Hauptverfasser:	Sun, Rachel C. F., Shek, Daniel T. L.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Addictive behaviors Adolescent Development Adolescents Adults Alcohol Abuse At Risk Persons Attitudes Behavior Behavior modeling Behavior Problems Child development Cognition & reasoning Cognitive ability Correlation Delinquency Drug abuse Emotional Intelligence Ethnicity Foreign Countries Goal Orientation Hong Kong Human Geography Intention Interpersonal Competence Life Satisfaction Mental health Microeconomics Modeling Negative Reinforcement Predictive modeling Psychometrics Public Health Quality of life Quality of Life Research Racial Identification Religious Factors Schools Secondary School Students Self efficacy Self Management Social research Social Sciences Sociology Spiritual belief systems Spirituality Structural Equation Models Students Studies Substance Abuse Suicides & suicide attempts Teenagers Theoretical constructs Thinking Skills Wellbeing Youth Youth Programs
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Zusammenfassung:	This paper examines the relationships among life satisfaction, positive youth development, and problem behaviour. A total of 7,975 Secondary One students (4,169 boys and 3,387 girls; with most aged 12) of Chinese ethnicity recruited from 48 schools responded tovalidated measures of life satisfaction, positive youth development and problem behaviour. While life satisfaction was positively correlated with different measures of positiveyouth development, these measures were negatively correlated with measures of substance abuse, delinquency and intention to engage in problem behaviour. Based on a series of structural equation models, a non-recursive model was found to best fit the data, which suggests that adolescents having higher levels of positive youth development are more satisfied with life and have fewer problem behaviour, with life satisfaction and problem behaviour negatively reinforcing each other.
ISSN:	0303-8300 1573-0921
DOI:	10.1007/s11205-009-9531-9