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Child and Adolescent Life Satisfaction

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Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research

Synonyms

Adolescent well-being; Child well-being; Life satisfaction of adolescents; Life satisfaction of children; Life satisfaction of youth; Youth well-being

Definition

Life satisfaction is the cognitive evaluation of quality of life as a whole. The construct was defined by Shin and Johnson (1978) as “a global assessment of a person’s quality of life according to his chosen criteria” (p. 478).

Description

According to Andrews and Withey (1976), positive affect (PA), negative affect (NA), and life satisfaction (LS) make up the three separable components of subjective well-being (SWB). The first two components (PA, NA) refer to the emotional or affective aspects, whereas LS refers to the cognitive-judgmental aspects (Diener, 1984). The affective components of SWB are based on the short-lived and fluctuating emotional responses that are representative of the nature of everyday life (Gilman, Huebner, & Laughlin, 2000), whereas LS is based on overall cognitive appraisals of quality of...

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Proctor, C. (2014). Child and Adolescent Life Satisfaction. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_3844

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