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What Aspects are Important to Adolescents to Achieve Full Satisfaction in Life?

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This study aims to add new knowledge about what aspects adolescents between 11 and 16 years old consider important to achieve full satisfaction in life (AFSL) and to explore the relationship between these aspects, sociodemographic variables and subjective and psychological well-being indicators. The sample is comprised of 763 secondary school pupils from Girona province (north-eastern Spain) who were subject to five psychometric instruments for measuring subjective well-being, one instrument for measuring psychological well-being and the list of aspects that they consider important to achieve full satisfaction in life (AFSLs: Casas et al. 2013). Being happy, having a good time, experiencing new things and feeling that I make other people happy are the AFSLs that score highest across all age groups. The OLS (Campbell et al. 1976) is the subjective well-being indicator that correlates with the most AFSLs. Appreciating the small things in life is an AFSL that contributes to explaining the well-being measured with all the psychometric instruments used and feeling that you are a fair and honest person contributes to explaining all of them except the OLS.

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The data used comes from the R + D Evolución del bienestar personal entre los 10-15 años (Reference: PSI2010-19404) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. We would also like to express our gratitude to this ministry for the funding they provided to the first author through the FPI predoctoral grant (Reference: BES-2014-067685). Particular thanks are due to Sarah Davies for editing English.

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Crous, G., Casas, F. & González-Carrasco, M. What Aspects are Important to Adolescents to Achieve Full Satisfaction in Life?. Child Ind Res 11, 1699–1718 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-018-9535-6

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