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Article: Life satisfaction, positive youth development, and problem behaviour among Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong

TitleLife satisfaction, positive youth development, and problem behaviour among Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong
Authors
Sun, RCFShek, DTL
KeywordsAdolescents
Life satisfaction
Positive youth development
Problem behaviour
Issue Date2010
PublisherSpringer Netherlands. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0303-8300
Citation
Social Indicators Research, 2010, v. 95 n. 3, p. 455-474 How to Cite?
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-009-9531-9
AbstractThis 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 to validated measures of life satisfaction, positive youth development and problem behaviour. While life satisfaction was positively correlated with different measures of positive youth 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. © The Author(s) 2009.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/92408
ISSN
0303-8300
2023 Impact Factor: 2.8
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.965
PubMed Central ID
PMC2801834
ISI Accession Number ID
WOS:000273328900008
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dc.description.abstractThis 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 to validated measures of life satisfaction, positive youth development and problem behaviour. While life satisfaction was positively correlated with different measures of positive youth 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. © The Author(s) 2009.en_HK
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dc.subjectAdolescentsen_HK
dc.subjectLife satisfactionen_HK
dc.subjectPositive youth developmenten_HK
dc.subjectProblem behaviouren_HK
dc.titleLife satisfaction, positive youth development, and problem behaviour among Chinese adolescents in Hong Kongen_HK
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