TY - JOUR
T1 - Trends in life satisfaction in European and North-American adolescents from 2002 to 2010 in over 30 countries
AU - the Positive Health Focus Group
AU - Cavallo, Franco
AU - Dalmasso, Paola
AU - Ottová-Jordan, Veronika
AU - Brooks, Fiona
AU - Mazur, Joanna
AU - Välimaa, Raili
AU - Gobina, Inese
AU - De Matos, Margarida Gaspar
AU - Raven-Sieberer, Ulrike
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/4/1
Y1 - 2015/4/1
N2 - Background: Life satisfaction (LS) is an indicator which is widely used for assessing the perception of a child's feeling about his life. Methods: LS is assessed in Health Behaviour in School-aged Children via the Cantril ladder with 10 steps indicating the worst and best possible life. This range of values (0-10) was dichotomized into 'low' (0-5) vs. 'high' (6-10). Countries, age groups and genders were compared based on the odds ratio (OR) of declaring a higher LS in 2010 with respect to 2002. Results: Analyzing the difference between 2002 and 2010, six countries from Western Europe show decreasing LS: Austria, Canada, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland and Greenland. In contrast, a group of Eastern European Countries, that is, Estonia, Croatia, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia and Ukraine, show a significant increase in LS. Data on gender and age differences confirm the lower rating of LS in girls and a decreasing rating with age. Conclusion: The LS scale appears to be a tool capable of discriminating the level of wellbeing of adolescent population among countries.
AB - Background: Life satisfaction (LS) is an indicator which is widely used for assessing the perception of a child's feeling about his life. Methods: LS is assessed in Health Behaviour in School-aged Children via the Cantril ladder with 10 steps indicating the worst and best possible life. This range of values (0-10) was dichotomized into 'low' (0-5) vs. 'high' (6-10). Countries, age groups and genders were compared based on the odds ratio (OR) of declaring a higher LS in 2010 with respect to 2002. Results: Analyzing the difference between 2002 and 2010, six countries from Western Europe show decreasing LS: Austria, Canada, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland and Greenland. In contrast, a group of Eastern European Countries, that is, Estonia, Croatia, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia and Ukraine, show a significant increase in LS. Data on gender and age differences confirm the lower rating of LS in girls and a decreasing rating with age. Conclusion: The LS scale appears to be a tool capable of discriminating the level of wellbeing of adolescent population among countries.
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U2 - 10.1093/eurpub/ckv014
DO - 10.1093/eurpub/ckv014
M3 - Review article
C2 - 25805795
AN - SCOPUS:84926672419
SN - 1101-1262
VL - 25
SP - 80
EP - 82
JO - European Journal of Public Health
JF - European Journal of Public Health
IS - S2
ER -
