Trends in life satisfaction in European and North-American adolescents from 2002 to 2010 in over 30 countries

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dc.contributor.authorthe Positive Health Focus Group
dc.contributor.authorGobina, Inese
dc.contributor.institutionDepartment of Public Health and Epidemiology
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-18T08:20:01Z
dc.date.available2021-05-18T08:20:01Z
dc.date.issued2015-04-01
dc.descriptionPublisher Copyright: © 2015 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.
dc.description.abstractBackground: 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.en
dc.description.statusPeer reviewed
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dc.identifier.citationthe Positive Health Focus Group & Gobina, I 2015, 'Trends in life satisfaction in European and North-American adolescents from 2002 to 2010 in over 30 countries', European Journal of Public Health, vol. 25, no. S2, pp. 80-82. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckv014
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/eurpub/ckv014
dc.identifier.issn1101-1262
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.rsu.lv/jspui/handle/123456789/4348
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean Journal of Public Health
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject3.3 Health sciences
dc.subject1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database
dc.subjectPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
dc.subjectSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
dc.titleTrends in life satisfaction in European and North-American adolescents from 2002 to 2010 in over 30 countriesen
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