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10.1093/eurpub/ckv014
Title: | Trends in life satisfaction in European and North-American adolescents from 2002 to 2010 in over 30 countries |
Authors: | the Positive Health Focus Group Gobina, Inese Department of Public Health and Epidemiology |
Keywords: | 3.3 Health sciences;1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database;Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health;SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being |
Issue Date: | 1-Apr-2015 |
Citation: | the 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 |
Abstract: | 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. |
Description: | Publisher Copyright: © 2015 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1093/eurpub/ckv014 |
ISSN: | 1101-1262 |
Appears in Collections: | Research outputs from Pure / Zinātniskās darbības rezultāti no ZDIS Pure |
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