the Positive Health Focus GroupGobina, Inese2021-05-182021-05-182015-04-01the 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/ckv0141101-1262https://dspace.rsu.lv/jspui/handle/123456789/4348Publisher Copyright: © 2015 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.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.3120222enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess3.3 Health sciences1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus databasePublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being/dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/researchoutputtypes/contributiontojournal/systematicreview10.1093/eurpub/ckv014http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84926672419&partnerID=8YFLogxK