Abstract
Adolescence is a stage characterized by many biological and psychosocial changes, all of which may result in a decrease in subjective well-being. It is therefore necessary to identify those factors that contribute to increased life satisfaction, in order to promote positive development among young people. The aim of this study is to examine the dynamics of a set of variables that contribute to life satisfaction. A total of 1,188 adolescents (aged between 12 and 16 years) completed the Perceived Social Support from Family and Friends and Perception of the School Environment Questionnaires, the Trait Meta Mood Scale (TMMS), Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale-10 (CD-RISC), and Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) for social support, emotion regulation, resilience, and life satisfaction. By applying structural equation modeling (SEM), the results reveal a direct prediction of family support, emotion regulation, and resilience on life satisfaction. Support from friends and emotion regulation was also found to explain resilience, and support from family and teachers was found to predict emotion regulation. In conclusion, emotion regulation and social support were found to indirectly affect life satisfaction among adolescents through resilience. The theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed.
Highlights
Positive psychology aims to identify the strengths that foster healthy development and the optimal environments that foster physical and psychological well-being (Compton and Hoffman, 2019)
Achieving these aims will enable us to (a) expand existing scientific knowledge, since it will help redress the lack of studies analyzing the relationships which exist between these variables, and contribute to clarifying the heterogeneity of the results reported to date (You et al, 2018), and (b) identify those factors that contribute to life satisfaction, with the aim of fostering adolescent wellbeing in a life stage in which a notable drop in subjective
The results revealed a good fit of the final model to the data (Figure 2), with family support, emotion regulation, and resilience explaining 43.4% of the variance observed in life satisfaction
Summary
Positive psychology aims to identify the strengths that foster healthy development and the optimal environments that foster physical and psychological well-being (Compton and Hoffman, 2019). The present study is relevant, firstly, because empirically test a theoretical model of life satisfaction by analyzing the associations between different types of perceived social support and life satisfaction, explained by emotion regulation and resilience (Figure 1); and secondly, because it aims to determine which contextual factor has the greatest prediction on psychological assets and life satisfaction, since differentiating between types of social support in accordance with source tends to provide more specific information about adolescent development (Compton and Hoffman, 2019) Achieving these aims will enable us to (a) expand existing scientific knowledge, since it will help redress the lack of studies analyzing the relationships which exist between these variables, and contribute to clarifying the heterogeneity of the results reported to date (You et al, 2018), and (b) identify those factors that contribute to life satisfaction, with the aim of fostering adolescent wellbeing in a life stage in which a notable drop in subjective. If the aim is to ensure psychologically well-adjusted young people, this decrease in well-being must be addressed (González-Carrasco et al, 2017; Orben et al, 2020)
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