scholarly journals Parent-Adolescent Communication Quality and Life Satisfaction: The Mediating Roles of Autonomy and Future Orientation

2021 ◽  
Vol Volume 14 ◽  
pp. 1091-1099
Author(s):  
Xinwen Bi ◽  
Shuqiong Wang
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-361
Author(s):  
Mile Vuković ◽  
Željana Sukur ◽  
Nadežda Krstić

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 597-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Cabras ◽  
Marina Mondo

Studies have emphasized that career adaptability and future orientation are important factors in one’s ability to deal with difficulties and achieve life satisfaction. This study examines the relationships among future orientation, career adaptability resources, and life satisfaction. Survey data from 373 Italian and Spanish university students were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results indicated that future orientation fully mediated the relationship between career adaptability and life satisfaction in the Italian and the Spanish students. These findings suggest that university students who are confident in their career adaptability are satisfied with life because they are confident about their future prospects. The implications of these observed relationships for counseling interventions and further research are discussed.


1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 807-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane R. Dickie ◽  
Thomas E. Ludwig ◽  
David Blauw

This study explored the relationship between life satisfaction, several measures of health, several measures of activity level, and a measure of future orientation. Subjects were 30 institutionalized and 32 non-institutionalized older adults. In this sample age had no effect on reported life satisfaction, nor was there a difference between the institutionalized and non-institutionalized groups. However, males reported higher life satisfaction than females. Self-reported health status was related to life satisfaction, as was the number of days spent in bed during the past year. Finally, those who had made plans for things to do during the next several years reported higher life satisfaction than those who had no plans for the future. It was concluded that in this sample institutionalization did not influence life satisfaction directly but rather through health variables which are associated with institutionalization.


Author(s):  
Diego García Álvarez ◽  
María José Soler

The Growing up Strong Program has been designed within the framework of positive psychology as an exercise in character education based on the identification, recognition, and use of character strengths among teenagers in secondary school. The study explores the role of mental health (understood as proper psychosocial functioning) in the promotion of adolescent psychological well-being and positive youth development. The aim of this research was to evaluate the resources of the subjects following their participation in the Program. The sample comprised 221 male and female adolescents, aged between 12 and 15. The data were collected using the Scale of Psychological Well-Being for Adolescents and the Factors in Youth Development Scale, both with demonstrated reliability and validity. The results showed, after the Program: good levels of positive youth developmental resources (self-esteem, optimism, self-efficacy and future orientation); evidence of prevention of psychosocial risk behaviors, specifically in relation to raised awareness of substance use, alcohol consumption and smoking, and non-specifically in relation to social-relational risks; good levels of life satisfaction and psychological well-being; positive correlations between positive youth development, psychological well-being, life satisfaction and prevention of psychosocial risks. It can be concluded that the Growing up Strong Program is an instance in character, emotional and well-being education, which generates a healthy network among adolescent users in the educational community.


Author(s):  
Aleksandrs Koļesovs

This study explored a model of prediction of life satisfaction by individual future orientation (FO) and demographic factors. Individual views of the future and goals are closely associated with well-being. Theories of FO represent different approaches to its conceptualization. Following Seginer (2009), this study presents a combination of motivational, cognitive, and behavioral components of FO. Participants were 130 females and 75 males from 18 to 49. A new measure of individual FO (the Individual Future Orientation Scale, IFOS) and the Satisfaction With Life Scale (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985) were used for the assessment. The results of structural equation modeling demonstrate that relatively higher life satisfaction is predicted by higher individual FO and higher income assessed as an income range and subjective satisfaction with it. Therefore, subjective involvement in a pursuit of future goals and financial background add to understanding of individual satisfaction with life.


2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (8) ◽  
pp. 1100-1122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rena Cornell Zito

Teenage mothers often report immense personal benefits of children, claiming that motherhood reordered their priorities, provided a sense of purpose, and prevented a worse fate, yet the potentially beneficial impacts of early motherhood receive little empirical attention. This study employs propensity score analysis using nearest neighbor matching to assess the causal effect of teenage motherhood on personal transformation (i.e., self-worth, life satisfaction, and orientation toward risk, the future, and relationships) using first- and third-wave National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health data from 7,563 female respondents. The study finds that teenage mothers are more risk averse than similarly situated non-mothers. Contrary to qualitative narratives, though, adolescent mothers express lower global life satisfaction than their counterparts and do not differ from them in self-worth, future orientation, or relationship orientation. Excepting risk aversion, these results imply that accounts of transformation may be less about realized transformation than projecting competent identities that counter stigma.


GeroPsych ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minjie Lu ◽  
Angel Y. Li ◽  
Helene H. Fung ◽  
Klaus Rothermund ◽  
Frieder R. Lang

Abstract. This study addresses prior mixed findings on the relationship between future time perspective (FTP) and well-being as well as examines the associations between three aspects of FTP and life satisfaction in the health and friendship domains. 159 Germans, 97 US Americans, and 240 Hong Kong Chinese, aged 19–86 years, completed a survey on future self-views (valence) and life satisfaction. They also reported the extent to which they perceived future time as expanded vs. limited (time extension) and meaningful (openness). Findings revealed that individuals with more positive future self-views had higher satisfaction. However, those who perceived their future as more meaningful or perceived more time in their future reported higher satisfaction even when future self-views were less positive.


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