Mònica González

Life-Satisfaction, Values and Goal Achievement: The Case of Planned Versus by Chance Searches on the Internet

The relation between life domains satisfactionand overall life satisfaction, values,internal/external perceived control and theoption of planning or by chance searchinginformation on the Internet has been exploredin a sample of Spanish adolescents aged 12 to16 (N=968). Age and sex differences have beenexamined. Results clearly confirm a positiverelation between satisfaction with life domainsand overall satisfaction with life.Satisfaction with life as a whole shows also tobe positively correlated with non-materialisticvalues. Perceived control shows to be, onceagain, a key construct to understand bothlife-satisfaction of adolescents and theirbehavioural intentions to plan or not to plantheir action to fulfil intended goals. A clearpattern between external and internal perceivedcontrol stems from our analysis: subjectsreporting to rely on chance when searchinginformation show higher external perceivedcontrol while respondents who prefer to planshow higher internal perceived control. Themore satisfaction expressed with learningrelated items (satisfaction with schoolperformance, learning, and preparation forfuture), with family and with life as a whole,the more tendencies are observed among therespondents to plan their search. No directrelation has been observed between values andbehavioural intentions to plan or not to planaction to fulfil intended goals. Perceivedcontrol, but also satisfaction with some lifedomains and with life as a whole seem to act asmediating factors between behaviouralintentions and values.

Subjective well‐being: what do adolescents say?

ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to analyse how 10‐ to 15‐year‐old adolescents define their own perceptions of well‐being and the factors influencing it at their age. Ten focus groups were organized, two from each age group. One group for each age included the students with the lowest scores in subjective well‐being (SWB) and the other included those with the highest, according to their responses to previously administered psychometric scales. The views of the participating adolescents were explored by means of a content analysis. In general, the children mentioned both positive and negative elements of participating in defining what constitutes well‐being. According to these children, well‐being is related to both affects and attitudes, relations with family and friends being key factors in it. Differences in the information provided reveal some variations according to age and SWB score. Children scoring lower in SWB tend to refer more to relationships with friends and basic needs covered, whereas those scoring higher tend to refer more to family relationships and not having problems. The results of this research can contribute to both social policy design and appraisal as they provide an in‐depth understanding of how SWB works at these ages.

Los medios audiovisuales entre los progenitores y los hijos e hijas

Resumen En el presente artículo se exponen los resultados de una investigación realizada con una muestra de adolescentes (N = 1211) entre 12 y 16 años y otra de sus progenitores (N = 462) para explorar cómo las diferentes respuestas generacionales ante la presencia de diversos medios audiovisuales en su entorno próximo afectan las interacciones familiares entre progenitores e hijos/as. Los resultados apuntan al hecho que los progenitores tienden a sobredimensionar tanto el interés como las informaciones de que dispone su propio hijo o hija acerca de la mayor parte de los medios audiovisuales explorados, así como la satisfacción que proporcionan las conversaciones con los adultos acerca de cualquier actividad con estos medios. Los progenitores realizan atribuciones diferentes sobre el uso de medios audiovisuales según se refieran a un hijo o a una hija. Se aprecia una importante diferencia entre la satisfacción con las conversaciones que los y las adolescentes mantienen con sus iguales y la que proporcionan las conversaciones con los adultos respecto a cualquiera de sus actividades con los medios.

Assessing Mindfulness on a Sample of Catalan-Speaking Spanish Adolescents: Validation of the Catalan Version of the Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure

BACKGROUND Interest in mindfulness has increased over the last decade, resulting in several mindfulness-based interventions being developed and their efficacy empirically demonstrated. The practice of mindfulness has been associated with low levels of anxiety or depression and improved quality of life or personal well-being. The aim of this study is to translate the Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure (CAMM) and adapt it to Catalan so as to analyze its internal consistency and construct and convergent validity. METHOD The CAMM was administered to a sample of secondary school students ranging in age from 11 to 16 years old. RESULTS The Catalan version of the CAMM shows a good fit with the unidimensional model and internal consistency similar to the original version (α = .80). Furthermore, CAMM scores correlated positively with subjective well-being, temperamental dimensions of effortful control and self-esteem. CONCLUSIONS The Catalan Version of CAMM is a valid and reliable measure of mindfulness skills.

Satisfaction with Life Domains and Salient Values for the Future

Within the frame of a cross-cultural project directed to explore how New Information and Communication Technologies (Nicts) affect the life of adolescents, a study of the relationship between life satisfaction domains and salient values for the future, as well as their relation with overall life satisfaction is presented. In order to explore to what extent the different country results could be considered really crossculturally comparable, two basic topics, sensitive in any research of this kind, such as life domain satisfactions and salient values for the future, have been analyzed in-depth. A Principal Components Analysis (Pca) of each country data and of the total data set have been developed.

Satisfacción escolar y bienestar subjetivo en la adolescencia: poniendo a prueba indicadores para su medición comparativa en Brasil, Chile y España

This paper studies the inter-linguistic and intercultural comparability of subjective wellbeing during adolescence, as well as school satisfaction as a component of this well-being, using samples of 12 to 16-year-old from Brazil (n=1588), Chile (n=843) and Spain (n=2900). As subjective well-being indicators, two versions of the PWI (Cummins, Eckersley, van Pallant, Vugt, and Misajon, 2003) were adopted, one measuring well-being with different life domains, a single-item scale on overall life satisfaction (OLS). The six items on satisfaction with different facets of the school life, used by Casas et al. (2013), were included as subjective indicators of school satisfaction. The original version of the PWI (PWI7) and a longer version with 10 items (PWI10) are used. Both versions show a good fit in Confirmatory Factor Analysis using the pooled sample. Using multiple regressions analysis and Structural Equations Modelling (SEM), different options are considered and analyzed in order to estimate the most appropriate model to compare subjective wellbeing cross-countries, with school satisfaction included. An analysis of the results indicates that two multi-group SEM, which include the six items on satisfaction with different facets of school life related to a latent variable, and also related to latent variables PWI7 and PWI10, respectively, show good comparability between countries. Multiple regression analysis suggests that the most useful synthetic indicator on satisfaction with school life is satisfaction with your life as student. When this item is included in PWI7 or PWI10, internal consistency of each of the scales (PWI8 and PWI11) improves, and the respective multi-group SEM of these two psychometric scales show that variances, covariances and regressions are comparable between the three studied countries. This was not the case with the overall mean indices, which is probably due to the different answering styles of adolescents in each country.

Satisfaction with Present Safety and Future Security as Components of Personal Well-Being Among Young People: Relationships with Other Psychosocial Constructs

This study focuses on Spanish students of post-compulsory secondary education (15- to 24-year-olds) and has the following objectives: (1) to analyse the relationships between satisfaction with present safety and future security and the items conforming the Catalan adaptation of Cummins et al.’s (Soc Indicators Res 64:159–190, 2003) PWI-7 (satisfaction with health, standard of living, life achievements, groups of people you belong to and relationships with other people) and the Overall Life Satisfaction (OLS) scale (for overall life satisfaction); (2) to explore the relationships between present safety and future security and other psychosocial constructs and (3) to identify potential gender differences and similarities between the above variables and relationships.

Personal Well-being and Interpersonal Communication of 12–16 Year-Old Girls and Their Own Mothers: Gender and Intergenerational Issues

Perceptions and evaluations of a paired sample of girls aged 12–16 and their own mothers (N = 358) are analysed in relation to interactions, interpersonal communication and personal well-being related variables. The frequency with which adolescents and mothers share different daily activities is explored, as well as the frequency they talk about different topics (such as television, free time, sports, and family) with each other.

Las aspiraciones materialistas y su relación con el bienestar psicológico y otros contructos psicosociales en dos muestras de adolescentes catalanes

Resumen En la presente comunicación se analizan las relaciones entre las aspiraciones materialistas (grado en el cual a los adolescentes encuestados les gustaría ser apreciados por las otras personas a la edad de 21 años en una serie de valores), el bienestar psicológico (satisfacción con diferentes ámbitos de la vida y con la vida globalmente) y algunos constructos psicosociales (autoestima, apoyo social percibido por parte de la familia y los amigos y percepción de control), en dos muestras de adolescentes catalanes de entre 12 a 16 años. Estas muestras fueron obtenidas en diferentes años: 2003 (N = 2715) y 2006 (N = 5051), a través de un cuestionario de características similares, administrado en diferentes centros educativos, siendo la segunda de las muestras representativa de la población catalana de estas edades. Se describen los resultados obtenidos a partir de la aplicación de diferentes Análisis de Componentes Principales (ACP) realizados con el listado de valores incluido en el cuestionario. Las relaciones entre la dimensión de valores materiales, que está formada en ambas muestras por el valor atribuido al dinero, el poder y la imagen, y el resto de constructos explorados serán también analizadas y discutidas en el presente trabajo.

Qué coincidencias y discrepancias tienen los jóvenes y sus padres ante los medios

Se presentan los resultados de una investigacion desarrollada mediante la administracion de un cuestionario sobre usos y evaluaciones que hacen chicos y chicas de diversos medios audiovisuales (television, ordenador, consola, CD-Roms educativos, Internet y juegos para ordenador y para consola). Los resultados nos muestran como los progenitores sobreestiman sistematicamente las informaciones que sus hijos e hijas tienen acerca de cualquier medio audiovisual. En terminos generales, los videojuegos son el medio con mas concordancias negativas, el ordenador el que tiene mas concordancias positivas y la television el que acumula mas discrepancias entre generaciones.