caa a22 4500 467917140 CHVBK 20180406152906.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11205-005-8208-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11205-005-8208-2 Is Extremely High Life Satisfaction During Adolescence Advantageous? [Elektronische Daten] [Shannon Suldo, E. Huebner] This study examined whether extremely high life satisfaction was associated with adaptive functioning or maladaptive functioning. Six hundred ninety-eight secondary level students completed the Students' Life Satisfaction Scale [Huebner, 1991a, School Psychology International, 12, pp. 231-240], Youth Self-Report of the Child Behavior Checklist [Achenbach and Edelbrock, 1991, Child Behavior Checklist and Youth Self-Report, Burlington, VT], Abbreviated Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire [Francis, 1996, Personality and Individual Differences, 21, pp. 835-844], Self-Efficacy Questionnaire for Children (Muris, 2001, Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assesment, 23(3), pp. 145-149], and the Child and Adolescent Social Support Scale (Malecki and Demaray, 2002, Psychology in Schools, 39, pp. 1-18]. Three groups of students were created based on their life satisfaction reports: very high (top 10%), average (middle 25%), and very low (lowest 10%). Compared to students with average life satisfaction, students with very high life satisfaction had higher levels on all indicators of adaptive psychosocial functioning, except extraversion. Moreover, students with very high satisfaction had the lowest scores on all measures of emotional and behavioral problems. However, rates of clinical levels of behavior problems did not differ significantly between the very high and average groups. Finally, several necessary, but not sufficient factors for very high life satisfaction were identified. Taken together, the findings support the notion that very high life satisfaction is associated with positive psychosocial functioning. Furthermore, adolescents' reports of their life satisfaction revealed differences in adjustment that were not captured by measures of psychopathology. Springer, 2005 subjective well-being nationallicence life satisfaction nationallicence adolescents nationallicence secondary students nationallicence mental health nationallicence psychosocial adjustment nationallicence Suldo Shannon Department of Psychological and Social Foundations, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, EDU 162, 33620, Tampa, FL, USA aut Huebner E. University of South Carolina, SC, USA aut Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 78/2(2006-09-01), 179-203 0303-8300 78:2<179 2006 78 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-8208-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-8208-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Suldo Shannon Department of Psychological and Social Foundations, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, EDU 162, 33620, Tampa, FL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Huebner E. University of South Carolina, SC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 78/2(2006-09-01), 179-203 0303-8300 78:2<179 2006 78 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer