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Sun, Rachel C. F.; Shek, Daniel T. L. – Social Indicators Research, 2012
The purpose of this replication study was to examine the relationships among life satisfaction, positive youth development and problem behaviour. The respondents were 7,151 Chinese Secondary 2 (Grade 8) students (3,707 boys and 3,014 girls) recruited from 44 schools in Hong Kong. Validated assessment tools measuring positive youth development,…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Structural Equation Models, Foreign Countries, Grade 8
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Chen, Jennifer Jun-Li; Liu, Xiaodong – Social Indicators Research, 2012
Research has documented that parenting practices, such as parental warmth and parental punishment, play a mediating role in linking individual (e.g., age, gender) and familial characteristics (e.g., economic status, marital quality) to the psychological well-being of children. However, few studies have validated these connections with respect to…
Descriptors: Economic Status, Marital Satisfaction, Structural Equation Models, Parenting Styles
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Sun, Rachel C. F.; Shek, Daniel T. L. – Social Indicators Research, 2010
This paper examines the relationships among life satisfaction, positive youth development, and problem behaviour. A total of 7,975 Secondary One students (4,169 boys and 3,387 girls; with most aged 12) of Chinese ethnicity recruited from 48 schools responded to validated measures of life satisfaction, positive youth development and problem…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Life Satisfaction, Structural Equation Models, Adolescents