Back to main pageSatisfacion with Life Domains and Salient Values for Future.
Data from Children and their Parents in five Different Coutries.
Casas, F., Figuer, C., González, M. & Coenders, G.
Glatzer, W., von Below, S. & Stoffregen, M. (Eds.). Challenges for Quality of Life in the Contemporary World. Advances in Quality-of-Life Studies, Theory and Research. Springer, Heildelberg (2004): 233-248.
Abstract:
Within the frame of a cross-cultural project directed to
explore how New Information and Communica-tion Technologies (NICTs) affect the
life of the adolescents, a study of the relationship between life satisfaction
domains and salient values for future, as well as their relation with overall
life satisfaction is presented. In order to explore to what extend the different
country results could be considered really cross-culturally comparable, two
basic topics, sensitive in any research of this kind, such as life domain
satisfactions and salient values for future, have been in-depth analyzed.
Principal Components Analysis (PCA) of each country data and of the total data
set have been developed.
The sample is composed of 8,995 adolescents between 12 and 16 years old and
4,381 of their parents (48.7 % of the adolescents) from 5 different regions:
Catalonia (Spain), Western Cape (South Africa), Norway, Mumbai (India) and Rio
de Janeiro (Brazil).
Results from PCA offer a four-dimension structure as a good solution for life
satisfaction domains and a three-dimension structure for salient values, which
are very similar in all the analyzed regions. Life satisfaction domains have
been only explored among children. For salient values, a similar structure for
children’s and parents’ data has been observed in all regions. Gender and age
differences have been examined. The observed similarity of the structure of
these two topics allows us to consider the possibil-ity of comparing data of
other topics included within the wider project.