School Satisfaction among Adolescents: Testing Different Indicators for Its Measurement and Its Relationship with Overall Life Satisfaction and Subjective Well-Being in Romania and Spain

Autor/inn/en	Casas, Ferran; Baltatescu, Sergiu; Bertran, Irma; Gonzalez, Monica; Hatos, Adrian
Titel	School Satisfaction among Adolescents: Testing Different Indicators for Its Measurement and Its Relationship with Overall Life Satisfaction and Subjective Well-Being in Romania and Spain
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 111 (2013) 3, S.665-681 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-012-0025-9
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Structural Equation Models; Life Satisfaction; Factor Analysis; Well Being; Adolescents; Student Attitudes; Peer Relationship; Teacher Student Relationship; Social Indicators; Sociometric Techniques; Social Influences; Social Environment; Psychometrics; Measures (Individuals); Statistical Analysis; Correlation; Predictor Variables; Cross Cultural Studies; Positive Attitudes; School Attitudes; Student School Relationship; Australia; Romania; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Lebensvollendung; Faktorenanalyse; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Schülerverhalten; Peer-Beziehungen; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Soziometrie; Sozialer Einfluss; Soziales Umfeld; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Messdaten; Statistische Analyse; Korrelation; Prädiktor; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Schüler-Lehrer-Beziehung; Australien; Rumänien; Spanien
Abstract	This paper presents results from two samples of adolescents aged 13-16 from Romania and Spain (N = 930 + 1,945 = 2,875). The original 7-item version of the Personal Well-Being Index (PWI) was used, together with an item on overall life satisfaction (OLS) and a set of six items related to satisfaction with school. A confirmatory factor analysis of the six school satisfaction items shows good fit statistics when relating them to a latent variable. However, said latent variable does not show a good fit when related to the OLS or the PWI. Tests have led to the conclusion that the item that best summarises satisfaction with school is "satisfaction with my life as a student". Adding this item to the PWI-7 has shown a good fit with Structural Equation Modeling and higher standardised loading on the OLS. The analysis developed here, while confirming that the inclusion of a domain on satisfaction with school life contributes to the PWI with unique variance (2.5 % in this research), also offers an explanation for the surprising results obtained for adolescents in other countries (e.g. in Australia, Tomyn and Cummins in "Soc Indicat Res" 101(3):405-418 2010) by showing that satisfaction with friends at school and satisfaction with classmates did not significantly contribute to satisfaction with school. Our results suggest that school satisfaction is highly related to satisfaction with teachers, but weakly related to overall life satisfaction, while satisfaction with school friends and satisfaction with classmates are highly related to overall life satisfaction, but weakly related to satisfaction with school. Satisfaction with life as a student seems to be the item that best reconciles this "paradox" (in adults' eyes), at least with our samples of Romanian and Spanish adolescents. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10