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  • Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Adolescent Health

Background:

  • Adolescence involves significant biological and psychosocial changes impacting well-being.
  • Identifying factors that enhance life satisfaction is crucial for positive youth development.
  • Subjective well-being may decrease during adolescence due to these changes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the interplay of social support, emotion regulation, resilience, and life satisfaction in adolescents.
  • To identify key predictors of life satisfaction among young people.
  • To understand the indirect pathways through which these variables influence adolescent well-being.

Main Methods:

  • Structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed to analyze the relationships between variables.
  • 1,188 adolescents (aged 12-16) completed validated questionnaires.
  • Measures included social support, emotion regulation (Trait Meta Mood Scale), resilience (CD-RISC), and life satisfaction (SWLS).

Main Results:

  • Family support, emotion regulation, and resilience directly predicted life satisfaction.
  • Friend support and emotion regulation predicted resilience.
  • Family and teacher support predicted emotion regulation.

Conclusions:

  • Social support and emotion regulation indirectly enhance adolescent life satisfaction via resilience.
  • Resilience acts as a key mediator in the relationship between social support, emotion regulation, and life satisfaction.
  • Findings offer insights for interventions promoting adolescent well-being.