Happiness as Related to Gender and Health in Early Adolescents

Mahon, Noreen E.; Yarcheski, Adela; Yarcheski, Thomas J.

doi:10.1177/1054773804271936

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“…The SWB of eighth grade students in Turkey did not vary with gender similar to published literature (Ben-Zur, 2003;Çevik, 2010;Diener, 1984;Diener, Such, Lucas & Smith, 1999;Eken, 2010;Kartal, 2013;Katja, Paiva, Marja, Terttu & Pekka, 2002;Mahon, Yarcheski & Yarcheski, 2005;Nigar, 2014;Özen, 2005;Tuzgöl-Dost, 2004;Tuzgöl-Dost, 2006). This could be attributed to developmental characteristics of schoolgirls and boys in this agegroup (Çelik, 2008).…”

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The Relationship Between 8th Grade Turkish Students’ Personal Charactertistics, Family Characteristics, Daily Hassles and Their Subjective Well-Being Levels

Altuntaş¹,

Sezer

2018

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This study investigated whether the subjective well-being of eighth grade students varies with specific individual characteristics, individual circumstances and familial characteristics. The study population was comprised of 408 students (206 girls, 202 boys) who were in the eighth grade in the academic year 2014-2015 in Malatya in Turkey. Data was collected using a "Personal Information Form", the"Daily Hassles Scale" and the "Subjective Well Being (SWB).T-Tests were used to describe students" demographic characteristics by gender, ANOVA to describe the relationship between SWB and students" demographic and family characteristics, and Stepwise regression to describe how daily hassles predict subject well being. There was a significant relationship between students" pocket money and academic achievements and their subjective well-being; no relationship was observed between their gender, parents" income or educational level and the number of siblings they had and their SWB . Students" problems with family, educational life and their wider environment had a significant influence on their SWB. The results of the research were discussed in accordance with the relevant literature and the suggestions were offered.

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The Relationship Between 8th Grade Turkish Students’ Personal Charactertistics, Family Characteristics, Daily Hassles and Their Subjective Well-Being Levels

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2018

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“…This relationship was also found in adolescents 64 , the young 65,66 and the elderly 67 . However, in the elderly, a study found that health predicted subjective well-being, but the reverse was not true 68 , perhaps because, in this population, other factors previously listed in the sociodemography of happiness subsection 3,4 came into play.…”

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Happiness and health in psychiatry: what are their implications?

Machado¹,

Tavares²,

Petribú³

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Arch. Clin. Psychiatry (São Paulo)

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Background: Happiness is a lasting state and is associated with the absence of negative emotions, the presence of positive emotions, life satisfaction, social engagement and objectives in life. Researchers have demonstrated the benefits of happiness in many aspects of life, but few studies have been conducted within psychiatry. Objectives: To develop a critical literature review of studies on happiness and health in order to bring some further and useful information to psychiatry updating the article "Happiness: a review" published in 2007 in Revista de Psiquiatria Clínica. Methods: Computational searching was undertaken of digital data basis (PubMed and SciELO) using the keywords "happiness" and "health". One hundred twenty-seven papers published between 2004 and 2014 were found, but only 76 had the keywords in the title or abstract and with this were selected. Results: Personality traits, such as self-direction; being married; being involved in physical and leisure activities; higher educational backgrounds and intelligence quotient; religiosity, volunteering and altruism; good physical and mental health; were positively related to happiness. Discussion: Analysis of the concept of happiness and its associated emotions may be more complex than describing the symptoms of psychiatric disorders. Despite this, the study of happiness brings several positive implications for psychiatry.

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“…Some authors [5,11,12] think that this different externalisation/internalisation patterns is responsible for showing different symptoms, and in particular for bringing more symptoms and less perceived well-being for girls. The same and other authors [5,6,19] also suggest that these different patterns could constitute a bias in the measurement of well-being for boys and girls: in fact, we usually evaluate people's well-being more on the basis of symptoms than on actions and this can lead to an over estimation of the difference between the genders. Anyway Mincowsky and Ross [19] controlled the difference in the health status between boys and girls for their different tendency to internalise and externalise, and found that this factor cannot completely account for this difference.…”

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confidence: 85%

“…This situation seems to start very early in the life course [2][3][4][5], and that some evidence of this gap may be seen already in adolescence. However, some researchers found doubtful results on this issue [6], also because large scale, cross-country results giving evidence on this fact are not common.…”

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Girls growing through adolescence have a higher risk of poor health

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Introduction: Self rated health, in adult population, is strongly associated with mortality and life expectancy. In younger people this association is less evident, but it may anticipate a similar risk in adult life. Our research, based on the HBSC (Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children) International collaboration, contributes to deepen the knowledge in this field by monitoring adolescents' health through a multinational survey involving 29 European countries, plus North America (Canada and USA) and Israel. Methods: Following an established methodology, the HBSC survey has elaborated a questionnaire on health and health behaviour, filled in by a representative national sample of 11-, 13-and 15-year-old boys and girls. The sample is constituted of more than 160,000 subjects interviewed during the 2001/2002 survey. Reported symptoms and self-rated health have been analysed by sex and age and through the different countries. Results: Girls resulted to have a poorer perception of their health, with respect to males, at all ages and in all countries (Overall OR = 1.70, 95% CI: 1.66-1.76). Age increases this risk both for males and females, with an average increase of 32% (95% CI: 29-34%) per year in the age-range 11-15. The situation is similar for reported symptoms, with an overall OR of 1.81 (95% CI: 1.77-1.85) for females of reporting three or more symptoms at least once a week; also this risk increases of 26% (95% CI: 24-27%) per year during the pre-adolescence phase. In both cases it could be shown a significant interaction effect between age and gender: OR = 1.19 (CI: 1.15-1.23) for perceived health and OR = 1.26 (CI: 1.23-1.29) for reported symptoms in females with respect to males. Conclusions: Even if adolescence is described as the healthiest period of life, a consistent minority of young people perceive and report a poor health and a high number of symptoms. Females are constantly in a worse position than males and older age groups are worse than younger ones.

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Happiness as Related to Gender and Health in Early Adolescents

Cited by 69 publications

References 22 publications

The Relationship Between 8th Grade Turkish Students’ Personal Charactertistics, Family Characteristics, Daily Hassles and Their Subjective Well-Being Levels

The Relationship Between 8th Grade Turkish Students’ Personal Charactertistics, Family Characteristics, Daily Hassles and Their Subjective Well-Being Levels

Happiness and health in psychiatry: what are their implications?

Girls growing through adolescence have a higher risk of poor health

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