Developmental investigation of the domain-specific nature of the life satisfaction construct across the post-school transition
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Chen, Xidan, Morin, Alexandre J. S., Parker, Philip D. and Marsh, Herbert W.. (2015). Developmental investigation of the domain-specific nature of the life satisfaction construct across the post-school transition. Developmental Psychology. 51(8), pp. 1074-1085. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039477
Authors | Chen, Xidan, Morin, Alexandre J. S., Parker, Philip D. and Marsh, Herbert W. |
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Abstract | This study evaluated the nature of the life satisfaction construct with an emphasis on the comparison between a global or domain-specific operationalization during the transition from adolescence to adulthood. A combination of person-centered and variable-centered methods were used to analyze seven waves of data covering the post-school transition from a sample of 24721 youth participating in Longitudinal Study of Australian Youth between 1998 and 2010. Evidence for the increasing importance of a domain-specific approach as adolescents entered adulthood was provided by: (1) factor analyses identifying a three-factor model covering achievement, family, and leisure satisfaction that proved invariant across time waves; (2) factor mixture analyses showing shape-related differences between profiles (i.e., within-profile differences between domains) that increased as young people moved into adulthood. |
Keywords | well-being; life satisfaction; measurement invariance; factor mixture modeling; Longitudinal Study of Australian Youth |
Year | 2015 |
Journal | Developmental Psychology |
Journal citation | 51 (8), pp. 1074-1085 |
Publisher | American Psychological Association |
ISSN | 0012-1649 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039477 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-84938059922 |
Open access | Published as green open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 1074-1085 |
Research Group | Institute for Positive Psychology and Education |
Author's accepted manuscript | File Access Level Open |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Place of publication | United States of America |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/87z4y/developmental-investigation-of-the-domain-specific-nature-of-the-life-satisfaction-construct-across-the-post-school-transition
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