Life satisfaction, perceived social support and affect of adolescents

Life satisfaction is the way a person evaluates his or her life and how he or she feels about where it is going in the future. It is a measure of well-being and may be assessed in terms of mood, satisfaction with interpersonal relationships and with achieved goals, self-concept, and self-perceived ability to cope with daily life. The main aim of this study was to examine the perceived social support affect and life satisfaction of adolescents. The sample comprised of 801 adolescents (boys = 403; girls = 398) belonging to the age range of 11 to 19 years. The main variables were examined using Satisfaction with Life Scale, Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support and Positive and Negative Affect Schedule. The statistical techniques employed for analysis of the data were Descriptive statistics, Student's t-test, Analysis of variance (One-way and two-way ANOVA), Duncan's multiple range test, and Pearson's correlation coefficient. The results showed that three groups of adolescents (early, middle, and late adolescents) did not differ in their levels of perceived social support, satisfaction with life and positive affect. The early adolescents had higher levels of negative affect than late