What is it about?
Are male and female adolescents equally satisfied with their lives overall? Do boys and girls have the same propensity towards complete life satisfaction and dissatisfaction? What could drive gender life satisfaction differences?
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Why is it important?
Adolescence, is a critical transitional stage of psychological and physical development. Emotional and behavioural difficulties during adolescence can have adverse effects on future adult outcomes, human capital formation, cognition and mental health. This study provides evidence of lower female life satisfaction levels. Interventions addressing the adolescent gender life satisfaction gap, and targeting dissatisfied adolescents from both genders, can lead to life outcome improvements.
Perspectives
I hope that this study leads to early life interventions and changes in parenting leading to equally happy male and female adolescents and future adults. Further, I wish that the data limitations faced, will encourage incorporation of biomedical information, personality tests and vignettes (in addition to self-reported life satisfaction and well-being outcomes) in multi-purpose panels with a social science orientation.
Georgios Chrysanthou
University of Sheffield
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This page is a summary of: A Multiple Cohort Study of the Gender Gradient of Life Satisfaction during Adolescence: Longitudinal Evidence from Great Britain*, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, June 2021, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/obes.12446.
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