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A total of 266 adolescent students responded to two self-report well-being measures, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (Watson et al., 1988) and the Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (Dew and Huebner, 1994). The findings supported multidimensional models of subjective well-being. Similar to findings with adults and younger children, three separable factors of well-being were identified: positive affect, negative affect, and life satisfaction. Demographic variables correlated differentially with the three factors. Considered together with findings from other research, the results suggest the structural invariance of subjective well-being from middle childhood through adulthood.
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Huebner, E.S., Dew, T. The interrelationships of positive affect, negative affect, and life satisfaction in an adolescent sample. Soc Indic Res 38, 129–137 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00300455
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