Chilean adolescents’ sex differences in subjective well-being in international context
Abstract
Subjective well-being is an important aspect of children and adolescent’s development. Previous studies shown that subjective well-being presents differences according to sex, in different countries women have a lower score compared to men considering different scales. However, often studies have shown the meaning of this difference is not always presented in favor of men. The present study analyzes data from two samples of Chilean adolescents from 7th grade in urban schools (N1 = 776, N2 = 336), based on the International Survey of Children´s Well-being (ISCWeB) project. Scores of two measures of subjective well-being are compared: Student Life Satisfaction Scale (SLSS) and Global Life Satisfaction (OLS) use as general measures of subjective well-being, considering the Chilean sample and the international context. Results show that in Chile, men have a higher subjective well-being compared to women, like to what happens in other developed countries. Results are discussed based on different hypotheses to explain the differences in favor of one group or another.
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