Subjective Wellbeing and its Meaning for Young People in a Rural Australian Center |
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Authors: | Lisa Bourke Paula M Geldens |
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Institution: | (1) School of Rural Health, University of Melbourne, 6500, Shepparton, Vic, 3632, Australia;(2) School of Life Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, 3122, Australia |
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Abstract: | In Australia, wellbeing has been used as an assessment of how young people are doing by health researchers, youth researchers
and psychologists. The concept ‚wellbeing’ is increasingly applied to young people in their late teens and early twenties
with little discussion of young people’s perspectives. Using quantitative measures of subjective wellbeing as well as qualitative
interviews to allow young people to discuss the concept of wellbeing, this study explored the levels and meanings of wellbeing
among 91 young people (aged 16–24) from a rural center in south-east Australia. Key components of wellbeing for young people
were found to include relationships, psychological dimensions and personal issues while family and ‚pressure’ impacted wellbeing.
For most young people, wellbeing was multidimensional, holistic and centred around their own lives. Findings suggest that
the Deiner et al. satisfaction with life scale was an appropriate measure of young people’s wellbeing but that health, sociology
of youth and psychological approaches all contribute to young people’s perspectives of wellbeing and need to be incorporated
into a more holistic measure of SWB for young people. |
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Keywords: | wellbeing young people subjective wellbeing satisfaction with life happiness health and rural |
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