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Individual resilience and family life satisfaction of adolescents

During the year 2017, Croatian Laboratory for Prevention Research has conducted a project Positive Development of City of Zagreb’s Youth – state of the art. Purpose of the project was to explore the positive development and risk behaviour of adolescents. The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between individual resilience and family life satisfaction. A representative sample of the survey included 4821 students from 24 secondary schools in Zagreb, Croatian capital. Age of the participants was from 14 to 19 (48.2% female and 43.7% male). Family Satisfaction Scale, FACES IV (Olson & Gorall, 2006) and Resilience and Youth Development Module, CHKS (California Department of Education, 1997) were applied. The results have shown that boys are more satisfied with family life than girls (p<0.05). The relationship between resilience traits and family life satisfaction was analyzed. Higher results on resilience traits were associated with a higher result of family life satisfaction and contrary. There is a contribution of predictors of resilience traits in explaining family life satisfaction. For boys, cooperation & communication, empathy, effective help-seeking and self-awareness are significant predictors in explaining family life satisfaction, but goals & aspirations and self–efficacy had no predictive value. Contrarily, only self-efficacy was not found to have predictive value in explaining family life satisfaction for girls. Association between individual resilience and family life satisfaction was confirmed in other studies (e.g. Fredrickson, et al. 2003 ; Gardiner, 2006). Family environment, as well as one's satisfaction with family life, can play important role in the moderation of stressful life events and adverse consequences of the various negative impacts that are adolescents exposed to (Waylen, Stallard & Stewart-Brown, 2008). Moreover, if adolescent recognize their families as a resource, family as a system have a better chance to enhance (influence) their positive development.

individual resilience, family life satisfaction, adolescents

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