title: Developmental investigation of the domain-specific nature of the life satisfaction construct across the post-school transition.
abstract: This study evaluated the nature of the life satisfaction construct with an emphasis on the comparison between a global or domain-specific operationalization during the transition from adolescence to adulthood. A combination of person-centered and variable-centered methods were used to analyze 7 waves of data covering the postschool transition from a sample of 24,721 youth participating in Longitudinal Study of Australian Youth (LSAY) between 1998 and 2010. Evidence for the increasing importance of a domain-specific approach as adolescents entered adulthood was provided by: (1) factor analyses identifying a 3-factor model covering achievement, family, and leisure satisfaction that proved invariant across time waves; (2) factor mixture analyses showing shape-related differences between profiles (i.e., within-profile differences between domains) that increased as young people moved into adulthood.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine.
authors.forename: Xidan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Institute for Positive Psychology and Education.
authors.forename: Alexandre J S
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Morin
authors.affiliation: Institute for Positive Psychology and Education.
authors.forename: Philip D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.affiliation: Institute for Positive Psychology and Education.
authors.forename: Herbert W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Marsh
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D001315:Australia; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007899:Leisure Activities / Q000523:psychology; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D055815:Young Adult