Optimism as a candidate health asset: exploring its links with adolescent quality of life in Sweden

Katrin Häggström Westberg; Marie Wilhsson; Petra Svedberg; Jens M. Nygren; Antony Morgan; Maria Nyholm

doi:10.1111/cdev.12958

Optimism as a candidate health asset: exploring its links with adolescent quality of life in Sweden

Katrin Häggström Westberg, Marie Wilhsson, Petra Svedberg, Jens M. Nygren, Antony Morgan, Maria Nyholm^*

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GCU London

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Abstract

This study aims to understand the role that optimism could play in the context of a health asset approach to promote adolescent health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Adolescents (n = 948), between 11 and 16 years old from a medium-sized rural town in Sweden, answered questionnaires measuring optimism, pessimism, and HRQOL. The findings indicate a significant decrease in optimism and a significant increase in pessimism between early and midadolescence. The study has allowed us to present associational evidence of the links between optimism and HRQOL. This infers the potential of an optimistic orientation about the future to function as a health asset during adolescence and by implication may provide additional intervention tool in the planning of health promotion strategies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	970-984
Number of pages	15
Journal	Child Development
Volume	90
Issue number	3
Early online date	18 Sept 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12958
Publication status	Published - May 2019

Keywords

quality of life
Sweden
adolescent wellbeing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Education
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health

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10.1111/cdev.12958

Häggström Westberg, K.H. et al (2017) Optimism as a candidate health asset: exploring its links with adolescent quality of life
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: [Häggström Westberg, K., Wilhsson, M., Svedberg, P., Nygren, J. M., Morgan, A. and Nyholm, M. (2017), Optimism as a Candidate Health Asset: Exploring Its Links With Adolescent Quality of Life in Sweden. Child Dev.] which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12958. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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