Goals and satisfaction with life in Spanish and Peruvian adolescents according to sex and socioeconomic level

• Autores: Díaz Morales, Juan Francisco, Martínez, Patricia
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2004
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/6855
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/psicologia/article/view/6855
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: satisfaction with life; personal goals; adolescents; sex; socioeconomic level; cultu­re; satisfacción con la vida; metas personales; adolescentes; sexo; nivel socioeconómico; cultura

This study analyzes the kind of personal goals and life satisfaction levels amongst Spanish andPeruvian adolescents according to their sex and socioeconomic leve!. 389 Spanish and 285 Pe­ ruvian adolescents of both sexes from different socioeconomic leve! participated in this study. For the Spanish sample Palys and Little's (1983) Personal  Goals Analysis and Andrews and Withey's (1976) D-T Scale (Delight-Terrible) were used; for the Peruvian sample the measure­ ment instruments were Nuttin's (1985) Motivational lnduction Method along with Pavot and Diener's (1993) Life Satisfaction Scale. Results show significant similarities in the goals des­ cribed by both samples, as well as sex differences and socioeconomic differences.