RT journal article
T1 A longitudinal gender perspective of well-being and health in spanish youth: the UP&DOWN study
A1 Esteban Gonzalo, Sara
A1 Esteban-Gonzalo, Laura
A1 González-Pascual, Juan Luis
A1 Esteban-Cornejo, Irene
A1 Izquierdo Gómez, Rocío
A1 Conde de Caveda, Julio
A1 Castro Piñero, José
A1 Veiga L, Óscar
A2 Didáctica de la Educación FísicaPlástica y Musical
K1 affect
K1 gender
K1 health inequalities
K1 health-related quality of life
K1 self-perceived health
K1 well-being
AB Previous studies have observed a link between gender and well-being and health in young populations. The purpose of this research was twofold: (1) to analyse the cross-sectional relationship between gender status with well-being indicators and self-perceived health in adolescents at baseline and at 2-year follow-up and (2) to evaluate the prospective associations between gender at baseline and well-being indicators/self-perceived health assessed at 2-year follow-up. Well-being was measured using the KIDSCREEN-10 questionnaire (as a measure of health-related quality of life (HR-QoL)), the Children's Hope Scale and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule. Health status of the adolescents was assessed using self-perceived health. Multilevel mixed-effects linear/logistic regression models were carried out to assess the associations between gender status and well-being and health of a sample of 1590 Spanish adolescents. Adolescent girls were shown to have lower HR-QoL scores and higher negative affect scores, and had a higher risk of reporting poor health than boys, in both cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses. Adolescent girls seem to be more vulnerable to poorer well-being and self-reported health than boys. When looking at hedonic and eudemonic well-being separately, longitudinal differential evolution of boys and girls seems to indicate greater deterioration of hedonic well-being among girls as compared to boys. Overall, gender may have a relevant impact on mental and physical health during adolescence.
SN 1758-0854
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/35182
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/35182
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 07-nov-2026