Adolescent health-related quality of life and perceived satisfaction with life
Quality of Life ResearchPublished 27 June 2005
Keith J. Zullig, Robert F. Valois, E. Scott Huebner, J. Wanzer Drane
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This is the first study to document the relationship between poor physical health and perceived life satisfaction and it is suggested that life satisfaction may add additional information in longitudinal databases that track adolescent health because it appears to be related to HRQOL.
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This is the first study to document the relationship between poor physical health and perceived life satisfaction. This adds to the mounting evidence that life satisfaction is related to a variety of adolescent health behaviors and that life satisfaction may add additional information in longitudinal databases that track adolescent health because it appears to be related to HRQOL.
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