Association of Personal Values in Adolescence with Subjective Health Status, Meaning in Life, and Life Satisfaction in Adulthood: A Cross‐sectional Study with Retrospective Recall  1 | Zendy

Iida Mako | Zendy; Watanabe Kazuhiro | Zendy; Yeo Seon Ae | Zendy; Yasuma Naonori | Zendy; Nishi Daisuke | Zendy; Kawakami Norito | Zendy

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Association of Personal Values in Adolescence with Subjective Health Status, Meaning in Life, and Life Satisfaction in Adulthood: A Cross‐sectional Study with Retrospective Recall 1

Author(s) -

Iida Mako,

Watanabe Kazuhiro,

Yeo Seon Ae,

Yasuma Naonori,

Nishi Daisuke,

Kawakami Norito

Publication year - 2025

Publication title -

japanese psychological research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.392

H-Index - 30

eISSN - 1468-5884

pISSN - 0021-5368

DOI - 10.1111/jpr.12444

Subject(s) - psychology , openness to experience , life satisfaction , association (psychology) , mental health , recall , meaning (existential) , cross sectional study , young adult , clinical psychology , perspective (graphical) , well being , developmental psychology , gerontology , social psychology , medicine , psychiatry , pathology , artificial intelligence , cognitive psychology , computer science , psychotherapist

Abstract This study aimed to replicate a previous finding of the association between personal values in adolescence and health/mental well‐being in adulthood among workers, in a large community sample, with an additional focus on eudemonic well‐being. A cross‐sectional study was conducted in urban and suburban cities of Japan. Subjective health status, eudemonic well‐being (meaning in life), and life satisfaction in adulthood were measured in 2010; 11 types of personal values and commitment to values in adolescence were assessed with the retrospective recall in 2017. A total of 2,413 adults were included in the multiple linear regression analyses. None of the personal values were related to life satisfaction unlike the previous study. Consistent results were that commitment to values was positively associated with life satisfaction, and the value of graduating from school was positively associated with subjective health status. Personal values related to openness to change and self‐enhancement were positively associated with meaning in life in adulthood. This study did not fully replicate previous findings, but added the eudemonic perspective of mental well‐being to the previous study.

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