A Way to Improve Adolescents' Life Satisfaction: School Altruistic Group Games.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies have shown that adolescents are experiencing growing pains due to their unbalanced physical and mental development. Their life satisfaction showed a steady downward trend with age. Altruism may be an effective way to improve their life satisfaction. Against this background, the current study carried out school altruistic group games (SAGGs) for the first time to explore the role of altruistic group activities in the school context in improving adolescents' life satisfaction. There were 176 adolescents in the study, including 90 in the experimental group and 86 in the control group, who were enrolled from a junior high school in East China. A 10-week school altruism group game was carried out for the experimental group. The participants in the control group participated in

SUBMITTER: Lu C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7969496 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature