Satisfaction with life domains and salient values for the future. Data from children and their parents in five different countries

Within the frame of a cross-cultural project directed to explore how New Information and Communica-tion Technologies (NICTs) affect the life of the adolescents, a study of the relationship between life satisfaction domains and salient values for future, as well as their relation with overall life satisfaction is presented. In order to explore to what extend the different country results could be considered really cross-culturally comparable, two basic topics, sensitive in any research of this kind, such as life domain satisfactions and salient values for future, have been in-depth analyzed. Principal Components Analysis (PCA) of each country data and of the total data set have been developed. The sample is composed of 8,995 adolescents between 12 and 16 years old and 4,381 of their parents (48.7 % of the adolescents) from 5 different regions: Catalonia (Spain), Western Cape (South Africa), Norway, Mumbai (India) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Results from PCA offer a four-dimension structure as a good solution for life satisfaction domains and a three-dimension structure for salient values, which are very similar in all the analyzed regions. Life satisfaction domains have been only explored among children. For salient values, a similar structure for children’s and parents ’ data has been observed in all regions. Gender and age differences have bee