Satisfaction with life and associated factors in a sample of juvenile offenders

The aim of this research is, on the one hand, to know the relationship between perceived social support, emotional and cognitive empathy, satisfaction with life, the expression of anger as a trait and five dimensions of self-concept -academic, social, emotional, familiar and physical-in a sample of residents in a re-education center for juvenile offenders in compliance with judicial measures. On the other hand, this study attempts to know which are the variables that best predict satisfaction with life in the same sample. The main results are the existence of positive correlations of satisfaction with life with social support and self-concept, and that social support and family self-concept are the variables that best predict satisfaction with life.