Evaluation of domain-specific satisfaction in high school and college context

Well-being can be considered as a multidimensional construct involving multiple life domains. In recent years there has been a significant increase in studies on experienced well-being in specific contexts with particular value (f.e. schools and universities) for the realization of people’s career and life projects. Academic satisfaction can be defined as the enjoyment of one’s experiences related to the student’s role and involves the achievement of academic objectives and aspirations. Therefore, school and university satisfaction can play a key role in defining the level of quality of student’s life. The aim of this contribution is to present both College Satisfaction Scale (C Sat) and the High-School Satisfaction Scale (H-Sat) that measure in a multidimensional perspective college and school satisfaction. The scales consist of 20 items, 4 for each area of satisfaction: Adequacy of student’s choice, Quality of university (or school) services, Relations with colleagues, Quality of study habits, Usefulness for the future career. Moreover, two studies will be presented, they used the C-Sat to demonstrate the mediating role of domain-specific satisfaction between: a) positive resources and general well-being indices; b) risk intelligence and positive perceptions about future work