The purpose of this study was to describe how adolescents in the age of 16-19 experience
their quality of life and to explore if there are any differences between the sexes.
The study was carried out at a high school in Sweden during January 2008 and is an
empirical, quantitative cross sectional study with a descriptive and comparative design. The
final sum of participants were 90, 47 girls and 43 boys. The authors used the Life Satisfaction
Questionnaire. The results of the study showed that the highest scores were found in physical
symptoms. The teenagers scored lowest in the everyday life’s fun and meaningful activities.
The result showed differences between the sexes, boys rated significantly higher quality of
life than girls in physical symptoms, whereas girls rated their quality of life significantly
higher in relations to family members and friends. The teenagers estimated their study result
and their ability to manage their studies as rather good, in these subjects, the girls rated
significantly higher scores than the boys. The majority of the students did not feel harassed. A
third of the adolescents stated that they had felt depressed in some degree or higher. In this
question, the boys rated significantly higher scores than the girls.
Keywords: Quality