Browsing by Subject "ongelmallinen käyttäytyminen"

Objectives Positive life attitude is known to be positively correlated with physical health and longevity, and positive emotions are important to wellbeing and optimal functioning. However, only little is known how early factors in childhood and youth are associated to positive life attitude in adulthood. The aim of this study was to study whether perinatal risk factors, cognitive capacity in childhood and problem behavior in youth are associated with positive life attitude in adulthood at the age of 40. Methods The original subject group consisted of children born between 1971–1974 at Kätilöopisto hospital in Helsinki with perinatal risk factors and control subjects with no perinatal risk factors. The data of present study consisted of 226 subjects from which 180 had perinatal risk factors and 46 subjects was in the control group. Positive life attitude was studied via thriving, gratitude, curiosity and life satisfaction. Perinatal risk factors were studied via primary perinatal risk factor that were: hyperbilirubinemia, low Apgar scores, low birth weight and other risk factor group. The other risk factor group was included maternal diabetes, hypoglycemia, neurological symptoms and respiratory problems. Cognitive capacity in childhood was studied in the age of nine, and externalizing and internalizing problem behavior in the age of 16 via ratings of parents and youth. Results and conclusions In this study the other perinatal risk factor group and low birthweight were negatively explaining gratitude. Childhood cognitive capacity was positively explaining thriving and satisfaction with life but were explained by own educational level. Especially internalizing behavior of problem behavior in youth was negatively explaining thriving, gratitude and life satisfaction. The variables in this study were explaining 13 % of thriving, 17 % of gratitude, 10 % of life satisfaction, but the 2 % explained proportion of curiosity was statistically insignificant.