Control of private life and involvement in public life is regarded as an important condition of subjective well-being, especially for adolescents. A survey on control attributions was administered to 1,902 adolescents between the ages of 14 and 20 in Switzerland. The survey included a separate questionnaire designed to provide six measures of perceived quality of life. Subjects were instructed to imagine a concrete situation of an indicated kind and then to answer 12 questions. This process was repeated for a total of nine issues in the personal, interpersonal, and societal domains. The results revealed that subjects were most bothered by the future working place and personality development issues and least bothered by the issue of public youth projects. Money was the only issue that was more important to male adolescents than to females. Most adolescents reported feeling that they had control or participated in the control over the selected issues. As expected, general life satisfaction depended heavily on the feeling of control. This was found to be especially true for the issues of personal appearance, personality development, and friendship. Having no control over issues within the societal domain did not significantly affect the general satisfaction. (NB)