Preconceptions of Happiness and Satisfaction: The Perspective of Children from Czech Primary Schools

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.eriesjournal.com/index.php/eries/article/view/861" target="_blank" >https://www.eriesjournal.com/index.php/eries/article/view/861</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7160/eriesj.2023.160204" target="_blank" >10.7160/eriesj.2023.160204</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Preconceptions of Happiness and Satisfaction: The Perspective of Children from Czech Primary Schools

Original language description

The aim of this research was to determine what children aged 10?15 associate with happiness/satisfaction as well as to analyse which factors are related to their feelings of happiness and their evaluation of life satisfaction. A total of 954 children attending Czech primary schools from various socio-cultural backgrounds were surveyed using the incomplete sentence method. The levels of both their happiness and satisfaction were measured using the Subjective Happiness Scale and Students? Life Satisfaction Scale. The results indicate that the children considered themselves relatively happy and satisfied, and they understood happiness/satisfaction in terms of the concept of eudaimonia (personal growth, achievement of school goals, etc.). Happiness/satisfaction were indicated at a significantly lower level if the children did not feel accepted by their caregivers, described themselves as ?melancholic?, were raised in a single-parent family, or spent their childhood in institutional care. Further, as the children grew older, their happiness/satisfaction levels declined. Neither gender nor spirituality were found to predict happiness/satisfaction.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science

ISSN

2336-2375

e-ISSN

1803-1617

Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

128-139

UT code for WoS article

001036192500004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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