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The Subjective Well-Being of School Children. The First Findings from the Children’s Worlds Study in Poland

Bibliographic Data

ID12959271
AuthorsDorota Strózik (0000-0002-5907-216X, Poznań University of Economics and Business, corresponding author), Tomasz Strózik (0000-0001-8692-5212, Poznań University of Economics and Business), Krzysztof Szwarc (0000-0002-2502-1401, Poznań University of Economics and Business)
Year2015
Volume9
Issue1
Pages39-50
Publication date2015-03-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueChild Indicators Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1874-8988 • E-ISSN: 1874-897X
PublisherSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s12187-015-9312-8
PMID26925176
OpenAlexW1982498532
LanguageEN
Citations received32
References cited20

The paper presents the first findings of the children's subjective well-being survey in Poland, which was conducted among representative sample of over 3000 pupils aged 8, 10 and 12 years from Wielkopolska region in spring 2014. The study is a part of International Survey of Children's Well-being (ISCWeB) - Children's Worlds, developed by the International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI). The main purpose of the ISCWeB project is to gain a broad knowledge of children's lives, their relationships with family members and friends, daily activities, time use and, in particular, their own perceptions and evaluations of their well-being. A particular attention in this paper is paid to the children's subjective well-being including overall satisfaction with life, measured with use of different psychometric scales, eg. the single item scale on Overall Life Satisfaction (OLS) or the five-item Students Life Satisfaction Scale (SLSS5). Along with overall well-being of the children, it is very important to study various domains of their well-being. In the paper we took into consideration children's evaluation of their five important life domains: family, school, friends, living environment and self

Developmental psychology · Early childhood education · Geography · Happiness · Life satisfaction · Perception · Public health · Quality of Life Research · Sample (material · Scale (ratio · Subjective well-being · Well-being · Family Support in Illness · Medicine · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology

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Citations per year2,91
Citation span2015 - 2026 (12)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
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