The sense of welfare in Polish families
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Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki Euroregionalnej
im. Alcide De Gasperi w Józefowie
Publication date: 2014-03-31
JoMS 2014;20(1):31-47
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ABSTRACT
Welfare is the subjective sense of satisfaction with life and can be defined
in different ways. It is satisfaction with life dependent on success in
family life, work, the approval of other people, opportunities for development,
and many other factors.
Mental welfare can be defined as the cognitive and emotional assessment
of our own lives. This assessment includes both cognitive judgments
of the sense of satisfaction and fulfillment, as well as emotional reactions to
various events. Mental well-being includes three components: life satisfaction,
positive affect and negative affect.
Life satisfaction should be analyzed in specific dimensions of life such
as health, family, work and considered as a cognitive component, which is
based on the beliefs (attitudes) about the life of the individual human being.
Positive and negative affect is used to calculate the intensity of pleasant
and unpleasant feelings experienced by people throughout their life.
This study presents the results of research concerning adolescents’
satisfaction with life, the inner satisfaction of their own attractiveness,
interpersonal relationships, a sense of life. As a research technique used
was a questionnaire, and it was carried out in four secondary schools in
Warsaw in spring of 2012. The study involved 354 students aged 12-15. The
survey was varied in form (partially structured) and included questions
concerning the life style, material status, relations with friends and adults,
addictions, domestic violence and violence in the adolescent group.