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Souvislosti osobní pohody a životních hodnot u vysokoškolských studentů: mezinárodní srovnání souborů z České republiky, Indie, Nového Zélandu a Jihoafrické republiky
| Title in English | A Link between Well-being and Life Values among University Students: Cross-cultural Comparison of Czech, Indian, New Zeland, and South African Samples |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
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| Description | The study is part of an international project Social Capital and Well-being (SoCaWe) that focuses on research of well-being, social capital and life values. The main objective is to compare the well-being of respondents from four different countries with various cultural backgrounds, and to reveal the relationships of life values with subjective well-being, both its cognitive (life satisfaction) as well as emotional (frequency and intensity of experienced happiness) dimensions. Another goal is to reveal relationships between discrepancy of life values (i.e. the difference between the importance and the satisfaction with value) with the level of life satisfaction and happiness. The research sample consisted of 574 undergraduate students from four countries: Czech Republic (N = 165), India (N = 168), New Zealand (N = 131) and South Africa (N = 110). Data were collected using an anonymous online questionnaire in 2012 and 2013. The methods used were The Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener et al., 1985), The Valued Living Questionnaire (Wilson, 2010), and The Happiness Measures (Fordyce, 1988). The results show that the level of life satisfaction in Czech, Indian and New Zealand students does not significantly differ. Life satisfaction is significantly higher in South African students. Respondents from South Africa also experience the highest frequency of happiness, while Indian students experience happiness most intensively. Detailed analysis revealed culturally specific links and differences in subjective well-being and life values. |