INCIHUSA   20883
INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS HUMANAS, SOCIALES Y AMBIENTALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
What makes you happy? Appreciating the reason that arouse
Autor/es:
GRECO, CAROLINA; ISON, MIRTA SUSANA
Revista:
THE JOURNAL OF LATINO-LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Editorial:
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Referencias:
Lugar: Nebraska; Año: 2012
ISSN:
1549-9502
Resumen:
The aim of this empirical study was to explore Argentine children?s reasons for happiness. The sample included one hundred and twenty students between the ages of 7 and 9 (M = 8.03; DS =0.72), all of them attending one of the two Argentine public schools selected. The Face Scale was used to evaluate how children assess happiness and a focused interview was conducted to obtain children?s spontaneous verbal descriptions of what made them happy. A content analysis technique was then applied after the interviews. Most of the children reckoned that family as well as friendship were the main sources of happiness. They also mentioned different kinds of activities as sources of happiness, like school, recreation and leisure activities; and owning and playing with a pet. By drawing upon these results, this study attempts to contribute towards the understanding of children?s subjective well-being.