Research on The Actual Condition of Youth Happiness and Related Variables

The purpose of this study is to examine subjective happiness and student life satisfaction of children and adolescents.For this, 2,725 students from elementary school and middle school and high school in S city were surveyed.From the collected data, 2,528 data suitable for analysis were statistically processed using the SPSS 18.0 program.In order to determine the difference according to the general characteristics (Gender, school level) of the adolescents, the average value was verified.Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated to test the reliability of the measurement tool.The results of the analysis are as follows.First, there was a statistically significant difference in the subjective happiness of children and adolescents according to general characteristics (Gender, school grade).In comparison, male students and elementary students showed higher subjective happiness.Second, there were statistically significant differences in the student life satisfaction of children and adolescents according to general characteristics (Gender, school grade).By gender, male students were high in school life satisfaction, environmental life satisfaction, and self-satisfaction, and female students were high in friend life satisfaction.Overall, elementary school students had a high level of student life satisfaction at the school grade.This study is meaningful in that it examined the actual condition of subjective happiness of children and adolescents and school life satisfaction.