Poczucie sensu życia a subiektywna witalność i status socjoekonomiczny gimnazjalistów

• Authors: Zawadzka, Dorota , Korzycka, Magdalena

Abstracts

EN

The meaning of life is an incredibly important indicator of psychological health, deficit of which may lead to numerous disorders and a lack of motivation to face everyday-life difficulties. A subjective vitality was defined as a subjective experience of the full energy and liveliness. Taking into account the fact that the subjective vitality and material status of a family are incredibly important variables looked at in the studies on school children and youth, we decided to check their relationship with the concept of the meaning of life among the youth. The survey-based experiment was conducted in 2016 in the schools. There were 643 participants – students of the grades 1-3 of the secondary school (358 boys, and 285 girls). The analysis showed that the gender and the grade of the students did not significantly affect the perceived meaning of life. However, there was a significant difference in the vitality between boys and also the grade 1 students compared to the girls and the grade 3 students. Girls and the grade 3 students were more likely to describe their families as poor. There was a significant interaction between the average meaning of life and the level of vitality among the students. The regression analysis showed that an average level of the vitality increased the likelihood of a high meaning of life almost three fold [OR = 2,91], and a high level of the vitality of life increased the likelihood of a high meaning of life almost eight fold [OR = 7,71].

Keywords

EN

meaning of life; subjective vitality; socio-economic status

• Publisher: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej. Wydawnictwo APS
• Journal: Psychologia Wychowawcza
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 55(13)
• Pages: 70-82

Dates

published

2019-11-24

Contributors

author

Zawadzka, Dorota

author

Korzycka, Magdalena