Gender And Life Satisfaction In The Czech Republic

• Authors: SANJOY KUMAR CHANDA
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Life satisfaction in its gender aspects opens up a new dimension in social research. This study starts with the research question of how life satisfaction and gender are associated with intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations. The questionnaire survey was used with 1821 respondents in the Czech Republic. The results show that it was in the 33-48 age range that the highest proportion of males, 59 per cent, expressed substantial life satisfaction, compared to the 18-32 age range for females (72 per cent). In addition, for males, a greater identification with life satisfaction is found for both intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations, whereas females represented this greater identification only in regard to intrinsic aspirations.

Keywords

EN

Czech Republic; extrinsic; gender; intrinsic; satisfaction

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 131-151

Dates

published

2014-12-01

online

2015-03-25

Contributors

author

SANJOY KUMAR CHANDA

• Sociology Department, Khulna University, Khulna 9208, Bangladesh

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/genst-2015-0010