Subjective Well-being and Life Values: Their Relations and
Differences among Czech, Maltese, South African, Indian, and
New Zealand University Students

k 2015

Subjective Well-being and Life Values: Their Relations and Differences among Czech, Maltese, South African, Indian, and New Zealand University Students

ČEJKOVÁ, Eliška, Alena SLEZÁČKOVÁ, Carmel CEFAI, Johan POTGIETER, Kamlesh SINGH et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Subjective Well-being and Life Values: Their Relations and Differences among Czech, Maltese, South African, Indian, and New Zealand University Students

Authors

ČEJKOVÁ, Eliška (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Alena SLEZÁČKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Carmel CEFAI (470 Malta), Johan POTGIETER (710 South Africa), Kamlesh SINGH (356 India), Rajneesh CHOUBISA (356 India), Aaron JARDEN (554 New Zealand), Fiona HOWARD (554 New Zealand) and Štěpánka DVOŘÁKOVÁ (756 Switzerland)

Edition

Sociální procesy a osobnost 2015, Brno, 9.-11.9.2015, 2015

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/15:00083798

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

subjective well-being; life values; cross-culture study; university students

Abstract

V originále

According to the World Database of Happiness (Veenhoven, 2013) New Zealand and Malta are among the happiest countries, whereas Czech Republic, South Africa and India belong to middle ranking countries. In our study we explore links between life values and subjective well-being among university students from five countries. Our sample consists of 165 Czech, 115 Maltese, 110 South African, 168 Indian and 131 New Zealand respondents (69% females, 31 % males, mean age 21.3). We measured life satisfaction (SWLS, Diener et al., 1985) and life values (VLQ, Wilson et al., 2002). Online data collection took place in 2012-2014. We used SPPS for data analysis. Results show no significant differences between life satisfaction (LS) of Czech, Maltese, Indian, and New Zealand students. LS is significantly higher only in South African students. Their LS is associated with perceived importance of life values Marriage and Citizenship and personal satisfaction with value Career. The importance of life values Family and Friends are closely linked with LS of Czech, Maltese and New Zealand respondents. Importance of value Citizenship significantly correlates with LS only in Indian and South African samples. Detailed analysis revealed further results on links between life values and well-being based on cross-cultural differences.

Citovat

ČEJKOVÁ, Eliška, Alena SLEZÁČKOVÁ, Carmel CEFAI, Johan POTGIETER, Kamlesh SINGH, Rajneesh CHOUBISA, Aaron JARDEN, Fiona HOWARD and Štěpánka DVOŘÁKOVÁ. Subjective Well-being and Life Values: Their Relations and Differences among Czech, Maltese, South African, Indian, and New Zealand University Students. In Sociální procesy a osobnost 2015, Brno, 9.-11.9.2015. 2015.

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ČEJKOVÁ, Eliška, Alena SLEZÁČKOVÁ, Carmel CEFAI, Johan POTGIETER, Kamlesh SINGH, Rajneesh CHOUBISA, Aaron JARDEN, Fiona HOWARD and Štěpánka DVOŘÁKOVÁ. Subjective Well-being and Life Values: Their Relations and Differences among Czech, Maltese, South African, Indian, and New Zealand University Students. In \textit{Sociální procesy a osobnost 2015, Brno, 9.-11.9.2015}. 2015.

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