Preconceptions of Happiness and Satisfaction: The Perspective of Children from Czech Primary Schools

The aim of this research was to determine what children aged 10–15 associate with happiness/satisfaction as well analyse which factors are related their feelings happiness and evaluation life satisfaction. A total 954 attending Czech primary schools from various socio-cultural backgrounds were surveyed using the incomplete sentence method. levels both satisfaction measured Subjective Happiness Scale Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale. results indicate that considered themselves relatively happy satisfied, they understood in terms concept eudaimonia (personal growth, achievement school goals, etc.). Happiness/satisfaction indicated at a significantly lower level if did not feel accepted by caregivers, described ‘melancholic’, raised single-parent family, or spent childhood institutional care. Further, grew older, declined. Neither gender nor spirituality found predict happiness/satisfaction.