Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XIII, no. 2/2015, pp. 5-27.
Participarea adolescenţilor şi bunăstarea lor subiectivă: o comparaţie între Brazilia, Chile, Spania şi România
Adolescent’s Participation and their Subjective Well-Being: a Comparison between Brazil, Chile, Spain and Romania
Brîndușa Grigoraș*, Jaime Alfaro**, Jorge Sarriera***, Livia Bedin****, David Sirlopu*****, Ferran Casas******, Sergiu Bălțătescu*******
* Universitatea „Babeş Bolyai”, B dul 21 Dec. 1989, Nr. 128, Cluj Napoca, România. E mail: brindusa_
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** Universitatea din Desarrollo, Chile. UDD Santiago, Av. Plaza 700, San Carlos de Apoquindo, Las Condes. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
*** Universitatea Federală din Rio Grande do Sul, Brazilia. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
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**** Universitatea din Desarrollo, Chile. UDD Concepción, Av. Ainavillo 456, Concepción. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
***** Universitatea din Girona, Spania. Departament de Psicologia. Universitat de Girona. Pl. S. Domènec, 9. 17071- Girona. Spain. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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Brîndușa Grigoraș, Jaime Alfaro, Jorge Sarriera, Livia Bedin, David Sirlopu, Ferran Casas and Sergiu Bălțătescu. Participarea adolescenţilor şi bunăstarea lor subiectivă: o comparaţie între Brazilia, Chile, Spania şi România. Sociologie Românească XIII(2):5-27, 2015. BibTeX
@article{RN1753, author = "Grigoraș, Brîndușa and Alfaro, Jaime and Sarriera, Jorge and Bedin, Livia and Sirlopu, David and Casas, Ferran and Bălțătescu, Sergiu", title = "Participarea adolescenţilor şi bunăstarea lor subiectivă: o comparaţie între Brazilia, Chile, Spania şi România", journal = "Sociologie Românească", volume = "XIII", number = 2, pages = "5-27", issn = "1220-5389", year = 2015, type = "Journal Article" }
Abstract: Adolescents’ participation in all the matters that affect them has great importance for their life and well-being. Just a few studies explore adolescents’ social participation and even less address the link between adolescents’ participation and their subjective well-being (SWB). This article explores adolescents’ perceptions on their participation in family, school, and community and its’ relationship with their SWB measured by four psychometric scales: OLS, SLSS5, BMSLSS and PWI-SC5. Data have been collected within International Survey of Children’s Well-Being-ISCWeB (the fi rst international extended pilot 2011-2012) from four samples of adolescents (M=12,1, SD=0,68): Brazil, Chile, Romania and Spain. Descriptive and exploratory analyzes were performed using independent sample ‘t’ test in order to examine mean scores of the SWB indicators by gender in the four countries and Pearson Chi-Square to test gender differences between the group of adolescents who perceive they are listened by adults and the group with nonparticipation. The relationship between adolescents’ perception on participation in family, school and community, gender and their SWB was explored by analysis of variance (ANOVA). The results indicated that greater perceived participation of adolescents aged 12 is signifi cantly associated with higher subjective well-being. Variations between countries in SWB in the way that adolescent’s perceive their participation and also between boys and girls were found. The results are discussed with focus on the implementation of children’s rights and programs which enables adolescents’ participation in the contexts of their life and also on the need to improve policies for children and adolescents.
Keywords: adolescents; participation in life contexts; subjective well-being; cross-country; research; gender.
Cuvinte-cheie: adolescenţi; participare în contexte de viaţă; bunăstare subiectivă; cercetare comparativă internaţională; gen.