Friday, November 16, 2012

Chilean children are as happy as Swedish children !


It has always thought that living in Europe provides you socio-economic stability and their standard of living is way better than other continents as America or Africa, but having and enjoying all the facilities and amenities does not make you happy, do they?

Children who live in Sweden, the fourth happiest country of the World according to UN, are as happy as Chilean children. The study was headed by Los Andes University, together with Swedish and American researchers who evaluated the level of vital satisfaction among 729 Chilean children between 8 to 14 years old, from private, subsidized, and municipal schools; and the data of 623 Swedish students.

According to Lisa Clefberg, director of department the Psychology from the fore mentioned University, children’s opinions were recollected and evaluated into ten different areas of satisfaction: parents, friends, siblings, health, home, self-respect, school, teachers, cousins, and time of playing.

“The results are very impressive and strong. We thought the results of UN would reply on the Swedish Children too, but we found that they feel very unsatisfied in many aspects in comparison to the Chilean Children” tells Dr. Clefberg. For example, one of the aspects that shocked the psychology community was “siblings”, in which Chilean children obtained higher scores than their European pairs.   

What about you? What’s your opinion regarding this topic? Does the socio-economic stability have to do with the happiness of people? Feel free to comment.

In this link you will find a blog attached from the Austin Psychology and Assesment Center. They expand on the possible reasons in children from Netherlands (another European country) for being happy. 

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