Abstract
The specific situation of the Slovak Republic (SR), which was found five years after the fall of the Iron Curtain in Europe 20 years’ ago, determines the content of the present chapter. The first section describes the approach to the understanding of wellbeing in the Slovak research, including an attempt to contribute to the definition and measurement of wellbeing. The second part presents the results of the comparative research regarding wellbeing of Slovak youth in the first decade of the new Slovak Republic and the youth from three European countries – Switzerland, Austria and Germany. The third part compares wellbeing of selected groups with wellbeing values within the survey conducted since 2003 by European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) on representative samples of people from 28 EU countries, including Slovakia.
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The Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic had been two parts of a single country called Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1992.
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56 male, 80 female, mean age 16.4脑years.
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X = the score or mean to be converted, kmin = the minimum score possible on the scale, kmax = the maximum score possible on the scale.
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39 male, 58 female, mean age 17.8脑years.
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9 males, 543 females, mean age 39.5脑years.
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Džuka, J. (2015). Wellbeing in Slovakia. In: Glatzer, W., Camfield, L., Møller, V., Rojas, M. (eds) Global Handbook of Quality of Life. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9178-6_30
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