A comparison of Austrian and Slowakian youth subjective well-being

Slowakian and Austrian high school students' well-being was measured with a modified version of the Grob et al.'s (1991) questionnaire. The comparison groups (each N = 145) were controlled for gender, town size, and age (16 and 17 years old). The Slowakian and the Austrian students did not differ in their life satisfaction nor in their actual psychic problems and physic complaints. Only, the Slowakian 17 years old students reported more habitual complaints than the Austrian 17 years old students. On the contrary, a clear difference was found for self worth to the disadvantage of the Slowakian. For the well-being's prediction was gender equally important in both countries. The girls compared with the boys reported less life satisfaction, more actual psychic problems, and more actual physic complaints. Results are interpreted as evidence for the hypothesis of no socialisation-caused well-being differences between the youth of both countries.