A Cross-Cultural Study of Happiness in Japanese, Finnish, and Mongolian Children: Analysis of the Sentence Completion Test.
A Cross-Cultural Study of Happiness in Japanese, Finnish, and Mongolian Children: Analysis of the Sentence Completion Test.
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日本、芬兰和蒙古儿童幸福感的跨文化研究：句子完成测试分析。
DOI：
10.1007/s12187-020-09776-y
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
2.8
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作者：
Ninomiya. Y.;Matsumoto;M.;Nomura;A.;Kemppinen;L.;Odgerel;D.;Keskinen;S.;Oyuntungalag;N.;Tsuboi;H.;Suzuki;N.;Hatagaki;C.;Fukui;Y.;& Morita;M.
儿童的幸福是世界各地需要解决的一个重要问题；然而，关于儿童如何定义幸福的研究有限。在这项研究中，我们对居住在不同国家的小学生进行了调查，并澄清了来自日本(n= = 474)、蒙古(n= 121)和芬兰(n= 247)的842名4-6年级儿童(平均年龄 11.01，SD= 1.05，有效率 = 97.34%)对幸福的背景定义。我们使用刺激句补全测验考察了儿童幸福感的定义。对于蒙古族儿童来说，幸福的主要特征是提到家庭关系。对于芬兰儿童来说，幸福似乎与自主参与事物、个人成就和成功有关。此外，日本儿童的幸福在很大程度上表现为愉快的经历与不愉快的经历。此外，日本的孩子经常提到“被骂”，他们的幸福感与学业成绩无关。我们的发现与塞利格曼(2012)将繁荣作为衡量幸福感的新标准的概念的要素一致。还有人提出，幸福的主要因素可能会因个人的国家和文化而异。
Children’s happiness is an important issue that needs to be addressed around the world; however, limited research has explored how children define happiness. In this study, we conducted a survey of elementary school children living in different countries and clarified the contextual definitions of happiness by a total of 842 children (Mean age = 11.01,SD= 1.05, effective rate = 97.34%) from Grades 4 to 6 living in Japan (n= 474), Mongolia (n= 121), and Finland (n= 247). We investigated the definition of children’s happiness using the stimulus sentence completion test. For Mongolian children, happiness was predominantly characterized by references to family relationships. For Finnish children, happiness appeared to be linked to autonomous involvement with things, personal achievement, and success. Furthermore, the happiness of Japanese children was largely characterized by pleasant versus unpleasant experiences. In addition, Japanese children often referred to “being scolded” and their happiness was not related to school success. Our findings concurred with the elements of Seligman’s (2012) concept of flourishing as a new criterion for judging well-being. It was also suggested that the dominant elements of happiness may differ depending on an individual’s country and culture.