Pac Early Child Educ Res Assoc 2016
DOI: 10.17206/apjrece.2016.10.2.47
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A Study on What Makes Young Children Happy

Abstract: The purposes of this research were to understand children's perception of happiness and to propose suggestions for improving the level of happiness based on children's needs by analyzing individual interviews about what makes them happy and why. The subjects of the study were 163 children aged three to five at two kindergartens and one daycare center in Seoul, South Korea. Research results were as follows. First, they indicated living things (human, animal, plant) and inanimate things (plaything, school supply… Show more

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“…According to the results of the study, the children described the concept of happiness as the most of joy, having fun, being loved, loving, being together with their loved ones. Studies in the literature support this finding (Ünüvar et al, 2015;Hong, Kim and Jeun, 2016;Tobin, 2014). From these answers, it was evaluated that children pointed out the elements of moral in the definitions of happiness.…”
Section: Discussion Conclusion and Recommendationsmentioning
confidence: 77%
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“…According to the results of the study, the children described the concept of happiness as the most of joy, having fun, being loved, loving, being together with their loved ones. Studies in the literature support this finding (Ünüvar et al, 2015;Hong, Kim and Jeun, 2016;Tobin, 2014). From these answers, it was evaluated that children pointed out the elements of moral in the definitions of happiness.…”
Section: Discussion Conclusion and Recommendationsmentioning
confidence: 77%
“…The data of the study consisted of five open-ended questions which were determined to be appropriate for the purpose of the study. The theoretical knowledge about happiness (Diener, 1984;Myers and Diener 1995;Ryff, 1989;Seligman, 2012) and the researches about the happiness of children were examined in determining open-ended questions (Hong, Ra and Jang, 2015;Hong, Kim and Jeun, 2016;Ocak-Karabey and Güzeldere-Aydın, 2017;Ünüvar et al, 2015).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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