Appreciation and Subjective Well-Being: A Quantitative Research on Juvenile Driven into Delinquency

Journal Title: Journal of the Human and Social Science Researches - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 4

Abstract

The aim of study is to identify and describe the relation between appreciation and subjective well-being of the juvenile driven into delinquency. It has been investigated if it changes or not according to the variables like age, educational status of parents, whether having friends in the institutions or not, the circumstance of using drugs, duration of staying in prison. The sample consists of 124 boys - acknowledged as children by the judicial institutions- between the ages of 14-18 who stay in Ankara Sincan Juvenile Penal Execution Institution. The Appreciation Scale and Subjective Well-being Scale have been applied. It has been seen that the children indicate high-average in the extent of “comparative appreciation”, “worshipping appreciation” and “appreciation intended for materialistic ownership”; juvenile who haven’t got friends in prison value their social environment more and it has been seen that there are significant relations in positive meaning between appreciation and subjective well-being.

Authors and Affiliations

Gülüşan GÖCEN| Yrd. Doç. Dr., İstanbul Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi gulusangocen@gmail.com

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Gülüşan GÖCEN (2016). Appreciation and Subjective Well-Being: A Quantitative Research on Juvenile Driven into Delinquency. Journal of the Human and Social Science Researches, 5(4), 966-990. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-2655