A COMPARISON OF AUSTRIAN AND SLOWAKIAN YO UTH SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING

Slowakian and Austrian high school students' well-being was measured w ith 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 studen ts did not differ in their life satisfaction nor in their actual psych ic problems and physic complaints. Only, the Slowakian 17 years old st udents reported more habitual complaints than the Austrian 17 years ol d students. On the contrary, a clear difference was found for self wor th to the disadvantage of the Slowakian. For the well-being's predicti on was gender equally important in both countries. The girls compared with the boys reported less life satisfaction, more actual psychic pro blems, and more actual physic complaints. Results are interpreted as e vidence for the hypothesis of no socialisation-caused well-being diffe rences between the youth of both countries.