INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL STATUS AND MATERIALISTIC VALEUS ON SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING IN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Abstract
This paper presents research in which were - on the sample of 395 students from different types of high school - tested hypothesis about relations among social status, type of high school, materialistic values and subjective well-being. The results reveal that social status considerably determinates the type of attended high school - students of grammar schools come from families with the highest social status, apprenticeship pupils come from families with the lowest social status.
The higher social status of a family, the less the student is materialistic, so the most materialistic are the apprenticeship pupils, the least materialistic are the grammar school students. At the same time materialism correlates with subjective well-being negatively and the higher social status of a family, the more the students are satisfied with their life.
So, the most satisfied with their life are the grammar school students, the least satisfied are the apprenticeship pupils.