Subjective Happiness in Nursing Students: An Exploratory Study

• Autor(a) principal: Candeias, Analisa
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Martins, Cristina, Encarnação, Paula, Esteves, Alexandra, Petronilho, Fernando
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.48492/servir0206.31199
• topic: felicidade; bem-estar psicológico; estudantes de enfermagem; happiness; psychological well-being; nursing students; felicidad; bienestar psicológico; estudiantes de enfermería

Introduction: Society has been giving high attention to happiness, being the focus of reflexion by several thinkers. Complementary to mental health, happiness becomes an indicator for the economic/social assessment of each country, because, more prosperous countries have more solid levels of happiness. Objective/s: Describe the level of subjective happiness of 1st year nursing students, at a higher education institution. Methods: Descriptive-exploratory, cross-sectional and quantitative study; convenience sample, consisting of 63 1st year nursing students from a higher education institution. Data collection established using an evaluation instrument constructed by the researchers, with two parts: i) aspects of sociodemographic characterization and ii) Subjective Happiness Scale. Results: 82,5% of the students is female, most (68,3%) live with their family during the week and consider themselves sociable (79,3%). The mean of subjective happiness is 4,6 (max=6,5, min=2,25; SD=1,003). Statistically significant differences were found between the affective-social situation and subjective happiness [F(3)=8,508; p<0,01]. Conclusion: Subjective happiness is evaluated with satisfactory values that may induce some concern and attention, in the sense of trying to define and implement intervention programs that promote high levels of happiness in this population of young adults.