Tendencies of youth subjective wellbeing assessment in Lithuania : territorial approach

Abstract

This article represents perceptions of youths’ subjective wellbeing (further SWB) mainly focusing on the evaluations of their happiness and satisfaction with life. Youth SWB is an underdeveloped field of research in Lithuania. It is even more obvious that science lacks research on the SWB of young people based on a territorial approach. Youth SWB research are important because they not only reveal the aspects and problems of the current life of this social group, but also highlights the expectations, fears associated with the future.The research object–subjective wellbeing of youth. The aim of the articleis to reveal the attitudesand tendenciesof youth SWB in Lithuania by emphasizing territorial peculiarities.The data from European Social Survey Round 9 (2018) were used to assess youth SWB in Lithuaniaand compared with ESS Round 4 (2008). The sampleof the study is young people aged 15 to 29 years. There were used common research methods for this study: comparative analysis, statistical analysis, graphical representation.Research findings support previous scientific works results that youth perceive and value their SWB on the basis of a multiple factors, SWB evaluations differ according to specific age group. The results have shownthat the assessment of the SWB of youth following their age groupsis not very lowand territorial differences are not large.