Abstract:

The purpose of the study is to determine whether the subjective well-being levels of the students who were attending to vocational schools vary in terms of their internship, class and gender. Within the framework of this goal whether the level of subjective well-being of vocational high school students changed according to their gender, training status and the professional field were investigated. High-school version of subjective well-being scale is 37-item scale which consists of personal judgments and positive and negative statements that affect an individual’s life satisfaction. A number of 200 vocational high school students in the centre of Kuşadası, which is a town of Aydın, participated in this present study in 2009-2010 academic year. The data were analyzed by using t-test and ANOVA. The results did not indicate significant differences in students’ level of subjective well-being in terms of gender; however, there were significant differences in terms of their training status and class levels. If it is made possible for the adolescents to be happy by training them to be well and to feel well during their education, the infrastructure will have been prepared for their being successful in both school life and business life. This study aims to focus on identifying such problems and providing concrete suggestions to them. Keywords: Subjective well-being, life satisfaction, school life.

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