Is Being" Smart and Well Behaved" a Recipe for Happiness in Western Australian Primary Schools?

Little is known about the relationship between students’ perceptions of their behaviour and intellectual status within the classroom and their happiness. Educational practitioners consistently confront misbehaviour and academic failure; whether this is an indicator of student happiness is unclear. I...

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Main Authors: O Rourke, J., Cooper, Martin, Gray, C.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49909
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description Little is known about the relationship between students’ perceptions of their behaviour and intellectual status within the classroom and their happiness. Educational practitioners consistently confront misbehaviour and academic failure; whether this is an indicator of student happiness is unclear. In this exploratory research two hundred and fifty six students were asked to self-rate their happiness via a faces scale. These students also completed a self-concept scale focussed on behavioural adjustment and intellectual and school status to determine whether these were factors that impacted on their happiness. Additionally, parents and teachers rated the participant’s happiness. The findings of this research indicate that the students’ perceptions of their behaviour and academic capability accounted for variance in their self-rated happiness. Both sub-scales accounted for more variance in the students’ self-reported happiness than the teachers’ and parents’ ratings. The findings of this research are consistent with the few previous studies that attribute social factors such as belonging to childhood happiness.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-499092017-09-13T15:49:10Z Is Being" Smart and Well Behaved" a Recipe for Happiness in Western Australian Primary Schools? O Rourke, J. Cooper, Martin Gray, C. Little is known about the relationship between students’ perceptions of their behaviour and intellectual status within the classroom and their happiness. Educational practitioners consistently confront misbehaviour and academic failure; whether this is an indicator of student happiness is unclear. In this exploratory research two hundred and fifty six students were asked to self-rate their happiness via a faces scale. These students also completed a self-concept scale focussed on behavioural adjustment and intellectual and school status to determine whether these were factors that impacted on their happiness. Additionally, parents and teachers rated the participant’s happiness. The findings of this research indicate that the students’ perceptions of their behaviour and academic capability accounted for variance in their self-rated happiness. Both sub-scales accounted for more variance in the students’ self-reported happiness than the teachers’ and parents’ ratings. The findings of this research are consistent with the few previous studies that attribute social factors such as belonging to childhood happiness. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49909 10.5539/ijps.v4n3p139 Canadian Center of Science and Education restricted
spellingShingle O Rourke, J.
Cooper, Martin
Gray, C.
Is Being" Smart and Well Behaved" a Recipe for Happiness in Western Australian Primary Schools?
title Is Being" Smart and Well Behaved" a Recipe for Happiness in Western Australian Primary Schools?
title_full Is Being" Smart and Well Behaved" a Recipe for Happiness in Western Australian Primary Schools?
title_fullStr Is Being" Smart and Well Behaved" a Recipe for Happiness in Western Australian Primary Schools?
title_full_unstemmed Is Being" Smart and Well Behaved" a Recipe for Happiness in Western Australian Primary Schools?
title_short Is Being" Smart and Well Behaved" a Recipe for Happiness in Western Australian Primary Schools?
title_sort is being" smart and well behaved" a recipe for happiness in western australian primary schools?
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49909