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Pedagogical aspects of addiction prevention in an educational institution

Pedagogical discourse in the domain of addiction prevention is aimed at encouraging the development of self-respect, self-confidence and positive identity in a child. These qualities are considered to be the first ‘line of defence’ against various negative influences and a possible form of prevention of autoaggressive and socially unacceptable forms of behaviour. This view is …

Adolescents’ subjective well-being and their life expectations

The aim of this study was to investigate adolescents’ subjective well-being as well as to explore relations between well-being indicators and life expectations. The total of 158 high-school students participated in the study. Depressive symptoms, life satisfaction, self-esteem and life expectations were examined by the use of self-report measures. The results have shown that boys …