Socio-Emotional Health of Secondary School Students

The article deals with the subject of students’ mental health, which has been so relevant in  recent years. It is based on Furlong’s concept and theory of socio-emotional health. We tried to discover relations between dimensions and their indicators of socio-emotional health and subjective happiness with orientation to Slovak secondary school students. We used the Social-Emotional Health Survey questionnaire, version for adolescents (SEHS-S), and our results solidly confirmed a positive relationship between experiencing happiness and dimensions of socio-emotional health.

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