Examining the effectiveness of subjective well-being enhancement program developed for primary school students

The aim of the study is to examine the effect of the subjective well-being enhancement program prepared for primary school students on the subjective well-being levels of primary school students. The research was carried out with 28 students studying in the 4th grade in a primary school in Nallıhan district of Ankara. In the research, firstly, the "Subjective Well-Being Scale at School for Primary School Students", which is used as a data collection tool, was applied to 62 students, and the 28 students with the lowest scores from the scale were determined and the members determined by the one-to-one matching method were assigned to the experimental and control groups. Subjective well-being increasing psyco-education program for primary school students for 10 sessions was applied to the experimental group, and no application was made to the control group. Mann Whitney U and Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test were used in the analysis to determine whether there was a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test total scores of the students subjective well-being levels in the experimental and control groups. As a result of the analysis, it was found that there was a significant difference in favor of the experimental group between the subjective well-being level post-test total scores of the control and experimental groups. In addition, it was observed that there was a significant difference between the subjective well-being level pre-test and post-test total scores of the experimental group. However there was no significant difference between the subjective well-being level pre-test and post-test total scores of the individuals in the control group who did not receive any program. According to these results, it can be stated that the subjective well-being enhancement program for primary school students is effective in increasing the subjective well-being levels. The research findings were discussed on the basis of the findings of previous studies in the literature, and suggestions were made for future studies in this direction.