Yuli Kurniawati Sugiyo Pranoto, FIP PAUD and Jianzhong Hong, - (2016) The Exploration into Happiness of Javanese Children Aged 4-6 Years Old. In: International Conference on Counsuling and Educational Psychology, 18 - 19 October 2016, Semarang.

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Abstract

Children’s happiness defined as the average satisfaction at certain period with certain frequencies of positive and negative affect. One of the most obvious questions in the literature over the last few years is the need for research on children happiness (Chaplin, 2009). Children happiness is unique due to different cognitive abilities and experiences. This current study responds to Chaplin (2009) and Thoiliez (2011) impetus to explore more about children perspective of happiness. The study conduct a qualitative to describes Javanese children’s happiness form perspective of children themselves. This research involves 183 Javanese children. This study clearly shows that Javanese children aged 4 – 6 have higher levels of life satisfaction. However, it is also the fact that some other children lie in the second to the sixth levels. This study can help parent and teacher or other educator who have concern on children’s development to build plan in promoting children’s happiness by focuses more on source of children’s happiness at different age and gender. Limitations and implications especially for education are included.

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