Structure of Subjective Well-being of Primary-School-Age Orphan Children with Disabilities Living in Orphanage Institutions and of Children Deprived of Parental Care

Abstract

The article presents the results of the study of the level and features of the structure of subjective well-being of orphans with disabilities aged 7 to 12 compared with conditionally healthy children. Within the limits of research, under the subjective well-being of the child the satisfaction (level of satisfaction) "system of the relations" to itself, others, with environment is considered. The study is based on a theoretical construct, an operational model, and a toolkit for studying subjective well-being in orphans and children without parental care, the validity of which has been proven on the basis of empirical research on this category of children. The analysis of the results showed that the structure of subjective well-being depends on the presence or absence of disabilities in orphans of primary school age, but at the same time, the presence of disabilities by itself, without taking into account the relationship with other components, is not reflected in the level of their subjective well-being.