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    Published: 2025-06-30
    Vol. 35 No. 1 (2025)

    Young Poles in search of happiness (reflections in the context of Generation Z)

    Katarzyna Piotrowska , Maria Sroczyńska
    Academic Journal of Sociology
    Section: Articles
    https://doi.org/10.21697/ucs.2025.35.1.05

    Abstract

    The issues addressed in this article focus on strategies for seeking happiness and ways of identifying it by young Poles belonging to Generation Z. The aim is to introduce the results of research relating to the apprehension and experience of happiness and the search for strategies to help achieve it. Despite numerous studies (including international ones) on axiological and normative issues related to youth, the category of happiness is one of those that does not appear very often in sociological researches. On the one hand, this is related to the transformation of “networked” Western societies, increasingly associated with a culture of risk, consumerism, and fatigue. On the other hand, it is related to the far-reaching individualization and analgesic nature of individual experiences, which distract from the experience of pain, but also from true joy and the meaning of life. The article mainly refers to quantitative research (existing data). Qualitative data is also cited, including the absorbing results of a focus group interview on the post-pandemic condition of university students, as well as a research survey on identified and experienced happiness.

    Keywords:

    happiness, well-being, difficulties in achieving happiness, generation Z

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    Piotrowska, K., & Sroczyńska, M. (2025). Young Poles in search of happiness (reflections in the context of Generation Z). Academic Journal of Sociology, 35(1), 35–53. https://doi.org/10.21697/ucs.2025.35.1.05

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