1. Full name of doctoral candidate: Nguyen Thi Hong 2. Gender: Female
3. Date of birth: December 8, 1986 4. Place of birth: Hanoi
5. Decision No. 1745/2017/QD-XHNV dated July 13, 2017, of the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, recognizing the doctoral student.
6. Changes in the training process: adjustment of the doctoral dissertation title according to Decision No. 455/QD-XHNV dated March 30, 2020.
7. Thesis title: “The relationship between the exercise of middle school students' right to participation in school and their sense of happiness.”
8. Major: Psychology 9. Code: 62 31 04 01
10. Scientific supervisor: Assoc. Prof., Dr. Phan Thi Mai Huong
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Sinh Phuc
11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:
(1) The thesis has systematized theories on children's happiness in the world and added to the theoretical research system that is only just beginning to be studied in Vietnam in recent years. A review of studies on the relationship between the exercise of children's right to participation in school and their happiness shows that there have been some studies on this issue in the world. The research results all suggest that children's participation is related to children's happiness. However, these studies have not addressed the exercise of children's right to participation in relation to their happiness at school as well as their general happiness in life.
The concept of students' happiness is considered on two levels: (1) children's general happiness is approached according to the theoretical model of Diener and colleagues including: life satisfaction, many positive emotions and few negative emotions (2) school satisfaction.
The theoretical model of this thesis is built upon the relationship between the realization of children's right to participation in school and children's sense of happiness. This relationship is a close connection between actions and behaviors that realize regulations on children's right to participation in school and the subjective positive psychological state of children, manifested in the experience of positive emotions significantly outweighing negative emotions, and satisfaction with life in general, and with school in particular, in some way.
Building upon and systematizing research from around the world and in Vietnam, the perception of happiness is defined as experiencing many positive emotions, few negative emotions, and satisfaction with school (three-component happiness) and overall satisfaction with school. Factors such as teacher support, peer support, and the student's personal characteristics also influence their perception of happiness at school.
The thesis highlighted research trends regarding children's and students' participation in school activities. The majority of studies showed that children's participation influences their sense of happiness.
In practice
- The implementation of students' right to participation in schools is still limited, mainly at the level of providing information. Participation in activities or expressing opinions remains very restricted. This affects students' sense of happiness when participating in activities that exercise their right to participation at school, and the relationship between these two aspects.
- The research results also show that exercising students' right to participate in school brings them many positive emotions when they participate.
- There is a correlation between children's participation rights in middle school and their sense of happiness, however, the correlation is moderate to weak.
- There is no difference in the correlation between the realization of children's participation rights and feelings of happiness at school and overall happiness in life.
- Factors related to school (teachers, friends, learning attitudes, etc.) are significantly more predictive of feelings of happiness at school.
- Students' sense of happiness at school depends on many different factors, and the realization of children's right to participation is just one of the factors influencing students' sense of happiness.
- Practical research results reveal a very interesting aspect: exercising the right to participation does not directly have a significant impact on students' feelings of happiness at school. However, the research indicates that mediating factors, along with children's exercise of the right to participation, such as self-assessment, recognition, and support from teachers and peers, contribute to a greater sense of overall happiness in life and at school.
- There was no difference in perceived happiness when exercising the right to participation in school between students in public and private schools.
12. Practical applications:
The research findings of this thesis can be used as a useful reference for researchers in child psychology, children's rights, and some applicable content in schools to help children be happier at school.
13. Future research directions:
- The research results also open up a new research approach to students' perceptions of happiness in school, suggesting that the factors influencing this need to be considered in a more diverse and holistic way. This is because students' perceptions of happiness in school are influenced and governed by many different factors.
14. Published works related to the dissertation:
(1) Nguyen Thi Hong, Phan Thi Mai Huong (2021), “The impact of exercising the right to participate in school on the happiness perception of junior high school students”, Journal of Psychology (6), pp. 82 - 98.
(2) Nguyen Thi Hong (2020), “Emotional experiences about the implementation of children's right to participation at school”, Journal of Education and Society (5), pp. 417 - 421.
(3) Phan Thi Mai Huong, Nguyen Thi Hong (2020), “The relationship between exercising children's right to participation in school and emotional state after exercising the right to participation”, Proceedings of the international scientific conference “Psychology - Education for the development of happy students and schools”, University of Education Publishing House, pp. 293 - 301.
(4) Phan Thi Mai Huong, Nguyen Thi Hong (2020), “The relationship between exercising the right to participate in school and the feeling of happiness of junior high school students”, Proceedings of the international scientific conference “Psychology - Education for the development of happy students and schools”, University of Education Publishing House, pp. 307-316.
INFORMATION ON DOCTORAL THESIS
1. Full name: Nguyen Thi Hong 2. Sex: Female
3. Date of birth: 08/12/1986 4. Place of birth: Hanoi
5. Admission decision number: 1745/2017/QD – XHNV, July 13, 2017 by the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities.
6. Changes in academic process: Adjusting the title of doctoral thesis topic according to Decision No 455/QD-XHNV March 30, 2020.
7. Official thesis title: “The relationship between exercising the right of lower secondary students to participate in school and their feeling of happiness".
8. Major: Psychology 9. Code: 62 31 04 01
10. Supervisors: Associate Professor, Doctor. Phan Thi Mai Huong.
Professor, Doctor Nguyen Sinh Phuc
11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:
(1) The thesis has systematized the theories about the feeling of happiness of children in the world to supplement the theoretical research system that has only been at early steps in Vietnam in recent years.
The overall study on the researches on the relationship between the exercise of lower secondary school students' right to participate in schools and their feeling of happiness shows that there are several researches in the world on this issue. The research results all suggest that children's participation is linked to children's happiness. However, these researches have not mentioned the exercise of children's right to participate in relation to their feeling of happiness in school as well as their overall feeling of happiness in life.
The concept of students' feeling of happiness is considered on two aspects: (1) general feeling of happiness of children is approximate according to Diener and collaborators' theoretical model, including: satisfaction with life, more positive and less negative emotions and (2) satisfaction with school.
The theoretical model of the thesis is built upon the relationship between the exercise of the children's right to participate in school and the children's feeling of happiness.The relationship between the implementation of the children's right to participate at school and the feeling of children's happiness is the interconnected connection between the actions and acts that realizes the regulations on children's right to participate children in school and their subjective positive psychological state reflected in the experience of positive emotions weighing negative emotions and satisfaction with life in general, with school in particular in a way.
On the basis of inheritance and systematization of researches in the world and in Vietnam on feeling of happiness is experiencing more positive and less negative emotions and having satisfaction with school (3-composition-happiness) and overall satisfaction with school. Teachers' facilitation, support of friends and students' personal factors also affect their feeling of happiness at school.
The thesis has pointed out the research trends on the participation of children and students in school activities. Most of the results of researches show that children's participation affects children's feeling of happiness.
In practice
- The exercise of children's right to participate in schools is limited and mostly at only providing students with information. The content of the participating in activities or expressing opinions is also very limited. It affects the children's feelings of happiness when participating in activities to exercise the right to participate at school and the relationship between the two.
- Research results also show that exercising the right to participate of students in school brings them a lot of positive emotions when participating.
- There is a relationship between the exercise of children's rights to participate in secondary school and their feeling of happiness, however the relationship is at moderate and weak level;
- There is no difference in the level correlation between children's right to participate with feeling of happiness in school and general feeling of happiness in life;
- The groups of factors related to school (teachers, friends, study attitude etc.) have significantly higher prediction level for happiness in school;
- Student's feeling of happiness at school depends on many different factors, of which exercising children's right to participate is only one of the factors affecting students' feeling of happiness;
- Practical research results show a very interesting aspect that is exercising the right to participate does not have too much of a direct effect on students' feeling of happiness in school, but research results show the intermediating factors with the exercise of children's right to participate such as self-assessment, recognition and support from teachers and friends will help them gain the general feeling of happiness in life as well as improved happiness in school;
- There is no difference in feeling happiness when exercising the right to participate in schools between groups of students of public and private schools.
12. Practical applicability:
The research results of the thesis can be used as a useful reference for researchers in criminal psychology, forensic psychology, policy researchers, law enforcement officers. Ministry of State management of security and order, especially the regional police force to get more information and knowledge in order to take measures to further improve the adaptability to community reintegration of the acceptors completed the prison sentence. child psychology, children's rights and some things that can be applied at school to help children be happy when they go to school.
13. Further research directions:
Research results also open up a new research approach to students' feeling of happiness at school, in which the factoring factors need to be considered in a more diverse and comprehensive way because students' feeling of happiness in school are affected and influenced by many different factors.
14. Thesis-related publications:
(1) Nguyen Thi Hong, Phan Thi Mai Huong (2021), “Prediction of the practice of Children's right to participate in school on happiness of middle school students”, Vap Vietnameme Journal of Psychology (6), pp. 82 - 98.
(2) Nguyen Thi Hong (2020), “Experience the feeling of the implementation of the right to participation of children at school”, Journal of Education and Society (5), pp. 417 - 421.
(3) Phan Thi Mai Huong, Nguyen Thi Hong (2020), “The relationship between children participatory right and their emotional state after exercising their participatory right” Proceedings of the international scientific conference "Psychology - Education for the development of students and happy schools", University of Education Publishing House, pp. 293 - 301.
(4) Phan Thi Mai Huong, Nguyen Thi Hong (2020), “The relationship between participatory right at school and happy emotions of middle school students, Proceedings of the international scientific conference "Psychology - Education for the development of students and happy schools", University of Education Publishing House, pp. 307 - 316.
