Subjective Well-Being of Youth: Potential of State Youth Policy

Abstract

—The relevance of studying the issues of the well-being of youth is due to the overheating of the economy, changes in the characteristics of youth. The young people’s vision of their future demonstrates their confidence in it, satisfies with the conditions of their own development and feels safe. The real situation requires monitoring to address youth problems, which affecting the well-being and national security of the country. Objective: to study some indicators of the subjective well-being of youth and the capabilities of the youth policy system to improve the quality of life of young people. The research methodology consists in the integrated application of the anthropological, ontological and axiological approaches. In the course of the work, the following methods were used: statistical, analysis of documents, survey and comparative analysis of data from an empirical study. The results of the study showed that the state youth policy has a significant potential to improve the quality of life of young people, to increase the level of subjective well-being of youth. The theoretical and practical significance of the study lies in the fact that its results can be used to specify the philosophical and anthropological problems associated with the study of the subjective well-being of youth, as well as in the development and implementation of social technologies, their scientifically based recommendations for the implementation of youth policy in schools and in organizations.