An Experience of Applying Methods of StudyingSubjective Well-being in Sociological Research
This article describes the experience of studying factors influencing the social well-being of educational migrants as measured by means of a psychological well-being scale (A. Perrudet-Badoux, G.A. Mendelsohn, J. Chiche, 1988), previously adapted for Russian by M. V. Sokolova. A statistical analysis of the scale’s reliability is performed. Trends in dynamics of subjective well-being are identified on the basis the correlations analysis between the conditions of adaptation and its success rate, and potential mechanisms for developing subjective well-being among student migrants living in student hostels are described. Particular attention is paid to commuting as a factor of adaptation.