Book of Abstracts

Well-being has been defined as the combination of feeling good and functioning well; the experience of positive emotions such as happiness and contentment as well as the development of one’s potential, having a sense of purpose, and experiencing positive relationships. It has become even more relevant in the face of the past pandemic, which, as the research shows, had a negative impact on students’ well-being in general. Thus, the aim of the article is to examine the post-pandemic situation, including the period of students returning to schools and emotions connected with their come-back. As the literature on the subject shows significant differences between boys and girls in terms of their perception of the world, the gender factor will be taken into consideration while assessing the students’ level of self-satisfaction with full-time education. The questionnaire implemented among the sixth form primary school students touched upon such issues as student-student and teacher-student relationship, lesson organization, materials used and a broadly-understood classroom management covering, among others, task discipline, behaviour control, and problem dealing strategies. The level of students’ (dis)satisfaction with the current situation has helped us to define problems that threaten their well-being, in line with preventive measures, as well as highlight the cases that prove a high level of contentment identified among the students in order to reinforce them, depending on gender