Children's subjective well-being in relation to gender — What can we learn from dissatisfied children?

The relation of social skills and school climate of diversity to children's life satisfaction: The mediating role of school connectedness

“…This indicates social skills and school connectedness are similarly predictive of LS for boys and girls. Prior studies have suggested that interpersonal relationships are more strongly related to girls' LS than boys (Kaye-Tzadok et al, 2017;Ma & Huebner, 2008;Suldo, McMahan, Chappel, & Loker, 2012), but the present study found that developing social skills is equally important for boys and girls in their feelings of connectedness to their schools and satisfaction with their lives. The current findings further suggest that bolstering school connectedness may equally benefit boys and girls for enhancing their LS.…”

“…(c) School connectedness would mediate the association between social skills and LS, as well as the association between SCD and LS. Given previous findings of gender differences in the paths leading to LS (e.g., Kaye-Tzadok, Kim, & Main, 2017;Liu, Mei, Tian, & Huebner, 2016), we also explored whether hypothesized paths were different for boys and girls.…”

Gender and Children’s Wellbeing: Four Mediterranean Countries in Perspective

“…Since children's gender is an uncontrolled characteristic, the fact that it is connected to children's wellbeing suggest conducting further investigations. For example, complementing the present results with data regarding children's subjective wellbeing could help to better understand the reasons behind such evidence, as previous studies have found a generally lower level of happiness for females compared to males (Kaye-Tzadok et al, 2017;Tarki, 2011).…”

“…In this framework, this paper aims to analyse children's wellbeing from a gender perspective at the family level. Previous studies have investigated the role that gender plays on children's subjective (Kaye-Tzadok et al, 2017) or objective (Modroño et al, 2013) wellbeing and on parents' wellbeing (Roeters and Gracia, 2016) by using data at the individual level. Specifically, in this paper, it is decided to group families in two manners: first, we investigate the intersection of single-parents' gender in relation to children's wellbeing; second, we investigate children's gender in a traditional family model in relation to children's wellbeing.…”

Hope, Material Resources, and Subjective Well‐Being of 8‐ to 12‐Year‐Old Children in Israel

“…Regarding gender, our findings do not provide an unambiguous trend regarding gender, as was reported by some authors (Huebner et al., ), but not by others (Bradshaw & Keung, ; Casas et al., ; Dinisman & Ben‐Arieh, ; Rees et al., ). Some recent studies have pointed that researchers might consider looking beyond gender differences by examining more subtle or refined trends such as differences in SWB according to different domains or according to differing contribution of various factors to SWB of each gender (see Kaye‐Tzadok, Kim, & Main, ).…”