Family, School, and Community Correlates of Children’s Subjective Well-being: An International Comparative Study

Lee, Bong Joo; Yoo, Min Young

doi:10.1007/s12187-014-9285-z

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“…Family relationships are those with the highest contribution to the prediction of child well-being for both countries, corroborating with the literature (Lee & Yoo, 2015). In the family, the first affect relationships are developed (Olszewski-Kubilius, Lee, & Thomson, 2014).…”

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“…Cross-cultural differences are also identified in other studies (Casas, Tiliouine, & Figuer, 2014;Lee & Yoo, 2015;Montserrat et al, 2015;Ximenes, Assis, Pires, & Avanci, 2013 while the Spanish HDI was 0.869 (27 th country). This difference between the development of countries may be reflected in children, influencing child well-being and other variables evaluated in the study.…”

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“…Apart from these countries, the Spanish children also exceeded the average well-being of children from Algeria, Chile, Romania and South Korea (Lee & Yoo, 2015). In the study of Sarriera et al (2015), Spanish children had the second highest well-being mean, exceeding Uganda, Algeria, South Africa, Brazil, South Korea and England,…”

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“…This difference between the development of countries may be reflected in children, influencing child well-being and other variables evaluated in the study. Similar index was used in the study of Lee and Yoo (2015), the authors used the public expenditure ratio with education, child mortality and measures of inequality between countries. Their results points to higher investment in education in Brazil, but in Spain the infant mortality rates and inequalities were lower.…”

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Subjective well-being and personal relationships in childhood: Comparison of Brazilian and Spanish children

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This study aims to compare personal relationships satisfaction and subjective well-being of Brazilian and Spanish children and to verify if personal relationships are associated with subjective well-being for the sample. Participants are 6,747 children aged from 11 to 14 years old (M = 12.07, DP = 0.731), 1,020 being Brazilian and the others Spanish. From the total sample 50.7% were girls. Results pointed that the items of personal relationships are grouped into three components related to family, school and friends. Spanish children had higher means than Brazilians' in the items of personal relationships and in the subjective well-being scale. There is a significant association between personal relationships and subjective well-being, and the relationships with family, school and friends are predictors of children well-being in both countries. Family relationships are those with the highest contribution to the prediction of child well-being for both countries, followed by relationships at school and with friends. Personal relationships can be considered a predictor of child well-being with approximately 40% of explained variance for both countries.

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“…Empirical evidence has shown that deprivation is a better indicator of child well-being than traditional child poverty measures (Bradshaw and Finch 2003;G o s w a m i 2014;M a i na n dP o p l e2012). It is recognised that it is important to incorporate children's perspectives into studies of child poverty and child well-being to increase the creditability of the findings (Lee and Yoo 2015;Lietz et al 2014;Main and Bradshaw 2012;P o p l ee ta l .2015).…”

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Material Well-being, Social Relationships and Children’s Overall Life Satisfaction in Hong Kong

Lau

Bradshaw

2016

Child Ind Res

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There has been growing research interest into child poverty and child wellbeing in Asia. However the development of qualitative and quantitative data in the field predominately adopts 'expert-led' or adult-derived measures of child poverty. This article aims to explore variations in children's overall life satisfaction by their sociodemographic characteristics and social relationships in Hong Kong. Data used in this article is drawn from the first wave of the Strategic Public Policy Research (SPPR) project-'Trends and Implications of Poverty and Social Disadvantages in Hong Kong: A Multi-disciplinary and Longitudinal Study'. This article reports, for the first time evidence based on a child-derived material deprivation index -thereby addressing the limitations in traditional adult-derived child poverty measures. The study found that child deprivation explained more of the variation in children's overall life satisfaction than traditional adult-reported income poverty. Further analyses showed that children's perceived positive relationships with family and teachers, perceived strong social support from family, and experience of being bullied were associated with their life satisfaction.

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Family socioeconomic status and provincial‐level economic, educational, and health‐related factors as predictors of present‐ and future‐oriented subjective wellbeing in junior high school students in China

Gai

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Journal of Adolescence

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Introduction: Previous studies have examined family socioeconomic status (SES) and regional-level factors that predict adolescents' present subjective wellbeing (SWB). However, as adolescents' SWB tends to be future-oriented, this study examined the relationships between family SES and provincial-level economic, educational, and health-related factors and adolescents' present-and future-oriented SWB. Methods: The sample includes 17,341 12-to 17-year-old adolescents (M age = 13.86; SD age = 0.79; 9056 girls and 8285 boys) from 31 different provinces of China. Multilevel modeling was used to analyze the data at two levels. Results: The findings showed that family SES (Level-1) was positively correlated with present life satisfaction (LS-P), present positive affect (PPA), hopeful future expectations (HFE), and positive affect toward future life (FPA), but negatively correlated with present negative affect (PNA) and negative affect toward future life (FNA). Provincial-level (Level-2) years of education per capita, average life expectancy, and human development index (HDI) were positively associated with LS-P, PPA, FPA, and HFE, and negatively associated with PNA; only average life expectancy was negatively associated with FNA. There was no association between gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and SWB. Simple slope analyses demonstrated that, in provinces with relatively less or short years of education per capita, GDP per capita, average life expectancy, or HDI, the correlations between family SES and present-and future-oriented negative affect were stronger. Conclusions: The present-and future-oriented SWB of adolescents from families with low SES in underdeveloped areas was relatively poor. More psychologically focused education activities are needed for these adolescents.

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Family, School, and Community Correlates of Children’s Subjective Well-being: An International Comparative Study

Cited by 164 publications

References 36 publications

Subjective well-being and personal relationships in childhood: Comparison of Brazilian and Spanish children

Subjective well-being and personal relationships in childhood: Comparison of Brazilian and Spanish children

Material Well-being, Social Relationships and Children’s Overall Life Satisfaction in Hong Kong

Family socioeconomic status and provincial‐level economic, educational, and health‐related factors as predictors of present‐ and future‐oriented subjective wellbeing in junior high school students in China

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