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

Lau, Maggie; Bradshaw, Jonathan

doi:10.1007/s12187-016-9426-7

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“…The child material deprivation index explained more of the variation in SWB than conventional measures of material circumstances such as parental income poverty (Main & Bradshaw, ). Similar results were obtained with adolescents in Spain (Casas et al., ), Israel (Gross‐Manos & Ben‐Arieh, ), England (Yin‐Nei Cho, ), and Hong Kong (Lau & Bradshaw, ). In the first wave of data collection of ISCWeB, among over 30,000 children worldwide (aged 6–14), lack of material resources was found to be related to lower SWB (Dinisman & Ben‐Arieh, ).…”

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“…Even when interested in children, most income‐related measures have been adult centered, and household income has been almost exclusively used as a proxy of socioeconomic status (see a review by White, Leavy, & Masters, ). Several scholars have claimed that such adult‐centered income measures do not “tell the whole story” regarding the experience of children in the household (Lau & Bradshaw, ; Main & Bradshaw, ). This is especially problematic when studying children's own perspectives on their lives.…”

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

2018

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Few studies have examined the links among hope, material resources, and subjective well-being (SWB) of children from their own perspectives. The article examines lack of material resources as a risk factor, hope as a human strength, and a possible moderator regarding children's SWB. The study employed a nationally representative sample of 2,977 Jewish and Arab Israeli children (ages 8-12). As predicted, there was a significant positive relation between hope and SWB, and a negative relation between lack of material resources and SWB. Hope was found to moderate the relation between lack of material resources and SWB. Furthermore, for 10- and 12-year olds, differences were found regarding the strength of the relations of the variables, suggesting a possible developmental trend.

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

2018

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“…For example, disadvantages caused by poverty prevent people from participating in social activities and civil engagement and restrict their ability to social integration. Poverty leads to a decrease in interpersonal communication and social support, which is consistent with the previous findings of a negative relationship between poverty and adverse impacts on life satisfaction and happiness (e.g., Lee, Law, & Tam, ; Millar & Ridge, 2009). In recent years, social inclusion has been a focus of social policy in many countries (Chan, Evans, Ng, Chiu, & Huxley, ).…”

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Comparing income poverty gap and deprivation on social acceptance: A mediation model with interpersonal communication and social support

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In many developed countries or regions, wide income disparities increase the difficulty in reducing poverty. In their day‐to‐day lives, poor people often feel less accepted by the society. The failures in communicating with social groups and receiving social support lead to negative consequences on individual well‐being and higher level of social exclusion. Based on the debate upon alternative approaches to conceptualizing and operationalizing poverty, this study attempts to verify a mediation model with data from a household survey (N = 1,202) in Hong Kong. The results of structural equation modelling reveal that deprivation is a more powerful indicator than income poverty for specifying the negative relations of poverty with interpersonal communication, social support, and social acceptance; the negative impact of deprivation on social acceptance can be reduced by two significant mediators of interpersonal communication and social support. The results are discussed in terms of directions for future research and policy and welfare intervention.

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“…All children from age 10 to 17 from each sampled household were invited to complete the PDCW questionnaire. The sampling procedure of the first wave of the Living Standards Survey has already been described in detail elsewhere (Chung et al, ; Lau & Bradshaw, ; Wong et al, ). The second wave of this survey reinterviewed the first wave survey respondents between February 2016 and March 2017.…”

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Children's and adults' perceptions of child necessities in Hong Kong

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There is growing interest in child poverty and well‐being in East Asia. However, empirical studies predominantly adopt “expert‐led” measures (such as adult‐derived child deprivation measures), which usually assume that parents or guardians provide reliable reports about all their children's needs and that the allocation of household resources is effectively equal across all members. Studies of child poverty from a child‐rights or child‐agency perspective are rare in East Asia. Using a consensual deprivation approach, this article examines the extent of agreement between children and adults about which child possessions and activities constitute necessities of life in Hong Kong. The data are drawn from the second wave of the Strategic Public Policy Research project—Trends and Implications of Poverty and Social Disadvantages in Hong Kong: A Multi‐disciplinary and Longitudinal Study. A total of 595 adults and 636 school‐aged children from the first wave of the study were reinterviewed and asked if they considered 16 possessions and activities as essential for children in contemporary Hong Kong. The results showed that adults were significantly more likely to believe that almost all material and social deprivation items were necessities compared with their children, even after controlling for individual‐level factors (i.e., gender and birthplace) and household‐level factors (i.e., number of children in the household, number of working adults, and household income). The findings highlight the importance of incorporating children's views into our understanding of child poverty.

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

Cited by 58 publications

References 28 publications

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

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

Comparing income poverty gap and deprivation on social acceptance: A mediation model with interpersonal communication and social support

Children's and adults' perceptions of child necessities in Hong Kong

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