Sociodemographic Profile of Children’s Well-Being in Chile

Access to material resources and the subjective well-being of children in Brazil and Chile

“…Greater progress has been made in some Latin American countries in understanding the subjective well-being of children and adolescents at an individual level. In general, the results found in these studies agree with what is reported in international literature showing high levels of well-being in this age group (Góngora & Castro-Solano, 2014;Guzmán et al, 2017;Sarriera et al, 2012). In Brazil a study done by Sarriera et al (2015a) found that adolescents generally tend to report a high degree of life satisfaction.…”

“…A study done in Chile with data from 1,520 students aged 8 to 14 showed that the children's well-being scores were high in general. This same study, however, also found that students in younger grade levels had greater well-being than the older grade students, that boys presented better overall well-being levels than the girls, and the students attending private schools tended to have higher wellbeing numbers than those attending other types of schools (Guzmán et al, 2017). Another study in this same country with data from 2,734 children aged 8 through 12 found that they were highly satisfied with their lives overall, with more than 70% sharing that opinion.…”

Exploring the Influence School Climate on the Relationship between School Violence and Adolescent Subjective Well-Being

“…In Latin America, a growing body of evidence has allowed the development of a multidimensional model of this construct including psychological, subjective, psychosocial, and socio-community well-being (Guzmán et al 2017;Sarriera and Bedin 2017). In Chile, this theoretical development has been further encouraged by the agenda of the national survey of children's wellbeing.…”

“…This research is primarily focused on descriptive analyses. Guzmán et al (2017) examined differences among subjective well-being measures and found that satisfaction levels were lower in 7th graders versus 5th graders. Another Chilean study performed at a southern city reported that self-esteem and social support were positively related to life satisfaction in a sample of 512 young individuals (San Martín and Barra 2013).…”

“…Despite this, the literature on gender and wellbeing is somewhat controversial and provides mixed results across different cultural contexts (Casas 2011;González-Carrasco et al 2017), including Chile (Alfaro et al 2016). For example, Guzmán et al (2017) found differences in favor of males against females using the Overall Satisfaction Scale (OLS), these results were the opposite when comparing interpersonal relationships for the Domains Satisfaction General Index (DSGI). Therefore, future studies should explore other mechanisms that might explain sex differences for these variables observed among young individuals.…”