Children’s Subjective Well-being: Socio-demographic Characteristics and Personality

Goswami, Haridhan

doi:10.1007/s12187-013-9205-7

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“…In addition, the results showed that demographics indirectly affect GWB through emotional stability. These findings are consistent with several studies (21,23,42) and inconsistent with other results (28,43). In general, there are controversial findings on the role of demographic factors in well-being.…”

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confidence: 81%

Predicting General Well-Being Based on Resiliency Protective Factors and Demographics in Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Emotional Stability

Hossaini

Boogar

Najafi

2017

Int J School Health

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confidence: 81%

Predicting General Well-Being Based on Resiliency Protective Factors and Demographics in Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Emotional Stability

Hossaini

Boogar

Najafi

2017

Int J School Health

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“…being respected and treated fairly at home and school) (Goswami 2012;McAuley and Rose 2014;Reesand Main 2015), and supportive environments (e.g. experience of being bullied) (Currie et al 2012;Dufur et al 2015;Huebner et al 2014;Klocke et al 2014) appeared to have significant effects on children's life satisfaction (Goswami 2014;Pople et al 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

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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“…As is the case with adults, personality is associated with children's subjective well-being (Goswami 2013;Suldo et al 2014) but it is not clear about the direction of causality. Traditional economic measures such as household income appear to play less of a role in explaining children's subjective well-being than adults', but more direct measures of children's experiences of material deprivation (not having access to basic items and experiences) have greater explanatory power (Main and Bradshaw 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Association of Childhood Factors with Children’s Subjective Well-Being and Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties at 11 years old

Rees

2017

Child Ind Res

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Studies using cross-sectional data have found that factors such as family socio-economic status, family structure and parental well-being have relatively weak associations with children's subjective well-being. However there is a lack of longitudinal research exploring whether early childhood circumstances, and the cumulative effect of these kinds of factors over time, exert a stronger influence. This article uses data from a longitudinal representative sample of over 13,000 children in the UK to examine the associations between family and socio-economic factors from the age of nine months to 11 years old and children's subjective well-being at the age of 11. The analysis finds that family and socio-economic factors in early and middle childhood only explain small amounts of the variation in children's subjective well-being. A parallel analysis finds that the same factors can explain much more of the variation in children's emotional and behaviour difficulties. These findings strengthen existing cross-sectional evidence on the lack of substantial socio-economic variation in children's subjective well-being and provide further the support for the distinction between correlates of positive and negative indicators of child well-being.

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Children’s Subjective Well-being: Socio-demographic Characteristics and Personality

Cited by 71 publications

References 80 publications

Predicting General Well-Being Based on Resiliency Protective Factors and Demographics in Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Emotional Stability

Predicting General Well-Being Based on Resiliency Protective Factors and Demographics in Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Emotional Stability

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

The Association of Childhood Factors with Children’s Subjective Well-Being and Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties at 11 years old

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