Financial Stress and Subjective Wellbeing among Children -Evidence from Finland

Lindberg, Marja; Nygård, Mikael; Nyqvist, Fredrica; Hakovirta, Mia

doi:10.1007/s12187-020-09779-9

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“…Understanding how the pandemic has affected children's everyday stress would provide us with essential information about children's current psychological well-being. Particularly, there is a need to closely examine the sub-areas of children's daily stress, including family, academic performance, peer relationships, and financial pressure [45][46][47]. It is possible that stress in some contexts is exacerbated, while in other contexts, decreases or does not change under the pandemic.…”

Section: Children's Stress and Life Satisfaction During The Covid-19 Pandemicmentioning

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Daily Life Changes and Life Satisfaction among Korean School-Aged Children in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Choi

Park

Kim

et al. 2021

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The recent COVID-19 pandemic has been disrupting the daily lives of people across the world, causing a major concern for psychological well-being in children. This study aimed to examine (1) how life satisfaction and its potential predictors have been affected by the pandemic among school-aged children in Korea, and (2) which factors would predict their life satisfaction during the pandemic. We surveyed 166 fourth-graders in the Seoul metropolitan area to assess their psychological well-being and potentially related variables during the pandemic. The data were compared with those available from two pre-COVID-19 surveys, the 2018 Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey (n = 1236) and the 2019 Korean Children and Youth Well-being Index Survey (n = 334). Higher levels of stress were observed in children during the COVID-19 pandemic; however, the level of their life satisfaction remained unchanged when compared with data from the pre-COVID-19 surveys. The pandemic also affected peer relationship quality and susceptibility to smartphone addiction, but not perceived parenting style nor academic engagement. Interestingly, peer relationship quality no longer predicted life satisfaction during the pandemic; perceived parenting styles and parent-child conversation time predicted life satisfaction. The results suggest a central role of parent-child relationship in supporting the psychological well-being of school-aged children during the pandemic.

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Daily Life Changes and Life Satisfaction among Korean School-Aged Children in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Choi

Park

Kim

et al. 2021

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“…In addition, family, wealth, and the possibility of choice are key factors in subjective well-being which is closely related to self-esteem. Therefore, adolescents without financial support are at risk of low self-esteem [ 39 ]. COVID-19 caused an economic crisis, and 42.3% of adolescents expressed decreased confidence in society 42.3% [ 40 ].…”

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Association between the Perceived Household Financial Decline Due to COVID-19 and Smartphone Dependency among Korean Adolescents

Jung

Kim

Jang

et al. 2022

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This cross-sectional study identified the association between COVID-19-related perceived household financial decline and smartphone dependency among adolescents in South Korea. Data from the 2020 Youth Risk Behavior Survey of Korea was used and 54,809 middle and high school students were included. COVID-19-related perceived household financial decline was categorized as no financial decline, mild, moderate, and severe. Smartphone dependency was calculated by 10 questions and was largely categorized as yes and no, and as normal, low, and high (prevalence rate: 25.0%). Binary and multinomial regression analyses were performed to analyze the association. The more severe the financial decline, the more pronounced the risk of high-risk smartphone dependency (mild financial decline: odds ratio (OR) 1.11, 95% CI 0.96–1.28; moderate: OR 1.22, 95% CI 1.04–1.43; severe: OR 2.56, 95% CI 2.06–3.17). Poor family relationships (OR 1.06, 95% CI 1.03–1.10) and severe social conflict (OR 2.99, 95% CI 2.50–3.58) were also related to smartphone dependency. The ORs were 2.63 with more than three bathrooms and 1.63 with their own bedroom. Smartphone dependency among adolescents is closely related to COVID-19-related perceived household financial decline. As smartphone dependency relates to complicated psychological issues, further evaluation is necessary, especially for vulnerable adolescents.

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“…For instance, in line with studies among adults (Diener et al, 2018), socioeconomic resources consistently show stronger associations with cognitive well-being component (life satisfaction) than with affective ones. Lindberg et al (2021) found that affective well-being components correlate stronger with individual personal characteristics, such as self-confidence and health, whilst cognitive well-being components correlate stronger with external variables, such as family and societal dimensions. Furthermore, the literature shows that researchers often claim to investigate well-being, while using only life satisfaction measures in their studies, which is not aligned with the existing findings that posit positive and negative affect as the main components of the children's well-being construct (Savahl et al, 2021;Tomyn & Cummins, 2011).…”

Section: Hedonic Approach To Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 92%

Children’s Well-Being

Vujčić¹,

Brajša‐Žganec²,

Lipovčan³

2022

Psihol. teme (Online)

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In the last decade, there was substantial growth in children’s well-being investigations, which made considerable progress in understanding the correlates, antecedents, and consequences of children’s well-being. In order to gain more insight into the current state-of-the-art in the field of children’s well-being, this paper aims to present an integrated overview of the recent scientific progress in this area of research. First, we elaborate on the main theoretical conceptualizations of children’s well-being, including hedonic and eudemonic approaches. Second, we explore the challenges of assessing children’s well-being, with a focus on different measurement approaches as well as the developmental aspects of assessing children’s well-being. Finally, we present patterns of findings on the associations between children’s well-being and basic demographic variables, as well as conclusions and implications for future research.

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Financial Stress and Subjective Wellbeing among Children -Evidence from Finland

Cited by 10 publications

References 51 publications

Daily Life Changes and Life Satisfaction among Korean School-Aged Children in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Daily Life Changes and Life Satisfaction among Korean School-Aged Children in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Association between the Perceived Household Financial Decline Due to COVID-19 and Smartphone Dependency among Korean Adolescents

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