Positive Indicators of Child Well-Being: A Conceptual Framework, Measures, and Methodological Issues

Lippman, Laura; Moore, Kristin Anderson; McIntosh, Hugh

doi:10.1007/s11482-011-9138-6

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“…Related to this issue is the distinction between indicators of child QOL and indicators of the child's context (Lee, 2014;Lippman, Moore, & McIntosh, 2011). Some measures of QOL combine items that directly address children's personal well-being with items assessing the quality of children's contexts (e.g., KIDSCREEN, BMSLSS).…”

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Quality of life in children: A critical examination of concepts, approaches, issues, and future directions

Wallander

Koot

2016

Clinical Psychology Review

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• Children deserve to experience a good quality of life (QOL).• We examine three main approaches for understanding children's QOL.• Issues and opportunities in research on children's QOL are discussed.• We conclude social indicators and subjective well-being best capture children's QOL.• QOL should be a universal indicator when we intend to advance well-being of children. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o The quality of children's life is important both as an investment in the future of our society and because children constitute an important group of themselves and deserve to experience well-being presently. Quality of life (QOL) has been conceptualized and studied in children for several decades, but with disparate approaches that have rarely been discussed jointly with application to children in general. Here we describe and critically examine the three main approaches to children's QOL: health-related QOL (HRQOL), social indicators, and subjective wellbeing (SWB). Although this is not a review of instruments per se, we illustrate these approaches by describing their most prominent measures. Issues and opportunities in research on children's QOL are then discussed related to conceptual clarity, content specification, range of experience, subjective and objective perspectives, development in childhood, reporting source, and malleability of QOL. Finally, directions for advancing children's QOL are considered. We highlight the benefits of focusing on social indicators and SWB, rather than HRQOL, when representing this concept for children in general, the need for applying more sophisticated research strategies, and using QOL as a universal indicator of success whenever we intend to advance the well-being of children through intervention, programs, and policy.

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Quality of life in children: A critical examination of concepts, approaches, issues, and future directions

Wallander

Koot

2016

Clinical Psychology Review

204

194

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“…More recently however, eudamonic indicators of positive functioning have been incorporated as well, such as measures for feelings of self-esteem, mastery, and competence (Bierman et al 2006;Huppert 2006;Keyes 2005;Ryan and Deci 2001;Ryff 1989;Ryff and Singer 1998), also in research on child well-being (e.g. Lippman, Moore and McIntosh 2011). The finding that positive and negative affects only moderately correlate (-.50), suggests that both are simultaneously related but distinct (Bradburn 1969;Huppert and Whittington 2003;Payton 2009), and that subjective wellbeing is more than the absence of mental problems or psychiatric complaints (Horwitz 2002;Keyes et al 2002).…”

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Divorce and the Multidimensionality of Men and Women’s Mental Health: The Role of Social-Relational and Socio-Economic Conditions

Symoens

Velde

Colman

et al. 2013

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Divorce and the multidimensionality of men and women's mental health 2 Divorce and the multidimensionality of men and women's mental health 2 Divorce and the multidimensionality of men and women's mental health:The role of social-relational and socio-economic conditions AbstractResearch consistently reveals that the divorced generally face more mental health problems than the married.Less attention however has been paid to positive mental health indicators. Insight in these however may help policy makers and care providers to see both the broader picture and stimulate active coping. Using data from the European Social Survey (2006)(2007), differences in both feelings of depression, and in feelings of self-esteem, autonomy, and competence between the married (N = 14,072) and divorced (N = 4,304) are estimated for women and men separately. Drawing on stress and coping theories, we map how specific social-relational and socio-economic conditions relate. Analyses reveal that divorce is related not only to more feelings of depression, but also to lower levels of self-esteem and competence. Difference scores in mental health based on marital status are also found to differ significantly between men and women for competence, with the difference being more pronounced in men. Additionally, social-relational and socio-economic conditions explain much of the gap in depression scores -and to a lesser extent, in self-esteem and competence scores -between the married and divorced. Finally, some interesting gender differences were found in how social-relational and socio-economic conditions relate to mental health when divorced, with women especially seeming to benefit from advantageous socio-economic conditions. Keywords divorce; gender; mental health; stress; wellbeing Divorce and the multidimensionality of men and women's mental health. 3Divorce and the multidimensionality of men and women's mental health:The role of social-relational and socio-economic factors

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“…The importance of contextual factors on children well-being is emphasized in the realm of children's rights. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) spells out broad international agreement about children's rights to well-being in a comprehensive array of contextual domains extending from family to school, cultural centers, religious organizations, recreation areas, and other parts of the community (Lippman et al, 2011).…”

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The efficacy of circle of security on attachment and well-being in preschool children

Dehghani¹,

Malekpour²,

Abedi³

et al. 2014

10.5267/j.msl

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The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of Circle of Security (COS) on preschool children's attachment and well-being. 48 mothers with children's age 4 to 6 year were randomly selected through cluster sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (24 mothers and child in each group). Then the experimental group received 20 weekly COS sessions in the center of preschool. The attachment Q-set and Preschool children wellbeing questionnaire (PCWQ) were used as the pretest, post-test and in the course of follow-up. Results of Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) showed that the mean scores of attachment, in the experimental group, was significantly greater than the control group in posttest (P = 0.000) and follow-up (P = 0.002). Results also showed that the scores of well-being in experimental group was significantly greater than the control group in post-test (P = 0.006) and follow-up (P = 0.018). The finding of the study emphasized the importance of training of attachment in improvement of preschool children's attachment and well-being. More studies are suggested to understand better efficacy of maternal behavior on preschool children's well-being.

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Positive Indicators of Child Well-Being: A Conceptual Framework, Measures, and Methodological Issues

Cited by 174 publications

References 77 publications

Quality of life in children: A critical examination of concepts, approaches, issues, and future directions

Quality of life in children: A critical examination of concepts, approaches, issues, and future directions

Divorce and the Multidimensionality of Men and Women’s Mental Health: The Role of Social-Relational and Socio-Economic Conditions

The efficacy of circle of security on attachment and well-being in preschool children

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