The Characteristics of Children’s Subjective Well-Being

Multilevel Analysis of Child and Adolescent Subjective Well‐Being Across 14 Countries: Child‐ and Country‐Level Predictors

“…The Children's Worlds: International Survey of Children's Well‐Being (ISCWeB) was designed to address these gaps in research by using valid and comparable psychometric scales with the largest known international database on children's SWB (Casas, this volume; Casas & Rees, ; Dinisman & Ben‐Arieh, ; Rees & Main, ). It takes a child‐centered approach in examining positive aspects of children's environments and well‐being across a wide range of samples worldwide (Dinisman & Ben‐Arieh, ; Dinisman et al., ; Rees & Main, ). One of the strengths of the study is the measurement of important contextual influences on children, including home, peer, neighborhood, and school influences (Lawler, Newland, Giger, & Roh, ; Lawler, Newland, Giger, Roh, & Brockevelt, ; Newland, Giger, Lawler, Carr, Dykstra, & Roh, ; Newland, Lawler, Giger, Roh, & Carr, ; Lee & Yoo, ; Rees & Main, ).…”

“…Even research using ISCWeB data has found contradictory results in regards to age effects on well‐being indicators. Although some authors have reported inverse age effects on children's well‐being (e.g., Dinisman & Ben‐Arieh, ), others have found that age is unrelated to children's SWB (Lawler, Newland, Giger, & Roh, ; Lawler, Newland, Giger, Roh, & Brockevelt, ; Newland, Giger, Lawler, Carr, Dykstra, & Roh, ; Newland, Lawler, Giger, Roh, & Carr, ). Even where age effects were present, age was one of the weakest predictors of children's SWB, indicating that other contextual factors may be more salient (Dinisman & Ben‐Arieh, ).…”

“…Although some authors have reported inverse age effects on children's well‐being (e.g., Dinisman & Ben‐Arieh, ), others have found that age is unrelated to children's SWB (Lawler, Newland, Giger, & Roh, ; Lawler, Newland, Giger, Roh, & Brockevelt, ; Newland, Giger, Lawler, Carr, Dykstra, & Roh, ; Newland, Lawler, Giger, Roh, & Carr, ). Even where age effects were present, age was one of the weakest predictors of children's SWB, indicating that other contextual factors may be more salient (Dinisman & Ben‐Arieh, ). Although a more nuanced discussion of the intricacies of the age and SWB connection, as well as the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of these studies, can be found at the beginning of this issue (see Casas), some possible reasons for the contradictory findings may include (a) sampling within restricted age groups, (b) assessing well‐being using different SWB indicators, and (c) assessing well‐being at different developmental time points and transition points.…”

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

“…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, ).…”

Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Personal Wellbeing Index-School Children (PWI-SC) in Chilean School Children

“…The well-being construct has been studied in diverse fields, and recently these areas have increased the number of publications addressing this topic, such as public policies (Kroll and Delhey 2013;Spruk and Kešeljevic 2015), psychological processes (Cohen and Cairns 2012;Dinisman and Ben-Arieh 2015), and applied research at different educational levels (Klug and Maier 2015;Liu et al 2015;Navarro et al 2015;Rüppel et al 2015).…”