Children ’s Perceptions of their Safety and Agency in Pakistan
This study focuses on children ’s constructs of their safety, and insecurity and agency within the cultural context of Pakistan. Adopting child standpoint as the methodological frame for this study, we employed child-participatory techniques within our research. A total of 30 children aged between 8 to 12 who belonged to differ ent rural and urban settings in Rawalpindi and Islamabad were interviewed. We found that children constructed their safety and insecurity in relational and community contexts wherein parents, siblings, friends, teachers and neighbors occupied important positions in their lives. We also found that ...
Source: Child Indicators Research - May 16, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
“Hear my Voice”: Subjective Well-Being Scale for Young Children (SWB-YC)
This study aims to develop a subjective well-being scale in line with what young children care about. The subjective well-being scale in this study consists of three dimensions: Positive Relationships with Others, Life Standard, and Life Satisfaction. The subjective well-being scale fo r young children is a semi-structured, self-reported, and designed for all daily living environments, regardless of a single environment. Subjective well-being scale shows good psychometric properties. By discussing the dimensions, the factors that are important in the subjective well-being of young children are revealed. (Source: Child Indicators Research)
Source: Child Indicators Research - May 16, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Synthesising Hedonic and Eudaimonic Approaches: A Culturally Responsive Four-Factor Model of Aggregate Subjective Well-Being for Hong Kong Children
AbstractThis paper tested a culturally responsive four-factor model of aggregate subjective well-being (SWB). Hedonic SWB is often presented as the definitive articulation of SWB, whilst overlooking the impact of Eudaimonic well-being (EWB) on Aggregate SWB. Moreover, children from Confucian Heritage Cultures (CHC) are reported as having lower levels of SWB than children from other countries in studies that principally rely on hedonic instruments, thereby ignoring alternative indicators of well-being. While being a vital childhood indicator, hedonic SWB may not entirely capture the essence of well-being in CHC children who...
Source: Child Indicators Research - May 16, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Family background and classroom belonging among adolescent students in Finland
AbstractWe study whether a family ’s economic situation and parental educational level are associated with classroom belonging among students in comprehensive secondary, upper secondary general and upper secondary vocational education in Finland. We also study whether there are educational-level differences in this possible associ ation. We use survey data from the Finnish School Health Promotion study from 2017 (N = 114,528). We conduct random effect linear probability models with schools as the second-level grouping variable. The results show that family’s low economic situation predicts a higher probability of l...
Source: Child Indicators Research - May 16, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Understanding the Socio-Economic Vulnerability in Child Malnutrition Between Migrants and Non-Migrants Children (12 –59 Months) in India: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Study
This study used data from the National Family Health Survey, the fourth in the NFHS series which was conducted in 2015–2016 (NFHS-4). We were interested in looking at th e children age 12–59 months for their nutritional indicators such as stunting and underweight across migrants and non-migrants children. This resulted in a sample of 199,448 children in selected age group and among them 33.1% children belongs to the migrant family as compared to 67% of non-migr ant children. Overall, 44.2% of children were stunted and 39.5% were underweight among non-migrant children as compared to 37.4%& 32.8% of migrant chil...
Source: Child Indicators Research - May 16, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Rights and overall life satisfaction of 10- and 12-year-old children in three countries
This article includes the third wave of the Children’s Worlds dataset with 7,570 10- and 12-year-old participants (51% girls) from Brazil, Chile and Spain. There are nine rights- related items and a SWB scale (CW-SWBS) used in this analysis. The main results suggest that perceptions related to children’s rights and the opportunities to participate in decisions affecting them in three different contexts (home, school and area where the child lives) significantly contributed to their SWB. Advancing the research into this matter can provide an opportunity to invest in psychosocial interventions that focus on improving chi...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 12, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Being a (Female) Child in Baku: Social Order and Understandings of Well-Being
AbstractWhat does it mean to be a (female) child in the city of Baku, Azerbaijan? How can we critically interpret the girls ’ understandings of well-being considering different forms of compliance with unequal social orders? What conclusions may be drawn from understandings of well- being about the nature of welfare state structures and there-in children’s specific positioning? To answer this question, we conducted q ualitative interviews with 13 girls during their various leisure activities. The study shows that parents and in particular mothers are children’s key reference persons, while there are hardly any spaces...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 11, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Characterization of Wellbeing and its Relationship with Exposure to Violence in Mexican and Chilean Early and Late Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic
AbstractThe current COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has generated negative psychological effects on the global population. In this context, one of the most vulnerable groups is adolescents, who have faced a range of challenging scenarios. The consequences of this pandemic for the wellbeing of adolescents need to be researched across countries. From this perspective, this study aims to characterize the wellbeing of adolescents from Mexico and Chile during the pandemic and delve into the relationship between victimization and the hedonic and eudaimonic types of wellbeing. Data from adolescent students (n = 3,275) were us...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 1, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Childhood Geography: a study about Children ’s Satisfaction with Housing in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
This article presents the study of the characteristics and infrastructure of houses inhabited by children and their satisfaction with them. It embraces a sample of 580 12-year-olds children, living in the district of General Pueyrred ón (PGP), an area located in the Southeast of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. This survey was carried out in the framework of the research project acknowledged by the LOMASCyT Program of the National University of Lomas de Zamora, Argentina and developed by the UNICOM-Institute of Social S tudies, of the School of Social Sciences. Specifically the core of this research considered the...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 1, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Patterns of Time Use among 12-Year-Old Children and Their Life Satisfaction: A Gender and Cross-Country Comparison
This study, therefore, aimed to examine the typologies of time use among 12-year-old children by gender and thei r relationship with their quality of life. We used the second wave of data from the International Survey of Children’s Well-Being collected from 16 countries. Children’s time use, gender, satisfaction with time use, and life satisfaction were included as the key variables. Latent class analysis using MPLUS 7.0 was utilized. Gender differences in the classification of time-use patterns were identified. Three latent classes (G1, G2, and G3) were identified for girls. Overall high activity group (G1) had the hi...
Source: Child Indicators Research - March 31, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The Wellbeing of Armed Conflict-Affected Children in School: A Qualitative Study
This study qualitatively explores the factors that contribute to the school-related subjectiv e wellbeing of armed conflict-affected and displaced children in Nigeria. In this qualitative study, participants (adults and children) were randomly selected from six rural armed conflict-affected communities of northeast Nigeria. Group discussions were undertaken with seventy-armed conflict-affect ed children (38 girls and 32 boys), using the H-diagram tool to describe factors that contribute positively and negatively to their wellbeing in school. Eleven key informants (five females and six males), including school administrator...
Source: Child Indicators Research - March 14, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
School-Based Positive Psychology Interventions that Promote Well-Being in Children: A Systematic Review
AbstractThe present study aimed to identify which school-based positive psychology interventions are effective for increasing children ’s well-being; synthesize existing interventions; and summarize the quality of identified studies. This systematic literature review includes publications up to August 2020, retrieved from the PsycINFO, ERIC and Scopus databases. This review comprises fifteen studies that fit the inclusion and exc lusion criteria. Most of the interventions, programs and curricula that aimed to promote children’s well-being focused on elements of subjective well-being, and their effects remained in the s...
Source: Child Indicators Research - March 9, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Single-Parent Families, Educational Gradient, and Child Deprivation: The Cases of Italy and Spain
This article contributes empirical data to the gr owing literature on the rise of child poverty in Southern European countries. (Source: Child Indicators Research)
Source: Child Indicators Research - March 7, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
How is Subjective Family Socioeconomic Status Related to Life Satisfaction in Chinese Adolescents? The Mediating Role of Resilience, Self-Esteem and Hope
AbstractThis paper aimed at examining the mediators of resilience, self-esteem and hope in the link of subjective family socioeconomic status (SFSS) with life satisfaction in two independent samples of Chinese adolescents. In Study 1, 845 adolescents completed a multi-section questionnaire including the MacArthur Scale of Subjective Social Status, Brief Resilience Scale, Rosenberg Self –esteem Scale, Children’s Hope Scale and Satisfaction with Life Scale. The multiple mediation analysis suggested that SFSS could positively predict life satisfaction through three pathways. First, resilience mediated the link of SFSS wit...
Source: Child Indicators Research - March 7, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Children ’s Criminal Perception; Lessons from Neurolaw
AbstractIn criminal justice systems, after reaching the initial age there are levels of responsibility dictated by the intellectual development and the type of offense committed. Criminal perception, as intellectual ability, is a factor involved in determining the appropriate way to discipline, punish, or rehabilitate a delinquent child. A child ’s perception of his/her crime committed, therefore, explicitly or implicitly plays a crucial role in juror decision-making when determining the level of criminal responsibility. Generally, perception refers to the cognitive process of the brain by which it is possible to interpr...
Source: Child Indicators Research - March 7, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
