The Effect of Body Image Perceptions on Life Satisfaction and Emotional Wellbeing of Adolescent Students:
Abstract Studies investigating specific determinants of subjective wellbeing (such as body image perceptions) using experimental/quasi-experimental methods are lacking. Furthermore, few studies considered more than one dimension of wellbeing, used multi-country samples, or considered a variety of determinants/correlates of wellbeing. Only a small minority of studies are on adolescents. I used a large multi-country sample of 15-year-old students, to implement an innovative methodological approach which accounts for potential endogeneity of body image perceptions and derive estimates of the effect of body image on the cogn...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 19, 2023 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Life Quality and Factors Affecting in Primary School Students: A Multivariate Analysis
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The present study aimed to assess the relationship between socio-demographic characteristics and quality of life (QoL) of 2nd and 5th-grade primary school students utilizing multivariate analysis methods. This is a retrospective registry study. The data were obtained from the forms dated back to the years 2017 that nursing students used in school health practices. Accordingly, 866 registration forms belonging to 2nd-grade (412) students from three primary schools and 5th-grade (454) students from three secondary schools were included in the analyses. The data were evaluated in the general introductory informati...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 15, 2023 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Highly Sensitive Child Scale Across Age Groups, Gender, and Informants
AbstractSensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) is theorized to be a fundamental trait capturing children ’s general sensitivity to the environment. Yet, scientific knowledge of SPS is mostly based on findings from Western cultures and few translated measures exist to assess children’s SPS outside of Western countries. Therefore, we developed the Chinese Highly Sensitive Child (HSC) scale. In Study 1, we investigated the scale’s psychometric properties for both self-reports (N = 2925,Mage = 11.74 years, 43.3% girls) and caregiver reports (n = 460,Mchild age = 9.02 years, 44.0% girls). Findings replicated most ps...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 13, 2023 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Exploring the Relationship between Mindfulness and Life Satisfaction in Adolescents: The Role of Social Competence and Self-Esteem
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Although previous research demonstrated that greater mindfulness may contribute to life satisfaction, less is unclosed about such an association and the mechanisms potentially explaining it during adolescence. The present study aimed to explore the role of self-esteem and social competence in the mindfulness-life satisfaction relationship in a sample of Turkish adolescents. The sample consisted of 406 adolescents aged 14 –18 years (Mage = 16.01,SD = 1.15; 62.32% girls). We collected the data using the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale-Adolescent (MAAS-A), the Perceived Competence Scale (PCS-S), the R...
Source: Child Indicators Research - April 4, 2023 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Bullying Victimization and Mathematics Achievement Among Brazilian Adolescents: Moderated Mediation Model of School Subjective well-being and Perceived Social Support
This study proposed a moderated mediation model to examine the mediating effect of school subjective well-being and moderating effect of perceived social support in the relationship between bullying victimization and mathematics academic performance. A sample of 428 adolescents from northeast Brazil, ages ranging from 12 to 19 years (M = 14.88; SD = 1.70), students from middle and high school. Mediation analysis indicated that positive affects at school completely mediated the relationship been bullied and math grades. Moderated mediation analysis further indicated that the overall perceived social support moderat...
Source: Child Indicators Research - March 30, 2023 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
I Don ’t Care Who You Are: Adult Respondent Selection Does Not Alter Child Deprivation Estimates
AbstractThe last decade has seen strong developments in child poverty measurement. Children are largely recognised to have age-specific needs, which has led to the development of child-specific poverty measures. One of the current ongoing debates is how best to collect that information. Questions regarding child deprivation are most often answered by a reference adult and assume that adult respondents provide accurate reports about their children ’s needs. These assumptions have largely gone untested. Making use of a unique feature of the Fijian Household Income and Expenditure Survey (2019/20), this paper explores the e...
Source: Child Indicators Research - March 20, 2023 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Collaboration between School and Home to Improve Subjective Well-being: A New Chinese Children ’s Subjective Well-being Scale
This study developed the Chinese Children’s Subjective Well-being Scale and explored an appropriate strategy to improve children’s subjective well-being from the collaboration between school and home perspective. Based on a literature review, focus group interviews, expert validity, factor structure and confirmatory factor analysis, this study developed the Chinese Children’s Subjective Well-being Scale. We then enrolled 289 grade 3–6 students from a public primary school in southeastern Chi na to conduct multiple linear regression analysis. The Chinese Children’s Subjective Well-being Scale had good reliability ...
Source: Child Indicators Research - March 14, 2023 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Neighborhood Quality and Subjective Well-being Among Children: A Moderated Mediation Model of Out-of-school Activities and Friendship Quality
This study focuses on children as social actors to explore the factors that influence their subjective well-being. The primary purposes of this study are twofold: (1) to examine the potential mediating effects of out-of-school activities on the association between neighborhood quality and children ’s subjective well-being; and (2) to examine the potential moderating effects of friendship quality on the associations between neighborhood quality, out-of-school activities, and children’s subjective well-being. This study used international data from the third wave of the International Survey of Children’s Well-Being (IS...
Source: Child Indicators Research - March 13, 2023 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Child Labor and Unemployment: a Tale of Two Associations in Urban and Rural Areas in Iran
This study investigates the association between the unemployment rate and child labor among 30 Iranian provinces. In the absence of official data on child labor as a ubiquitous phenomenon, especially in developing countries, this study extracted official figures of child labor at the province level using the population and housing census data from the Statistical Centre of Iran. Controlling real GDP per capita, income inequality, and inflation rate, the results of panel data models (for boys and girls in rural and urban areas) indicate that unemployment is more severely and adversely related to child labor in rural areas. ...
Source: Child Indicators Research - March 11, 2023 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Measuring Childhood Exposure to Neighbourhood Deprivation at the Macro- and Micro-level in Aotearoa New Zealand
AbstractNeighbourhood effects research has benefited from the application of sequence analysis which, together with cluster analysis, identifies the main temporal patterns of exposure to residential contexts experienced by different groups of people, such as children. However, given that this is a relatively new approach to measuring exposure to neighbourhood deprivation, studies that have utilised sequence analysis to model residential trajectories and test for neighbourhood effects do not contextualise these population-level findings at the individual-level. The current study sought to investigate the patterns of exposur...
Source: Child Indicators Research - March 7, 2023 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Quality of Life and Well-Being of Adolescents in Portuguese Schools
AbstractThe quality of the school environment is associated with greater school involvement and academic success and improved levels of well-being/quality of life. In this sense, this study intends to explore the relationship between the quality of life of Portuguese adolescents and school. 8215 adolescents participated in this study, 52.7% of which were female, aged between 10 and 22 years and an average age of 14.36 years (SD = 2.28). The sample was collected as part of the Health Behavior in School-aged Children (HBSC) study. The results show that girls like school, teachers, school breaks (between classes) and clas...
Source: Child Indicators Research - March 7, 2023 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Identification, Witnessing and Reaction to School Bullying Behaviour in Secondary Education
This study, carried out with 10,795 Compulsory Secondary Education students (Asturias, Spain), seeks to determine what behaviours are considered school bullying, to what extent they are witnessed, and what the typical reactions to bullying are. To gather the data, a 19-item questionnaire was used, with a high degree of reliability ( α = 0.85). Regarding the results, most of the students have a concept of bullying generally related to the use of physical force, although the behaviours witnessed with the greatest frequency are insults, social exclusion, or damaging belongings. As for their reaction, students tend to ass...
Source: Child Indicators Research - March 7, 2023 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Academic Monitoring and Support from Teachers and School Satisfaction: The Sequential Mediation Effect of Hope and Academic Grit
AbstractSchool satisfaction and teacher-student connections have recently drawn more attention. However, it is still unknown what elements influence how students perceive academic monitoring and help from teachers about school pleasure. Therefore, this study aimed to reveal whether hope and academic grit mediate the relationship between secondary school students ’ perceived academic monitoring and support from teachers and school satisfaction. The participants of this study were 720 Turkish secondary school students (Mage = 13.6; 48.9% female, 51.1% male). In the study, we used School Satisfaction Scale, Academic Eng...
Source: Child Indicators Research - March 7, 2023 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Emigration ’s Heterogeneous Impact on Children’s Wellbeing in Punjab, Pakistan
AbstractWe investigate the impact of the migration of a household member who is potentially a caregiver on child health and schooling outcomes in Pakistan. We use micro-level cross-sectional data on more than 600,000 children from multiple rounds of the UN ’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) dataset from 2008–2018 for Punjab province. We implement a new instrumental variable to address the endogeneity of the migration decision, comprising a triple interaction of nighttime light intensity of the major destination countries, historic migrati on rates at the district level, and the number of adult males in a house...
Source: Child Indicators Research - March 6, 2023 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Children ’s Lived Experiences of Wellbeing at School in England: a Phenomenological Inquiry
AbstractThis phenomenological inquiry investigated children ’s wellbeing experiences at school, including their hedonic (feeling good) and eudaimonic (doing good) accounts, a distinction often overlooked. Further, while phenomenological inquiries of children ’s mental ill-health exist, wellbeing, a fundamental part of mental health, is neglected. This is at odds with positive psychology which favours strengths-based approaches to studying human development. Phenomenology provides rich detail, facilitating deeper understanding ofwhy andhow certain factors affect wellbeing, as described by children themselves. A sample o...
Source: Child Indicators Research - March 3, 2023 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
