The structure of children's subjective well being

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dc.contributor.authorSavahl, Shazly
dc.contributor.authorCasas, Ferran
dc.contributor.authorAdams, Sabirah
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-14T15:37:34Z
dc.date.available2021-06-14T15:37:34Z
dc.date.issued2021-06
dc.description.abstractResearch on children’s quality of life and subjective well-being has advanced over the past decade largely as a result of developments in childhood theory, children’s rights legislation, and the shift toward positive social science. However, in line with the uncertainty regarding the conceptualization of subjective well-being, the structural configuration of children’s subjective well-being has not been considered in the literature. In the current study, we present and test a model of children’s subjective well-being, which includes global (context-free items assessing overall and general well-being, without reference to a specific aspect of life) and specific (domain-based items assessing a specific aspect of life) cognitive components, and positive and negative affect. We further test the fit structure of a hierarchical structural (second-order) model of children’s subjective well-being. Finally, we test the measurement invariance of the hierarchical model across age and gender. We use data from the third Wave of the Children’s Worlds Survey. The data source includes a sample of 92,782 participants selected from 35 countries (girls = 49.7%) in two age groups (10- and 12-years-old). We found a good fit for the four-factor confirmatory factor model of children’s subjective well-being. Correlations between the various latent factors were as anticipated—with positive correlations between the life satisfaction components and positive affect, and negative correlations with negative affect. We further found a good fit for the hierarchical structural model of children’s subjective well-being. Finally, we found the tenability of measurement invariance across age and gender. The study extends the generalizability of the hierarchical structural configuration of the subjective well-being to child samples, and provides a viable model to explore correlates and predictors of children’s subjective well-being using the full conceptual model. Finally, we propound the tenability of a quadripartite hierarchical conceptual model of children’s subjective well-being.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSavahl S. et al. (2021) The Structure of Children’s Subjective Well-being. Front. Psychol. 12:650691. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.650691en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.650691
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/6276
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherResearchgateen_US
dc.subjectChildren’s subjective well-beingen_US
dc.subjectConfirmatory factor analysisen_US
dc.subjectHierarchical structural modelen_US
dc.subjectChildren’s worlds surveyen_US
dc.subjectStructure of children’s subjective well-beingen_US
dc.titleThe structure of children's subjective well beingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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