Well-Being, Resilience and Quality of Life from Children’s Perspectives [electronic resource] : A Contextualized Approach / by Silvia Exenberger, Barbara Juen.
By: Exenberger, Silvia [author.].
Contributor(s): Juen, Barbara [author.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
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BookSeries: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research: Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014Description: X, 71 p. 3 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789400775190.Subject(s): Social sciences | Maternal and infant welfare | Quality of Life | Quality of Life -- Research | Developmental psychology | Applied psychology | Social Sciences | Quality of Life Research | Maternal and Child Health | Child and School Psychology | Community and Environmental PsychologyDDC classification: 306 Online resources: Click here to access online Introduction -- Chapter 1: Social Indicators and the Concepts of Quality of Life, Subjective Well-Being and Resilience -- Chapter 2: Culture and Child Well-Being -- Chapter 3: Child Well-Being -- Chapter 4: Development of Child Well-Being Indicators Four Years after the Tsunami Disaster -- Chapter 5: Children’s Voices on Their Well-Being: A Child Well-Being Index -- Conclusions -- References.
This book explores the broad view on child well-being and the quality of life research. It starts with a discussion of the origin of the social indicator movement and a review of literature on the concepts of quality of life, (subjective) well-being and resilience. It then discusses the force of culture on child development, and shows how two prototypical environments favor either the independent or interdependent self-model. After an exploration of the shifts and changes in the child well-being indicator movement and trends of child well-being measurements, the book turns to research on Tsunami-affected children. The first part of the study gives these children and their caregivers a voice, formulating in their words what constitutes child well-being for them in the given circumstances. The concepts provided are processed in detail, contrasted, and then made into indicators. The second part of the study describes the introduction of a child well-being index based on these indicators. The book ends with four main conclusions reflected in a theoretical model of contextualized child well-being indicators.
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