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Abstract
The purpose of this study is to further assess the international relevance of an ecological, relationship-based model of children’s subjective well-being with samples of 10-year-old children from the United States (n = 502, Mage = 10.66, SD = .55) and 10 other countries: Algeria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Israel, Nepal, Romania, Rwanda, South Korea, and Uganda (n = 502, Mage = 10.12, SD = .48). All children completed the Children’s Worlds survey, which includes individual factors, contextual factors of home and family, life and neighborhood, school, and peers, and subjective well-being measures for life satisfaction, mental health, and self-image. The strongest predictors of children’s subjective well-being were family and peer relationships, school, and neighborhood quality. Findings support the international relevance of an ecological, relationship-based model of children’s subjective well-being.
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1 School of Health Sciences, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA
2 Human Development and Educational Psychology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA
3 College of Social Work, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
4 Department of Social Work, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA
5 Department of Occupational Therapy, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA