Family School and Community Correlates of Childr

Authors: Bong Joo Lee Min Sang Yoo

Publish Date: 2014/12/20

Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 151-175

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Abstract

The primary purposes of this study are twofold to examine how family school and community factors are related to children’s subjective wellbeing and to examine the patterns of the relationships between family school and community variables and children’s subjective wellbeing across nations We use the data from the pilot study of the International Survey of Children’s WellBeing for our analysis We use multiple regression and multilevel methods in the study We find that family school and community lives all significantly affect the levels of children’s subjective wellbeing We also find that family school and community lives of children are important predictors of subjective wellbeing even after controlling for the countryspecific cultural and contextual factors We find that the economic variables of GDP and inequality are not significant factors predicting children’s subjective wellbeing Rather it is the nature of children’s relationships with immediate surrounding environments such as frequency of family activities frequency of peer activities and neighborhood safety are most consistently related to the levels of children’s subjective wellbeing across the nations

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