Life Satisfaction and Material Well-being of Children in the UK
This paper explores whether child life satisfaction is associated with household income and a range of other indicators of material well-being introduced to help monitor child well-being in the UK. The results suggest that family income and income-based measures of poverty are not associated with child life satisfaction, which implies that improvements on this child poverty measure may not represent real improvements in quality of life as they are perceived by children themselves. By contrast, markers of material deprivation show some association with child life satisfaction. Life satisfaction is lower the more things the adult members of children‟s household are materially deprived of, and the association is more marked if the children themselves are deprived of things other children do enjoy. The associations also hold when we consider differences in other aspects of children‟s life such as the quality of the schools they go to, the number of friends they have, their health and levels of physical activity. Broadly speaking, the results suggest that the same aspects of life that matter for adult‟s life satisfaction also matter for child life satisfaction.
Published : 31st July 2012
Author : Gundi Knies [ More From This Author ]
Publisher : Institute for Social and Economic Research [ More From This Publisher ]
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