A Qualitative Longitudinal Study on the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents

Mònica González-Carrasco (), Cristina Vaqué, Sara Malo, Gemma Crous, Ferran Casas and Cristina Figuer
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Mònica González-Carrasco: University of Girona
Cristina Vaqué: University of Vic-Central of Catalonia
Sara Malo: University of Girona
Gemma Crous: University of Girona
Ferran Casas: University of Girona
Cristina Figuer: University of Girona

Child Indicators Research, 2019, vol. 12, issue 2, No 7, 479-499

Abstract: Abstract The aim of this article is to identify factors influencing well-being (whether positively or negatively) reported by children and adolescents from their own perspective, in the context of focus groups and individual interviews, and variations in their answers at two different points in time (one year apart), according to: 1) their previous scores (higher or lower) measured using psychometric scales of subjective well-being (SWB) and related constructs (temperamental traits, specifically via variables related to perceptual and pleasure sensitivity and life optimism), and 2) their age (measured through school year and classified into five cohorts). Important commonalites were observed in the answers reported by participants regardless of their prior levels of SWB and related constructs, the cohort they belonged to, the two separate data collections and the data collection technique used. This finding is interpreted as being due to the existence of a shared and fairly stable bottom-up effect in children and adolescents’ well-being. However, interesting discrepances are also observed between the groups of participants, which contributes to converging theoretical explanations arising out of two different traditions in the study of well-being (the hedonic and the eudaimonic), while also furthering scientific knowledge on how to better research children and adolescents’ well-being from a qualitative point of view.

Keywords: Focus groups; Individual interviews; Subjective well-being; Psychological well-being; Qualitative analysis; Children and adolescents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s12187-018-9534-7

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