What is Well-Being Flashcards
According to Fattore, what do children identify as the three major domains in wellbeing?
Positive sense of self / agency / safety and security
How can we measure children’s understanding of well-being?
Looking at how it is linked to relationships
What other, minor themes, do children identify as well-being - according to Fattore’s research?
Activities / adversity / material and economic resource / physical environments / physical health / social responsibility and moral agency
What did Patalay find about how children’s mental illness and wellbeing correlated?
Weakly correlated (r = 0.2)
What are the three approaches to health?
Complete state model, pathogenic model, salutogenic model?
What does the complete state model suggest?
Presence of positive functioning and human capacity and the absence of disease
What does the pathogenic model suggest?
The absence of disease
What does the salutogenic model suggest?
The presence of positive states of functioning capacities
What does Denier suggest, is included in a new focus on well-being?
The study of happiness
What does Cowan suggest, is included in a new focus on well-being?
Studying optimal development
What does Morrow suggest, is included in a new focus on well-being?
A focus on quality of life
What are the 4 subsections of well-being?
Objective, subjective, hedonic and eudaimonic
What 5 characteristics make up well-being?
Flourishing / meaningful relationships / positive emotions / sense of accomplishment / engagement
What are the objective characteristics of well-being?
Social and economic / poverty / health / family structures / educational achievement
What are the subjective characteristics of well-being?
Evaluations of ones life as a whole - the different aspects
What are the hedonic characteristics of well-being?
Life satisfaction (feeling good / positive emotions / life satisfaction / pleasure)
What are the eudaimonic characteristics of well-being?
Psychological well-being (feeling well / positive social functioning / being engaged / realising life potential / living according to values)
According to Ryan and Deci, what are the 3 basic needs for well-being?
Autonomy, competence, relatedness
According o Keyes, what does flourishing constitute of?
High eudaimonic and high hedonic well-being
What levels of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being are associated with mental illness?
High hedonic and low eudiamonic
High hedonic and eudaimonic =
Low hedonic and eudaimonic =
Flourishing / languishing
In the Components of Self-Reported Well Being, what follows on from hedonic?
Affective and cognitive
What should measures of child well-being focus on?
Physical, emotional, social, subjective, objective and quality of life beyond survival
What can impact the measuring consistency of well-being?
The lack of an agreed definition
What type of well-being does the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well Being Scale measure?
Eudaimonic
What type of well-being does the Good Child Index measure?
Subjective well-being
What well-being scale measures objective and subjective well-being?
UNICEF Report Card Series
What do the UNICEF reports show about the trend in child well-being?
UK children have the lowest well-being - unhappiest, poorest and least well educated among the developed countries
What does The Good Child Report show about the trend in child well-being?
Decrease in happiness with life as a whole and with friends / no change in happiness with schoolwork, appearance or family
In The Good Child Report, what gender differences are found?
Boys are happier with life as a whole / girls are happier with school / boys are happier with appearance (gap is closing)
What are NEF’s Five Ways to Well Being?
Connect, be active, take notice, keep learning, give
What is Dodge’s Model of Well Being? What did he find?
The well-being seesaw, between resources and challenges / Boosting resources can support well-being
What are the 3 components of the resources and challenges in the well-being seesaw?
Psychological, social, physical
How do ecological models view well-being?
Multiple interacting domains influence well-being / some are closer and some are more distant
What ecological factors are closer to the child?
Family and peers
What ecological factors are more distant to the child?
Wider community and the neighbourhood
What does Bronfenbrenner say about the ecological systems theory?
All the systems influence each other and influence the child themselves
What are the 5 systems in Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory?
Microsystem, mesosystem, ecosystem, macrosystem, chronosystem
What happens at the microsystem level? (example)
Where the child interacts directly with people and activities (family)
What happens at the mesosytem level? (example)
Intercorrelated between two or more microsystem’s (family and school)
What happens at the exosystem level? (example)
When the child doesn’t interact with, but is directly involved with (parents work)
What happens at the macrosystem level? (example)
The broader context (social)
What happens at the chronosystem level?
Changes over time
According to Diener, what factors are associated with well-being, in adults?
Spending time with family and friends / extroversion / absence of psychopathology
According to Suldo, what factors are associated with well-being, in adolescence?
High social support / low neuroticism / high self-efficacy
According to Roberts, what factors are associated with well-being, in children?
Family functioning / material deprivation / peers and school / neighbourhood
How does well-being change with age?
Declines
According to Suldo, how does well-being change with age?
Peaks around age 12 - declines to its lowest at age 16
What does Roberts say about how well-being changes with age?
Age does relate to well-being, but differences disappear when controlling for social and environmental factors
According to Guttman, what can cause greater than average decreases in well-being?
SEN, material depression, stressful life events
According to Guttman, what can cause greater than average increases in well-being?
Infant school attainment and positive early friendships
What does Guttman say about the effect of positive well-being in one domain?
Positive well-being in one domain can predict greater than average positive changes in another domain
What are the limitations, when investigating the age trend in child well-being?
Narrow definitions of well-being / confounding well-being with absence of mental illness
What does Keye’s, suggest about well-being and mental illness in adults?
The two domains are very different / rated adults well-being as flourishing or languishing, but only 28% of those in languishing had a mental illness
What does Suldo, suggest about well-being and mental illness in adolescence?
Low rates of psychopathology, even in those with only moderate life satisfaction
According to the Children’s Society, what is a consequence of poor well-being?
Later mental health problems
According to Layard, what is a consequence of poor well-being?
Negative adult life satisfaction
According to Gutman, what is a consequence of poor well-being?
Negative educational outcomes
