What is Well-Being Flashcards

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According to Fattore, what do children identify as the three major domains in wellbeing?

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Positive sense of self / agency / safety and security

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How can we measure children’s understanding of well-being?

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Looking at how it is linked to relationships

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What other, minor themes, do children identify as well-being - according to Fattore’s research?

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Activities / adversity / material and economic resource / physical environments / physical health / social responsibility and moral agency

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What did Patalay find about how children’s mental illness and wellbeing correlated?

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Weakly correlated (r = 0.2)

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What are the three approaches to health?

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Complete state model, pathogenic model, salutogenic model?

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What does the complete state model suggest?

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Presence of positive functioning and human capacity and the absence of disease

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What does the pathogenic model suggest?

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The absence of disease

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What does the salutogenic model suggest?

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The presence of positive states of functioning capacities

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What does Denier suggest, is included in a new focus on well-being?

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The study of happiness

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What does Cowan suggest, is included in a new focus on well-being?

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Studying optimal development

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What does Morrow suggest, is included in a new focus on well-being?

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A focus on quality of life

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What are the 4 subsections of well-being?

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Objective, subjective, hedonic and eudaimonic

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What 5 characteristics make up well-being?

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Flourishing / meaningful relationships / positive emotions / sense of accomplishment / engagement

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What are the objective characteristics of well-being?

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Social and economic / poverty / health / family structures / educational achievement

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What are the subjective characteristics of well-being?

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Evaluations of ones life as a whole - the different aspects

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What are the hedonic characteristics of well-being?

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Life satisfaction (feeling good / positive emotions / life satisfaction / pleasure)

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What are the eudaimonic characteristics of well-being?

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Psychological well-being (feeling well / positive social functioning / being engaged / realising life potential / living according to values)

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According to Ryan and Deci, what are the 3 basic needs for well-being?

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Autonomy, competence, relatedness

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According o Keyes, what does flourishing constitute of?

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High eudaimonic and high hedonic well-being

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What levels of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being are associated with mental illness?

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High hedonic and low eudiamonic

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High hedonic and eudaimonic =

Low hedonic and eudaimonic =

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Flourishing / languishing

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In the Components of Self-Reported Well Being, what follows on from hedonic?

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Affective and cognitive

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What should measures of child well-being focus on?

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Physical, emotional, social, subjective, objective and quality of life beyond survival

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What can impact the measuring consistency of well-being?

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The lack of an agreed definition

25
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What type of well-being does the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well Being Scale measure?

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Eudaimonic

26
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What type of well-being does the Good Child Index measure?

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Subjective well-being

27
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What well-being scale measures objective and subjective well-being?

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UNICEF Report Card Series

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What do the UNICEF reports show about the trend in child well-being?

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UK children have the lowest well-being - unhappiest, poorest and least well educated among the developed countries

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What does The Good Child Report show about the trend in child well-being?

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Decrease in happiness with life as a whole and with friends / no change in happiness with schoolwork, appearance or family

30
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In The Good Child Report, what gender differences are found?

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Boys are happier with life as a whole / girls are happier with school / boys are happier with appearance (gap is closing)

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What are NEF’s Five Ways to Well Being?

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Connect, be active, take notice, keep learning, give

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What is Dodge’s Model of Well Being? What did he find?

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The well-being seesaw, between resources and challenges / Boosting resources can support well-being

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What are the 3 components of the resources and challenges in the well-being seesaw?

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Psychological, social, physical

34
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How do ecological models view well-being?

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Multiple interacting domains influence well-being / some are closer and some are more distant

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What ecological factors are closer to the child?

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Family and peers

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What ecological factors are more distant to the child?

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Wider community and the neighbourhood

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What does Bronfenbrenner say about the ecological systems theory?

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All the systems influence each other and influence the child themselves

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What are the 5 systems in Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory?

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Microsystem, mesosystem, ecosystem, macrosystem, chronosystem

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What happens at the microsystem level? (example)

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Where the child interacts directly with people and activities (family)

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What happens at the mesosytem level? (example)

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Intercorrelated between two or more microsystem’s (family and school)

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What happens at the exosystem level? (example)

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When the child doesn’t interact with, but is directly involved with (parents work)

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What happens at the macrosystem level? (example)

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The broader context (social)

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What happens at the chronosystem level?

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Changes over time

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According to Diener, what factors are associated with well-being, in adults?

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Spending time with family and friends / extroversion / absence of psychopathology

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According to Suldo, what factors are associated with well-being, in adolescence?

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High social support / low neuroticism / high self-efficacy

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According to Roberts, what factors are associated with well-being, in children?

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Family functioning / material deprivation / peers and school / neighbourhood

47
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How does well-being change with age?

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Declines

48
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According to Suldo, how does well-being change with age?

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Peaks around age 12 - declines to its lowest at age 16

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What does Roberts say about how well-being changes with age?

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Age does relate to well-being, but differences disappear when controlling for social and environmental factors

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According to Guttman, what can cause greater than average decreases in well-being?

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SEN, material depression, stressful life events

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According to Guttman, what can cause greater than average increases in well-being?

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Infant school attainment and positive early friendships

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What does Guttman say about the effect of positive well-being in one domain?

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Positive well-being in one domain can predict greater than average positive changes in another domain

53
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What are the limitations, when investigating the age trend in child well-being?

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Narrow definitions of well-being / confounding well-being with absence of mental illness

54
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What does Keye’s, suggest about well-being and mental illness in adults?

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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

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What does Suldo, suggest about well-being and mental illness in adolescence?

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Low rates of psychopathology, even in those with only moderate life satisfaction

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According to the Children’s Society, what is a consequence of poor well-being?

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Later mental health problems

57
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According to Layard, what is a consequence of poor well-being?

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Negative adult life satisfaction

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According to Gutman, what is a consequence of poor well-being?

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Negative educational outcomes