Family, School, and Neighbourhood Microsystems Influence on children’s Life Satisfaction in Chile
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2019
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19 p.
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Abstract
At an international level, different researches have pointed out the importance of taking
into account opinions of children and adolescents in order to study their subjective
wellbeing. Reviewing scientific literature, it is recognized that wellbeing is, specially,
affected by microsystems such as family, school or neighbourhood. However, these
microsystems have not been studied enough regarding their influence on subjective
wellbeing on childhood. This research aims to identify the joint influence of family,
school and neighbourhood microsystems on life satisfaction of Chilean children. The
sample were 1392 children between 10 and 13 years, from state subsidized municipal
schools, state subsidized private schools and non-subsidized private schools. Results
show that after analysing different structural equation models, a better adjustment is
obtained by a five dimension configured model which allows to explain life satisfaction
of students. It is concluded that the higher influence factor on life satisfaction is school
relationships, followed by satisfaction with the family, satisfaction with the
neighbourhood and family relationships. A relevant finding was that satisfaction with
school does not exerts any significant influence on life satisfaction.
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Citation
Child Indicators Research 12, 1915–1933 (2019).
Keywords
Children, Life satisfaction, Microsystems, Structural equation models, Chile