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University of York, 27 - 29  th  July 2011

Laboratorio di Statistica per la Ricerca Sociale e Educativa Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione - Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Educazione e dei Processi Culturali e Formativi. University of York, 27 - 29  th  July 2011 3rd Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators

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University of York, 27 - 29  th  July 2011

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  1. Laboratorio di Statistica per la Ricerca Sociale e EducativaFacoltà di Scienze della Formazione - Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Educazione e dei Processi Culturali e Formativi University of York, 27 - 29 th July 2011 3rd Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators ‘Italian validation of three American scales aimed at measuring children’s well-being’. Beatrice Tommasi-ElenaRuviglioni (Università degli Studi di Firenze)

  2. ‘Childwell-being’ Whythistopic? • Childwell-being • The welfare of the whole society

  3. ‘Childwell-being’ • Indirectevaluation • Children’s direct involvement

  4. 1. INDIRECT EVALUATION • Social indicators: - Convention on the Rightsof the Child (‘89) - BROFENBRENNER’S BIO-ECOLOGICAL MODEL (Bronferbrenner, 1998) - UNICEF; - OECD; - CWI (Land, 2001); - CHILD (2002) - KIDS COUNT (The Annie E. CaseyFoundation, 2003); - CHILD FOCUSED APPROACH (Hood, 2005); - ISQOLS (‘90)

  5. 2. CHILDREN’S DIRECT INVOLVEMENT  to obtain their point of view criteria used in order to select the questionnaire: - Children’s direct Involvement; - Defined age range (from third to fifth grade of Primary school); - Free availability of the questionnaire’ versions; - Wide validation.

  6. Literature review: - CSDQ (Crandallet al., 1965) - PANAS-C (Laurentet al., 1999) - SLSS (Huebner, 1991) - MSLSS (Huebner, 1994) - BMSLSS (Huebner, 1997) - COSS (Randolph et al., 2008)

  7. Three questionnaires met the objectives described above: - Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (Huebner, 1991) - MultidimensionalStudents’ Life Satisfaction Scale (Huebner, 1994) - BriefMultidimensionalStudents’ Life Satisfaction Scale (Huebner, 1997)

  8. SLSSMSLSSBMSLSS Topics: • Family • Friends • School • Living environment • Self • Life as a whole

  9. The ‘CHILDREN LIFE SATISFACTION’ survey: • STUDY 1 Objective: Italianvalidationofthreescales • STUDY 2 Objective: survey childrens’ pointofview

  10. Objective: Italianvalidationofthreescales The questionnaire: - Demographic information Whatyearwereyouborn? Wherewereyouborn? You are: or You live with: - Both parents; - A single parents; - Brothers/sisters; - Grandparents; - Friends; - Other. What’s your parents’ jobs? - mother: - father: Do you have your own bedroom? -yes -no Do youhave a computer in your home? -yes -no The ‘CHILDREN LIFE SATISFACTION’ survey: study 1

  11. Objective: Italianvalidationofthreescales The tool: - Demographic information - Student’s Life Satisfaction Scale How much do you agree with the following statements? - I would like to change things in my life - Life is great - I have a good life - My life isbetterthanmostkids Response options: - StronglyDisagree - ModeratelyDisagree - MildlyDisagree - MildlyAgree - ModeratelyAgree - StronglyAgree The ‘CHILDREN LIFE SATISFACTION’ survey: study 1

  12. Objective: Italianvalidationofthreescales The tool: - Demographic information - Student’s Life Satisfaction Scale - MultidimensionalStudent’s Life Satisfaction Scale FAMILY: - Myparents and I do funthingstogether - I enjoybeing at home withmy family FRIENDS: - I wish I haddifferentfriends - I have a lotoffunwithmyfriends SCHOOL: - I likebeing in school - Schoolisinteresting LIVING ENVIRONMENT: - I likewhere I live - I likemyneighborhood SELF: - I am a niceperson - I likemyself Response options: - Never - Sometimes - Often - Almostalways The ‘CHILDREN LIFE SATISFACTION’ survey: study 1

  13. Objective: Italianvalidationofthreescales The tool: - Demographic information - Student’s Life Satisfaction Scale - MultidimensionalStudent’s Life Satisfaction Scale - BriefMultidimensionalStudent’s Life Satisfaction Scale The ‘CHILDREN LIFE SATISFACTION’ survey: study 1

  14. The ‘CHILDREN LIFE SATISFACTION’ survey: study 1 BMSLSS Questions: - I woulddescribemysatisfactionwithmy family life as Response options (7): - Terrible - Unhappy - Mostlysatisfied - Mixed (aboutequallysatisfied and dissatisfied) - Mostlydissatisfied - Pleased - Delighted BMSLSS italianversion Questions: - Are you satisfied with your family life? Response options (5): - terribly unhappy - dissatisfied - satisfied and equally  dissatisfied (mixture), - satisfied, - very satisfied

  15. Objective: Italianvalidationofthreescales The tool: - Demographic information - Student’s Life Satisfaction Scale - MultidimensionalStudent’s Life Satisfaction Scale - BriefMultidimensionalStudent’s Life Satisfaction Scale - Face Scale Question: How much are you happy? Response options: The ‘CHILDREN LIFE SATISFACTION’ survey: study 1

  16. Objective: Italianvalidationofthreescales The tool: - Demographic information - Student’s Life Satisfaction Scale - MultidimensionalStudent’s Life Satisfaction Scale - BriefMultidimensionalStudent’s Life Satisfaction Scale - Face Scale - WeatherScales Questions: - When you are at school how do you feel? - When you are with your family how do you feel? - When you are with your friends how do you feel? Response options: The ‘CHILDREN LIFE SATISFACTION’ survey: study 1

  17. The ‘CHILDREN LIFE SATISFACTION’ survey: study 1 • Sample: 235children (III-IV-V ofPrimarySchool) Procedures: - Contactwithschool management/teachers - Signed permission by children’s parents - Administering the questionnaire (presenceofresearcher)

  18. The ‘CHILDREN LIFE SATISFACTION’ survey: study 1 • Analysisofinternalconsistency(Cronbach’s Alpha): - Student’s Life Satisfaction Scale α= 0.75 - MultidimensionalStudent’s Life Satisfaction Scale Family α=0.68 Friends α= 0.83 Schoolα=0.83 Living environmentα=0.74 Self α =0.74 - BriefMultidimensionalStudent’s Life Satisfaction Scale α= 0.75 α total = 0.76

  19. The ‘CHILDREN LIFE SATISFACTION’ survey: study 1 The presenceofresearcher in the classes changes

  20. - Demographic information - Student’s Life Satisfaction Scale - MultidimensionalStudent’s Life Satisfaction Scale - BriefMultidimensionalStudent’s Life Satisfaction Scale - Face Scale - Weather Scale .brothers/sisters→ . Brothers . Sisters . My life isbetterthanmostkids →that I know . My family isbetterthanmostkids→that I know . Almostalways→ always . No change . Do youlikeyourneighbors? . Do youlikeyour house? . Do you like the area you live in? The ‘CHILDREN LIFE SATISFACTION’ survey: study 1 (changes)

  21. The ‘CHILDREN LIFE SATISFACTION’ survey: study 2 • Objective: survey childrens’ point of view • The questionnaire: - Demographic information - Student’s Life Satisfaction Scale - Multidimensional Student’s Life Satisfaction Scale - Brief Multidimensional Student’s Life Satisfaction Scale - Face Scale - Weather Scales

  22. The ‘CHILDREN LIFE SATISFACTION’ survey: study 2 • Sample: 254 children (III-IV-V of Primary School)

  23. The ‘CHILDREN LIFE SATISFACTION’ survey: study 2Analysisofinternalconsistency (Cronbach’s Alpha):

  24. Future applications • To compare the well being of towns, cities and countries • To be aware of the living conditions of these places. • Can be useful for many institutions: policy makers and school managements can use it to improve services for citizens.

  25. Thankyouforyourattention beatrice.tommasi@unifi.it Laboratorio di Statistica per la Ricerca Sociale e Educativa www.starse.it

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