dc.contributor.advisor | Savahl, Shazly | |
dc.contributor.author | Noordien, Zorina | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-21T07:41:51Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-05-21T07:41:51Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4163 | |
dc.description | Magister Artium - MA | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Recent advancements in child well-being research have shown an increased interest in the importance of subjective well-being. The development of instruments and scales to measure subjective well-being among children and adolescents is in its infancy. Furthermore, there are few existing cross-cultural studies with child and adolescent populations. Validation of existing measures and cross-cultural comparisons has been identified by a number of researchers as critical in contributing to the international dialogue. In the current study, two measures of subjective well-being (Student Life Satisfaction Scale and Personal Well-Being Index-School Children) are tested among a sample of children in the Western Cape region of South Africa. Noting the diversity of experience between children from different socio-economic status groups in South Africa, the study further aims to determine the extent to which the measures are comparable across socio-economic status groups. Data from the Children’s World Survey were used; and includes a sample of 1004 children randomly selected from 15 schools within the Cape Town Metropole. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the overall fit structure and multi-group factor analysis, with Scalar and Metric invariance constraints. The results show appropriate fit structure for the overall model, with Scalar and Metric factor invariance tenable across socio-economic status groups. The overall findings suggest that the two measures are appropriate for use with children from low and medium socio-economic status groups in the Western Cape province of South Africa. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of the Western Cape | en_US |
dc.subject | Subjective well-being | en_US |
dc.subject | Children | en_US |
dc.subject | Socio-economic status | en_US |
dc.subject | Confirmatory factor analysis | en_US |
dc.title | Testing two measures of subjective well-being amongst a sample of children in the Western Cape | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | University of the Western Cape | en_US |