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    Notions of well-being, the state of child well-being research and the MYWEB project

    Pollock, Gary ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6673-2368, Ozan, Jessica and Goswami, Haridhan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7045-7407 (2018) Notions of well-being, the state of child well-being research and the MYWEB project. In: Measuring Youth Well-being: how a pan-European longitudinal survey can improve policy. Children's Well-Being: Indicators and Research (19). Springer, Cham, pp. 1-13. ISBN 9783319760629 (hardcover); 9783030093938 (softcover); 9783319760636 (ebook)

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    Abstract

    There has been a growing interest among academics, policy makers and practitioners in the subjective well-being of children and young people (CYP). The recognition of CYP’s rights to having a good childhood and good future life chances, coupled with the injunction from the New Sociology of Childhood to consult with CYP as active agents have resulted in an increasing number of studies on children and young people’s well-being at national and international levels. However, the design, content, and modes of data collection used in these surveys are influenced by the question of the extent to which the researchers view children and young people as similar or different to adults and which participatory models they are undertaking for the young people in the study. However, the design, content, and modes of data collection used in these surveys are influenced by a number of factors including conceptual underpinning of well-being, its measurement and participatory model(s) used by the researchers for children in those surveys. This chapter reviews these aspects before describing the structure of this book with summaries of each subsequent chapter.

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