Measuring Youth Well-being How a Pan-European Longitudinal Survey Can Improve Policy /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pollock, Gary (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ozan, Jessica (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Goswami, Haridhan (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rees, Gwyther (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Stasulane, Anita (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Children's Well-Being: Indicators and Research, 19
• Subjects: Well-being.; Children.; Social policy.; Child development.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Social sciences.; Child Well-being.; Social Policy.; Early Childhood Education.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.

This volume presents key findings from the EU funded Measuring Youth Well-being (MYWeB) project which assessed the feasibility of a European Longitudinal Study for Children and Young People (ELSCYP). It draws on the original empirical data from a panel of experts in the field of child well-being as...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1. The Complex Nature of Well-being: From Academic Definitions to Policy Programmes
• Chapter 1. The Notion of Well-being Across Contexts and Countries (Gary Pollock)
• Chapter 2. Child and Youth Well-Being on the European Political Agenda (Britta Busse)
• Chapter 3. A Comparative Expert Survey on Measuring and Enhancing Well-being in Europe (Jessica Ozan)
• Chapter 4. Conceptions of Well-being and Differences Among Children and Young People in Europe (Alexandros Sakellariou)
• Part 2. Measuring Children and Young People's Well-being
• Chapter 5. Strengths and Shortcomings of Survey of Children and Young People Well-being (Haridhan Goswami)
• Chapter 6. Longitudinal Research on Children and Young People in Europe and Beyond (Britta Busse)
• Chapter 7. Current Attempts to Measure Children and Young People Well-being (Zsuzsa Szántó)
• Chapter 8. How to Develop Well-being Survey Questions for Young Children: Lessons Learned from Cross-cultural Cognitive Interviews (Renata Franc)
• Part 3. Possibilities for Further Research
• Chapter 9. Challenges in Conducting a New Longitudinal Study on Children and Young People Well-being in European Union (Gary Pollock)
• Chapter 10. Strategies and Methodological Challenges for Involving Children and Young People in a Research on Wellbeing (Mariona Ferrer-Fons)
• Chapter 11. With a View Towards the Future: Different Options to Measure the Well-being of Children and Young People Across Europe longitudinally (Jessica Ozan)
• Chapter 12. The Potential Policy Benefits of Measuring Child Wellbeing Across Europe (Chris O'Leary).