Journal of Home Economics of Japan
Online ISSN : 1882-0352
Print ISSN : 0913-5227
ISSN-L : 0913-5227
Proposal for a Framework and Indicators for a Life Evaluation Index of Children’s Subjective Well-being
Miki KOSAKAChikako NAKAMORI
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2020 Volume 71 Issue 10 Pages 631-647

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  The purpose of this study is to propose a framework and indicators for a life evaluation index to be used as a representative index of children's subjective well-being.

  Analysis of representative domestic and international children's well-being indexes and subjective well-being indexes identified that there is a need for an index that measures their actual life states in specific life contexts to evaluate children's lives, creating a framework for gaining a comprehensive understanding of children's lives and the early detection and prevention of issues.

  This study uses the comprehensive “framework of life” perspective provided by Nakayama (1997), in which the child's actual life states comprises life behaviors centering on home life as well as the living environment that defines these behaviors. The child's living environment consists of material conditions, referring to the material resources of the household, and family environment conditions, referring to the family rules. These specific indexes respond to the establishment of specific life contexts based on four independence factors: life independence, economic independence, social independence, and emotional independence. Moreover, the standards for independence of the behaviors are based on the educational content of government curriculum guidelines centering on the subject of home economics.

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