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This chapter analyzes the relationship between well-being and safety. Subjective well-being (SWB) concerns the evaluation that people make of their lives, including their emotional reactions to events, moods, and the judgments they make about their satisfaction with life (Diener et al., Annual Review of Psychology 54:403–425, 2003). For this study, the International Survey of Children’s Well-Being (ISCWeB) instrument was used. For the SWB assessment, comprehensive one-dimensional measures of overall life satisfaction (OLS) and the modified Student Life Satisfaction Scale (SLSS) were used. Safety was assessed both globally and in three dimensions: home, school, and neighborhood (nearby area). The work was carried out with children from the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. With a sample made up of: 1483 children between 8 and 12 years old. The study found that as children get older, there is a decrease in their self-perception of well-being. Furthermore, security allows to explain part of the variation in well-being. In the 12-year-old group, the safe home variable has significant explanatory power for well-being. In the 10-year-old group, the safe at school variable has the highest explanatory power and in the 8-year-old group, the three variables (home safe, school safe, safe in the nearby area) had the same power explanatory.
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Benatuil, D. (2022). Well-Being and Safety in Children from Buenos Aires, Argentina. In: Tiliouine, H., Benatuil, D., Lau, M.K.W. (eds) Handbook of Children’s Risk, Vulnerability and Quality of Life. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01783-4_5
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