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The main purpose of the present study was to find out what makes up child well-being from a caregiver’s and a child’s perspective in the given subculture more than four years after the Indian Ocean Tsunami. Both, caregivers and children had the opportunity to shape the well-being concept. Out of the results, four major conclusions referring to the composition of children’s well-being have emerged: (1) Mothers’ well-being needs to be secured in order to enable children’s well-being, (2) Disasters enable and promote social change, (3) Importance of social relationships and enabling of new relationships and networks after disaster and (4) The imperative of defining cultural child well-being indicators.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-1-IOF, Marie Curie Actions—International Outgoing Fellowships (IOF) under grant agreement no. 220535.
We would like to thank all children and mothers for their enthusiastic and valuable contributions during the focus group discussions. We also would like to acknowledge the invaluable support of SOS Children’s Villages India, particularly Mr. Siddharta Kaul—current President of SOS Children’s Villages International. We are grateful to the research team in India who contributed in very significant ways to the study described here: R. Kumuthavalli and G. Vijai Amirtharaj.
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Exenberger, S., Juen, B. (2014). Conclusions. In: Well-Being, Resilience and Quality of Life from Children’s Perspectives. SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7519-0_6
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