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Collaboration between School and Home to Improve Subjective Well-being: A New Chinese Children’s Subjective Well-being Scale

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Children’s psychological well-being is critical for students’ school performance and mental health. This study developed the Chinese Children’s Subjective Well-being Scale and explored an appropriate strategy to improve children’s subjective well-being from the collaboration between school and home perspective. Based on a literature review, focus group interviews, expert validity, factor structure and confirmatory factor analysis, this study developed the Chinese Children’s Subjective Well-being Scale. We then enrolled 289 grade 3–6 students from a public primary school in southeastern China to conduct multiple linear regression analysis. The Chinese Children’s Subjective Well-being Scale had good reliability and validity. Homework anxiety was negatively associated with subjective well-being (β = -0.21. p = 0.011). Family interaction and support improved subjective well-being. Less parental supervision and family conflict could buffer the negative effect of homework anxiety on subjective well-being. The Chinese Children’s Subjective Well-being Scale can be used with primary school students in China. This study also recommended that governments and education practitioners focus on optimizing collaboration between school and home to improve children’s subjective well-being by reducing their homework anxiety and increasing the harmonious family atmosphere (more family interaction and support and less parental supervision and family conflict).

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We would like to acknowledge all research assistants and investigators for their dedicated assistance in the data collection. We also would especially like to thank our participants in the study for their time and willingness to participate. The authors are fully responsible for the content of this study.

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This study was supported by the Respect the Aged and Care for the Young Family Development Fund of China Population Welfare Foundation (grant no. K81B1027), and the Scientific Research Grant of Fujian Province of China [grant no. Z0230104]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript.

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Conceptualization: Yi-Chen Chiang, Meijie Chu, Zhiwei Fang, Chun-Yang Lee and Xuehui Chen; Methodology: Meijie Chu, Zhiwei Fang, and Yi-Han Hu; Formal analysis and investigation: Meijie Chu, Zhiwei Fang, Yi-Han Hu, and Xuehui Chen; Writing—original draft preparation: Meijie Chu, Zhiwei Fang, and Yi-Han Hu; Writing—review and editing: Yi-Chen Chiang, Chun-Yang Lee, Xian Li, Shih-Han Chen, and Tianmu Chen; Funding acquisition: Tianmu Chen and Yi-Chen Chiang; Supervision: Yi-Chen Chiang and Xuehui Chen. All authors approved the final version, and all take responsibility for its content.

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Chu, M., Fang, Z., Lee, CY. et al. Collaboration between School and Home to Improve Subjective Well-being: A New Chinese Children’s Subjective Well-being Scale. Child Ind Res 16, 1527–1552 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-023-10018-0

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