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Reflective Component in the Structure of Children’s Subjective Well-Being

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The paper presents the first findings of the children’s subjective well-being survey in Russia, which was conducted among representative sample of over 1719 pupils aged 10 and 12 years from Tyumen region in 2017–2018. The study is a part of International Survey of Children’s Well-being (ISCWeB) – Children’s Worlds. The main purpose of the research was to classify children in the field reflexive (cognitive) indicators of subjective well-being. The authors suggest that subjective well-being is a global regulatory mechanism; the core of it is children correlation of internal and external through reflection. Two-stage cluster analysis with selected cognitive factors of subjective well-being (intrareflexive, interreflexive) provides to group children in three clusters which are homogeneous to the research object and to build typical patterns of these groups representatives. As a result of Analysis of variance, belonging to any cluster group statistically significant influence on such factors as Overall Subjective Well-Being, Positive and Negative Affects, Psychological Subjective Well-Being.

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  1. University of Tyumen, Volodarskogo St., 6, Tyumen, 625003, Russia

    Svetlana Ignatjeva, Zhanna Bruk & Tatiana Semenovskikh

  2. Daugavpils University, Vienibas street 13, Daugavpils, LV - 5401, Latvia

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Ignatjeva, S., Bruk, Z. & Semenovskikh, T. Reflective Component in the Structure of Children’s Subjective Well-Being. Child Ind Res 13, 609–634 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-019-09693-9

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