%0 Journal Article
%T THE RELATIONSHIP OF CHILDREN¡¯S AND PARENTS¡¯ EXPERIENCE OF
ECONOMIC PRESSURE WITH CHILDREN¡¯S WELL-BEING
%A Merka£¿
%A Marina
%J -
%D 2019
%R 10.21857/yvjrdcqw0y
%X Sa£¿etak The purpose of the paper is to examine the relationship between children¡¯s and parents¡¯ experiences of economic pressure and children¡¯s well-being. The paper empirically examines the extent to which children¡¯s experiences of economic pressure directly, along with parental experiences of economic pressure, and controlling for family income and parental education, contribute to the explanation of the level of hope, self-esteem, and life satisfaction in children. The participants in the study were children and both of their parents who participated in a short-term, two-wave longitudinal study within the scientific project ¡°Parents¡¯ work, family economic hardship and well-being of parents and children¡±. The children assessed the economic pressure that the family is experiencing due to economic hardship in the first measurement point, and their level of hope, self-esteem, and life satisfaction in the second measurement point. In the first measurement point, parents assessed the economic pressures they feel when they must reduce their child¡¯s expenses and provided information on family income and their educational level. The results showed that children¡¯s and parents¡¯ experiences of economic pressure were significantly and positively correlated, and that children¡¯s and parents¡¯ experiences of economic pressure measured in the first wave were significantly and negatively related with hope, self-esteem, and life satisfaction of children measured in the second wave. Three regression analyses, controlling for family income and parental education level, showed that children¡¯s experience of economic pressure was a significant and negative predictor of hope, self-esteem, and life satisfaction in children, while parental experience of economic pressure proved to be a significant and negative predictor of children¡¯s life satisfaction. In general, the results show that experience of higher economic pressure in children and parents is related with lower levels of well-being in children in adolescence
%K economic pressure
%K family
%K adolescence
%K well-being
%K longitudinal
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