Akgül Hanife, Güven Ahmet Zeki, Güven Sibel, Ceylan Müyesser
Faculty of Education, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale 17100, Türkiye.
Faculty of Education, Department of Turkish Language Education, Akdeniz University, Antalya 07070, Türkiye.
Children (Basel). 2023 Aug 23;10(9):1433. doi: 10.3390/children10091433.
The progress and development of society in every sense is possible by raising healthy individuals. To do so, it is necessary to ensure the physical and mental development of children in a healthy way. There are many variables that affect the physical and mental development of children. These variables are affected by individual factors, social structure, social interactions and cultural values. In addition, when these factors interact with each other, their effect on behavior and well-being may increase. Undoubtedly, one of the primary factors negatively affecting a child's physical and psychological development is the adverse economic conditions and hardships experienced by his/her family and consequently, by the child. Increasing poverty hinders children's access to resources, and thus negatively affects their mental health as well as their physical development. Furthermore, positive economic conditions pave the way for an improved environment, better nutrition, higher-quality education, elevated social status, more friends, reduced feelings of loneliness, and increased social support and trust and all of these positively contribute to psychological well-being. Therefore, based on the conviction that early interventions can be protective and screening is needed to determine the proper intervention, this study aims to investigate the relationship between psychological well-being, loneliness, social support and social trust, all of which affect the psychological health of children living in economically disadvantaged families. To this end, answers to the following questions were sought. Is there a significant relationship between the loneliness, social support, social trust and psychological well-being of the children from low-income families? Do the feelings of loneliness, social support and social trust of the children from low-income families significantly predict their psychological well-being?
从各方面来看，社会的进步与发展都离不开培养健康的个体。要做到这一点，就必须以健康的方式确保儿童的身心发展。有许多变量会影响儿童的身心发展。这些变量受到个体因素、社会结构、社会互动和文化价值观的影响。此外，当这些因素相互作用时，它们对行为和幸福的影响可能会增强。毫无疑问，对儿童身体和心理发展产生负面影响的主要因素之一是其家庭以及儿童自身所经历的不利经济状况和艰难困苦。日益加剧的贫困阻碍了儿童获取资源，从而对他们的心理健康以及身体发育都产生了负面影响。此外，良好的经济状况为改善环境、提供更好的营养、更高质量的教育、提升社会地位、结交更多朋友、减少孤独感以及增加社会支持和信任铺平了道路，所有这些都对心理健康有积极贡献。因此，基于早期干预具有保护作用且需要进行筛查以确定适当干预措施这一信念，本研究旨在调查心理幸福感、孤独感、社会支持和社会信任之间的关系，所有这些因素都会影响生活在经济弱势家庭中的儿童的心理健康。为此，研究试图回答以下问题。低收入家庭儿童的孤独感、社会支持、社会信任与心理幸福感之间是否存在显著关系？低收入家庭儿童的孤独感、社会支持和社会信任是否能显著预测他们的心理幸福感？
