Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University, Caulfield East, VIC, Australia.
Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University, Caulfield East, VIC, Australia.
Value Health. 2024 Jun;27(6):767-775. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2024.02.010. Epub 2024 Feb 28.
This study aimed to investigate the relative importance of key life domains of early adolescents and to explore the heterogeneities across age cohorts and countries at different levels of economic development.
The repeated cross-sectional survey data for 10 countries (England, Israel, Romania, Norway, Malta, Nepal, Estonia, Ethiopia, South Korea, and Germany) from the second (2013-2014) and third (2016-2019) waves of the International Survey of Children's Well-Being study were used. Early adolescents from the 10- and 12-year age groups were included. A total of 14 key life domains were investigated on their influence to the global life satisfaction. Partial least squares structural equation modeling was used and an importance-performance map analysis was conducted.
A total of 23 732 respondents in wave 2 (49% from 10-year-old group) and 22 265 respondents in wave 3 (50% from 10-year-old group) were studied. On average, possessions and safety are the top 2 most important domains within the second wave for 10-year-olds. However, when split based on country-income groups, health comes out on top for low-to-middle-income countries followed by possessions, with safety domain ranking much lower at seventh. For the 12-year-old group, possessions and safety rank highest on average irrespective of the country's level of income. Although areas of priority varied across countries, future came out as one of the most important areas adolescents considered needing improvement across age groups and over time.
Findings from this study revealed substantial heterogeneity across nations and provide important information for prioritizing policy implementation to improve subjective well-being among early adolescents.
本研究旨在探讨早期青少年关键生活领域的相对重要性，并探索不同经济发展水平国家的年龄队列之间的异质性。
本研究使用了来自国际儿童福利调查研究第二（2013-2014 年）和第三（2016-2019 年）波次的来自 10 个国家（英国、以色列、罗马尼亚、挪威、马耳他、尼泊尔、爱沙尼亚、埃塞俄比亚、韩国和德国）的重复横断面调查数据。研究对象为 10 岁和 12 岁年龄组的早期青少年。共调查了 14 个关键生活领域对全球生活满意度的影响。采用偏最小二乘结构方程模型，并进行了重要性-绩效映射分析。
在第二波次中，共有 23732 名（其中 49%来自 10 岁组）和在第三波次中，共有 22265 名（其中 50%来自 10 岁组）受访者被纳入研究。平均而言，在第二波次中，10 岁组的受访者认为财产和安全是最重要的前两个领域。然而，当根据国家收入组别进行细分时，对于中低收入国家而言，健康是最重要的，其次是财产，而安全领域的排名则低至第七位。对于 12 岁组的受访者，无论国家收入水平如何，财产和安全平均而言都是最重要的领域。尽管优先领域因国家而异，但未来成为了青少年认为需要在各个年龄段和不同时间点改善的最重要领域之一。
本研究结果揭示了国家之间存在显著的异质性，并为优先实施政策以改善早期青少年的主观幸福感提供了重要信息。
