POVERTY AND WELL-BEING: THE SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING STATUS OF POOR CHILDREN IN KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA
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https://doi.org/10.21837/pm.v21i30.1400Keywords:
Subjective well-being, Child subjective well-being, poverty, well-beingAbstract
Poverty has a devastating impact on the subjective well-being of urban children. Policymakers, social workers, economists, and researchers employ subjective well-being measurement in policy formulation, improving living conditions, and welfare, and addressing the essential needs, health, environmental, social relationship, and emotional and psychological needs of poor children. Subjective well-being indicators consist of dimensions such as life satisfaction affects life experience, emotion, psychological well-being, and social relationship well-being. All these indicators are crucial in understanding children's needs, and important in policy formulation. This paper will discuss the subjective well-being of poor children in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The discussion can be a direction for future researchers to conduct a similar study.
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