A study of Children Well-Being Domains on 8 years old children in floodland Babakan Leuwi Bandung.

Anglia Rizkita, Farida Coralia

Abstract


Living in floodland sometimes influence children’s happiness. Generally, problems that appear in floodland are about environment, building, and houses. The over populated  environment make it dirty, improper, muddy, mosses are everywhere on the walls, those situations make the children uncomfortable to play around. to find out a clear picture of the children’s happiness is by finding their happiness domains. The most depressing domain can influence children well-being. The domain that depress the children who live in floodland are domain about houses and homes. Those are about house condition, the people who live in the house, the environment around the house, and their toys. This is a descriptive study aimed to describe children well-being domains with 16 of 8 years old children who live in floodland as the sample of research population. The instrument used is a Children Well-being questionnaire contains items about 8 domains of Life Satisfaction based on the theory of Subyektif Well-Being from Diener(2006). The results show that the most dominant domain on 8 years old children is about school, it means that they feel comfortable and consider the school as the second home so they feel safe and happy in the school and interact with their teachers and friends, and finally they can reach desired achievement, and they are happy to clean the school communally after flooding. And the lowest domain is about environment, it means that the children consider the neighborhood can harm and endanger them so they cannot play around the neighborhood, and make them sad to live in floodland.

Keywords


Children Well-Being, floodland, 8 years old children.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29313/.v0i0.3049

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