Between Vulnerability and Agency: review of Handbook of Children’s Risk, Vulnerability and Quality of Life

The article presents an overview of the book “Handbook of Children’s Risk, Vulnerability and Quality of Life”, edited by H. Tiliouine, D. Benatuil, M.K.W. Lau, highlighting the results of the children`s subjective well-being study within the project “Children’s Worlds: The International Survey of Children’s Well-Being”. The authors of the article offer a brief overview of the chapters on the impact of vulnerability, security, bullying and cyberbullying, pastime, and school life on the well-being of children living on five different continents.

1. Bruk Zh.Yu., Telitsyna A.Yu. Aktual’nye voprosy, rezul’taty i perspektivy razvitiya issledovanii mezhdunarodnogo proekta po izucheniyu sub”ektivnogo blagopoluchiya detei “Detskie Miry” (obzor po itogam mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii “Perspektivy vnedreniya indeksa detskogo blagopoluchiya v Rossii”) [Elektronnyi resurs] [Current issues, results and prospects for the development of research of the international project on the study of subjective well-being of children “Children’s Worlds” (review of the results of the international scientific and practical conference “Prospects for the introduction of the index of child well-being in Russia”)]. Sotsial’nye nauki i detstvo = Social Sciences and Childhood, 2022. Vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 148–158. DOI:10.17759/ssc.2022030211 (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.).
2. Bruk Zh.Yu., Ignatzheva S.V., Frolenkova A.L. Detskii mir. Sub”ektivnoe blagopoluchie detei Tyumenskoi oblasti [Children’s world. Subjective well-being of children in Tyumen region]. Monograph. Moscow: Znanie-M [Knowledge-M], 2021. 194 p. (In Russ.).
3. Konventsiya o pravakh rebenka. Prinyata rezolyutsiei 44/25 General’noi Assamblei ot 20 noyabrya 1989 goda [Elektronnyi resurs] [The Convention on the Rights of the Child. Adopted by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of November 20, 1989]. Ofitsial’nyi sait OON [UN Official website], 2023. URL: https://www.un.org/ru/documents/decl_conv/conventions/childcon.shtml (Accessed 05.03.2024).
4. Sem’ya G.V., Zaitsev G.O., Zaitseva N.G., Telitsyna A.Yu. Vliyanie nasiliya v kiberprostranstve na sub”ektivnoe blagopoluchie podrostkov [Elektronnyi resurs] [The Impact of Violence in Cyberspace on the Subjective Well-being of Adolescents]. Sotsial’nye nauki i detstvo = Social Sciences and Childhood, 2023. Vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 32–46. DOI:10.17759/ssc.2023040302 (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.).
5. Borualogo I.S., Casas F. Understanding Bullying Cases in Indonesia in Handbook of Children’s Risk, Vulnerability and Quality of Life. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life by Tiliouine H., Benatuil D., Lau M.K.W. (eds.). Cham: Springer, 2022, pp. 187–199. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-01783-4_12
6. Bruk Z., Ignatjeva S., Volosnikova L., Sianko N. Does age matter? Life satisfaction and subjective well-being among children aged 10 and 12 in Russia. Population Review, 2021. Vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 75–96. DOI:10.1353/PRV.2021.0004
7. Cefai C., Kereszte N., Galea N., el Spiteri R. The Well-being and Inclusion of Children from Africa and the Middle East Living in Malta in Handbook of Children’s Risk, Vulnerability and Quality of Life. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life by Tiliouine H., Benatuil D., Lau M.K.W. (eds.). Cham: Springer, 2022, pp. 313–327. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-01783-4_20
8. Fattore T., Fegter S., Hunner-Kreisel C. The Value of Transnational, Qualitative Comparative Research on Children’s Vulnerability: Methodological and Epistemological Reflections in Handbook of Children’s Risk, Vulnerability and Quality of Life. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life by Tiliouine H., Benatuil D., Lau M.K.W. (eds.). Cham: Springer, 2022, pp. 33–51. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-01783-4_3
9. Goswami H., Khalil M.I., Banik B.K. Influence of Vulnerability on Subjective Well-Being and Self-Perceived Safety Among Bangladeshi Children in Handbook of Children’s Risk, Vulnerability and Quality of Life. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life by Tiliouine H., Benatuil D., Lau M.K.W. (eds.). Cham: Springer, 2022, pp. 151–167. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-01783-4_10
10. Handbook of Children’s Risk, Vulnerability and Quality of Life. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life by Tiliouine H., Benatuil D., Lau M.K.W. (eds.). Cham: Springer, 2022, p. 449. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-01783-4_1
11. Kapllanaj M., Sianko N., Gjedia R. Exploring After-School Activities by Socio-Demographic Characteristics and Subjective Well-Being in Handbook of Children’s Risk, Vulnerability and Quality of Life. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life by Tiliouine H., Benatuil D., Lau M.K.W. (eds.). Cham: Springer, 2022, pp. 371–389. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-01783-4_23
12. Tiliouine H. Understanding Factors Challenging Children’s Well-Being in Algeria: A Research Synthesis in Handbook of Children’s Risk, Vulnerability and Quality of Life. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life by Tiliouine H., Benatuil D., Lau M.K.W. (eds.). Cham: Springer, 2022, pp. 329–352. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-01783-4_21
13. Tiliouine H., Benatuil D., Lau M.K.W. Handbook of Children’s Risk, Vulnerability and Quality of Life: An Introduction in Handbook of Children’s Risk, Vulnerability and Quality of Life. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life by Tiliouine H., Benatuil D., Lau M.K.W. (eds.). Cham: Springer, 2022, p. 449. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-01783-4_1
14. Varela J.J., González C., Sánchez P.A., Guzmán P.M., Olaya-Torres A. Cyberbullying as a New Form of Aggression: A Theoretical Review and Implications for Adolescent Well-Being in Handbook of Children’s Risk, Vulnerability and Quality of Life. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life by Tiliouine H., Benatuil D., Lau M.K.W. (eds.). Cham: Springer, 2022, pp. 201–212. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-01783-4_13