Looking for thoughts into this idea.
Can parents owning house influence how their children subjectively view their life satisfaction or rate their happiness index. Does it have an impact? If yes, then what mechanism can be there to argue this point.
Hi Kushneel,
I appreciate your idea but it has raised a number of questions into my mind.
I think before studying influence of parents owning a house on children's well-being. We should first clarify the children's level e.g. age and their motivational level (for example in context of Maslows hierarchy). Do they really value ownership of a house by their parents? or they have some other life-aspirations. Furthermore, you can also add some other determinants of children's' well-being.
So, you can explore general determinants of children well-being and then specifically the impact of parents owing a house as a moderator.
I hope my input can be useful for your research.
Hi Kushneel,
The relationship that you want to analyse is interesting but also difficult to capture methodologically in terms of establishing a causal link. This is generally due to the fact that a lot of the determinants of homeownership may also influence a child's well being.
There a couple of papers tackling the issue through the use of different datasets, methods and also a variation of proxies for well being/happiness/life satisfaction:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1051137799902486
Article Does Home Ownership Affect Child Outcomes?
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02673030120105857
Article Home Ownership and School Outcomes of Children: Evidence fro...
Best,
Rodica
Thank you Mubshra and Rodica for your thoughts and input into this.
Mubshra - I appreciate your pointer to Maslows hierarchy. I see your point to probably use moderation analysis. But I am still not sure, how theoretically we can argue that the act of parents owning home improves their childrens SUBJECTIVE well-being (life satisfaction, happiness).
Rodica - Thanks for directing me to those papers. I actually did have a look at those papers before and realise that they are all discussing on child objective outcomes and not really on SUBJECTIVE well-being (life satisfaction and happiness or sense of achievement).
Best,
Kushneel
I agree with Mubshra sattar's answer. To study the influence of parents owning a house on children's well-being. I think we need to control these factors like children's level e.g. age, education etc and also their motivational level.
Hi Hushnell.
It is true that the well-being of children should be examined interactively. The number of moderators of the relationship of having a home - well-being is virtually infinite. A good model of the relationship between selected variables is needed. Your own home is a way of life, not just prosperity.
Best regards
Hi Kushneel,
I suggest you to first make a model for the proposed relationships that you wish you study and then support them with theory and some existing research.
Good luck!
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