par Amerijckx, Gaëlle ;Humblet, Claire Perrine
Référence Children & society, 28, 5, page (404-415)
Publication Publié, 2013-05-09
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : The notion of child wellbeing appears in a large number of publications nowadays. Our review of the literature underlines both the oddly pathogenic approach to child wellbeing and the scarcity of papers discussing a still poorly-defined notion. Through this review, we identified the recourse to a binary language; from there we derived five theoretical axes that heed the multidimensional and multilevel nature of wellbeing, though for each one, a pole is here predominantly developed. We argue in favour of an override of a one-dimensional, single-level, unipolar approach to child wellbeing and an exploration of its otherwise underdeveloped positive, hedonic, subjective, spiritual and collective dimensions.