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The Subjective Well-Being Of Youth Heads Of Households In Rural Southern Malawi, Pamela Fruechting
The Subjective Well-Being Of Youth Heads Of Households In Rural Southern Malawi, Pamela Fruechting
Theses and Dissertations
Youth-headed households in HIV-endemic sub-Saharan Africa face harsh realities of poverty and loss of parental care. Scientific knowledge of these youth is generally limited to socio-economic and psychological indicators of vulnerability while much less is known about youth-centric meanings of well-being. This is the first known study on the subjective well-being of youth heads of households.
The purpose of this exploratory, youth-centric, qualitative study was to identify experiences of subjective well-being, factors for regulating well-being, and meanings of well-being among youth heads of household in the Thyolo and Chiradzulu districts of rural southern Malawi. The theoretical foundation for this study …