摘要： The purpose of the paper is to examine the relationship between children’s and parents’ experiences of economic pressure and children’s well-being. The paper empirically examines the extent to which children’s experiences of economic pressure directly, along with parental experiences of economic pressure, and controlling for family income and parental education, contribute to the explanation of the level of hope, self-esteem, and life satisfaction in children. The participants in the study were children and both of their parents who participated in a short-term, two-wave longitudinal study within the scientific project “Parents’ work, family economic hardship and well-being of parents and children”. The children assessed the economic pressure that the family is experiencing due to economic hardship in the first measurement point, and their level of hope, self-esteem, and life satisfaction in the second measurement point. In the first measurement point, parents assessed the economic pressures they feel when they must reduce their child’s expenses and provided information on family income and their educational level. The results showed that children’s and parents’ experiences of economic pressure were significantly and positively correlated, and that children’s and parents’ experiences of economic pressure measured in the first wave were significantly and negatively related with hope, self-esteem, and life satisfaction of children measured in the second wave. Three regression analyses, controlling for family income and parental education level, showed that children’s experience of economic pressure was a significant and negative predictor of hope, self-esteem, and life satisfaction in children, while parental experience of economic pressure proved to be a significant and negative predictor of children’s life satisfaction. In general, the results show that experience of higher economic pressure in children and parents is related with lower levels of well-being in children in adolescence.
