Table 1 Classification framework for well-being domains and subdomainsa
Domain | Subdomains |
|---|---|
(1) Good health and optimum nutrition | • Physical health and capacities • Mental health and capacities • Optimal nutritional status and diet |
(2) Connectedness, positive values, and contribution to society | • Connectedness: is part of positive social and cultural networks and has positive, meaningful relationships with others, including family, peers, and, where relevant, teachers and employers • Valued and respected by others and accepted as part of the community • Attitudes: responsible, caring, and has respect for others; has a sense of ethics, integrity, and morality • Interpersonal skills: empathy, friendship skills, and sensitivity • Activity: socially, culturally, and civically active • Change and development: equipped to contribute to change and development in their own lives and/or in their communities |
(3) Safety and a supportive environment | • Safety: emotional and physical safety • Material conditions in the physical environment are met • Equity: treated fairly and have an equal chance in life • Equality: equal distribution of power, resources, rights, and opportunities for all • Nondiscrimination • Privacy • Responsive: enriching the opportunities available to the adolescent |
(4) Learning, competence, education, skills, and employability | • Learning: has the commitment to, and motivation for, continual learning • Education • Resources, life skills, and competencies: has the necessary cognitive, social, creative, and emotional resources; skills (life/decision-making); and competencies to thrive, including knowing their rights and how to claim them, and how to plan and make choices • Skills: acquisition of technical, vocational, business, and creative skills to be able to take advantage of current or future economic, cultural, and social opportunities • Employability • Confidence that they can do things well |
(5) Agency and resilience | • Agency: has self-esteem; a sense of agency and of being empowered to make meaningful choices and to influence their social, political, and material environment; and capacity for self-expression and self-direction appropriate to their evolving capacities and stage of development • Identity: feels comfortable in their own self and with their identity(s), including their physical, cultural, social, sexual, and gender identity • Purpose: has a sense of purpose, desire to succeed, and optimism about the future • Resilience: equipped to handle adversities both now and in the future, in a way that is appropriate to their evolving capacities and stage of development • Fulfilment: feels that they are fulfilling their potential now and that they will be able to do so in the future |