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The Subjective Wellbeing of Indigenous Australian Adolescents: Validating the Personal Wellbeing Index-School Children
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Tomyn, Adrian J.; Norrish, Jacolyn M.; Cummins, Robert A. – Social Indicators Research, 2013
By almost all measures of objective life quality, Indigenous Australians are disadvantaged relative to the general population. However, no measures of their Subjective Wellbeing (SWB) have been published. This paper presents the first such data, norm-referenced to the general Australian population. A total of 519 Indigenous adolescents, aged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Measures (Individuals), Indigenous Populations
Comparing Multiple Discrepancies Theory to Affective Models of Subjective Wellbeing
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Blore, Jed D.; Stokes, Mark A.; Mellor, David; Firth, Lucy; Cummins, Robert A. – Social Indicators Research, 2011
The Subjective Wellbeing (SWB) literature is replete with competing theories detailing the mechanisms underlying the construction and maintenance of SWB. The current study aimed to compare and contrast two of these approaches: multiple discrepancies theory (MDT) and an affective-cognitive theory of SWB. MDT posits SWB to be the result of perceived…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models, Personality Traits, Goodness of Fit