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Direct linkSiu, Oi-Ling; Phillips, David R. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2002
The "dual-channel" hypothesis (Lawton, 1996), which suggests the dual-antecedent pattern for positive and negative aspects of psychological well-being, was tested by examining the differential relationships between objective and subjective measures of family support (family contact, family quality, perceived importance of family) and…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Social Support Groups, Foreign Countries, Psychology
Cheng, Sheung-Tak; Chan, Alfred C. M.; Phillips, David R. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2004
What might add quality to life during the last period of the life cycle? In study I, five focus groups of elderly participants representing different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds provided descriptions of quality of life (QOL) from their own perspectives. These descriptions formed the basis of a questionnaire that was administered to a…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Quality of Life, Factor Structure, Questionnaires
