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Direct linkChen, Kun-Hu; Yao, Grace – Social Indicators Research, 2010
The aim of the study was to investigate the relation between self-identity and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in adolescence. This study assumed that four aspects (i.e. personal, social, ability, and academic identity) of identity firmness could predict adolescent's HRQOL more than four aspects of identity importance. Meanwhile, this study…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Self Concept
Wu, Chia-huei; Yao, Grace – Social Indicators Research, 2007
Importance weighting is a common practice in quality of life (QOL) measurement research. Based on the widespread idea that important domains should make a greater contribution to individuals' QOL total score, the weighting procedure of multiplying item satisfaction by an item's importance has been adopted in many QOL instruments. Locke's [1969,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Quality of Life, Foreign Countries
Yao, Grace; Cheng, Yen-Pi; Cheng, Chiao-Pi – Social Indicators Research, 2009
The AsiaBarometer survey of 1,006 respondents shows that in Taiwan, people have access to modern utilities and digital media, signs of materialistic achievement, and yet are more concerned with physical security and financial safety than with personal growth. Regardless of their demographic backgrounds and value priorities, the Taiwanese, like…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Foreign Countries, Asians, Asian Culture
Wu, Chia-Huei; Yao, Grace – Social Indicators Research, 2007
This study examined the relationship between global and domain measures of quality of life from a psychometric perspective by three different factor structure models. Three hundred and four students at National Taiwan University participated in this study. They completed the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS, a global measurement for quality of…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Quality of Life, Global Approach, Factor Structure
Wu, Chia-Huei; Yao, Grace – Social Indicators Research, 2006
Trauer and Mackinnon (2001; Quality of life research 10, pp. 579-585) recently proposed that weighting satisfaction scores by importance ratings in measuring quality of life is undesirable and unnecessary. However, they didn't use empirical data to support their claim. In this study, different weighting algorithms developed by Cummins (1997;…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Life Satisfaction, Weighted Scores, Correlation
Chen, Kun-Hu; Wu, Chia-Huei; Yao, Grace – Social Indicators Research, 2006
The WHOQOL-BREF is one of the cross-cultural and widely used measures for assessing health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Previous studies of the HRQOL using the WHOQOL-BREF mainly focused on adult; however, there has been less work carried out on assessing the HRQOL on early adolescence. The goal of this study was to examine the applicability…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Early Adolescents, Quality of Life, Junior High School Students
