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Direct linkPrieto-Flores, Maria-Eugenia; Moreno-Jimenez, Antonio; Fernandez-Mayoralas, Gloria; Rojo-Perez, Fermina; Forjaz, Maria Joao – Social Indicators Research, 2012
To analyze the influence of different health status dimensions and quality of life (QoL) domains on older adults' subjective health, and to assess the role that residential satisfaction plays in these relationships. A QoL survey was conducted on a representative sample of the community-dwelling older adult population in Madrid province (Spain).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Neighborhoods, Life Satisfaction
Headey, Bruce – Social Indicators Research, 2010
Set-point theory is the main research paradigm in the field of subjective well-being (SWB). It has been extended and refined for 30 years to take in new results. The central plank of the theory is that adult set-points do not change, except temporarily in the face of major life events. There was always some "discordant data," including…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Definitions, Adults, Foreign Countries
Veenhoven, Ruut – Social Indicators Research, 2010
Human society has changed much over the last centuries and this process of "modernization" has profoundly affected the lives of individuals; currently we live quite different lives from those forefathers lived only five generations ago. There is difference of opinion as to whether we live better now than before and consequently there is also…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Social Change, Social Indicators, Sociometric Techniques
Lai, Dejian – Social Indicators Research, 2009
After the first large scale national sampling survey on handicapped persons in 1987, China conducted its second national sampling survey in 2006. Using the data from these two surveys and the national life tables, we computed and compared the expected years of life free of handicapped condition by the Sullivan method. The expected years of life…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Surveys
Hsu, Hui-Chuan – Social Indicators Research, 2010
The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between subjective economic status and indicators of successful aging to life satisfaction trajectories among the elderly in Taiwan. Data were from the four waves of "Survey of Health and Living Status of the Elderly in Taiwan". Hierarchical linear modeling was conducted. Subjective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Status, Life Satisfaction, Older Adults
Scott-Marshall, Heather – Social Indicators Research, 2010
This study examines the association between work-related insecurity and health, with a focus on how this relationship is moderated by social location (gender, age and race). Drawing on longitudinal data from a Canadian labour market survey (1999-2004) the findings show that certain groups have a higher prevalence of exposure to certain types of…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), Job Satisfaction, Labor Market, Occupational Mobility
