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Tiliouine, Habib; Cummins, Robert A.; Davern, Melanie – Social Indicators Research, 2006
The International Wellbeing Index (IWI) has been developed as a complementary measure to already well-known economic measures, and as a tool for cross-cultural comparisons. It comprises two subscales: the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) and the National Wellbeing Index (NWI). The aims of this paper are two-fold. Firstly, to test the psychometric…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Marital Status, Developed Nations, Females
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Siu, 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