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The primary goal of this study was to investigate the mediator effects of loneliness and subjective happiness on the relationship between core self-evaluations and life satisfaction in Chinese college students. A total of 301 participants were all students who were attending three different Chinese colleges in Nanchang, Xi’an and Yan’an. Data were collected by using the Core Self-evaluations Scale, UCLA Loneliness Scale, Subjective Happiness Scale and Satisfaction with Life Scale. Path revealed that subjective happiness fully mediated the relationship between core self-evaluations and life satisfaction. Furthermore, the association between core self-evaluations and life satisfaction was not mediated by loneliness and subjective happiness partially mediated the association between core self-evaluations and loneliness. The final model also showed a significant path from core self-evaluations through subjective happiness to life satisfaction and loneliness. Limitations of the study are considered and implications of the results for increasing individuals’ life satisfaction are discussed. 相似文献
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Viren Swami 《Social indicators research》2008,88(2):347-353
The Subjective Happiness Scale (Lyubomirsky and Lepper, Social Indicators Research, 46, 137–155, 1999) is a brief measure for assessing subjective happiness. The reliability and validity of the Malay version
of the Subjective Happiness Scale was investigated in a community sample of 290 Chinese and 227 Malays in Malaysia. Results
showed that the Malay Subjective Happiness Scale has excellent internal consistency, a unitary structure, and stability over
a 30-day period and across ethnic groups. Moreover, the Malay version of the scale exhibited good convergent validity with
single-item happiness scales. The availability of the Malay Subjective Happiness Scale is expected to facilitate the examination
of happiness in Malay-speaking populations. 相似文献
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Christoph Randler 《Social indicators research》2008,86(2):297-302
Individual differences in diurnal preferences and circadian rhythms are viewed as an interesting dimension of human personality.
Previous research has examined various psychological correlates of diurnal preference. Evening types reported psychological
and psychosomatic disturbances more frequently and intensively than morning types and morning types have a healthier lifestyle
than evening types. Depression was also related to eveningness as were bulimic behaviour and seasonal affected disorders (SAD).
Given these studies, one would expect a positive relationship between satisfaction with life or happiness (general well-being;
Diener et al. (J Pers Assess 49:71–75, 1985)) and morningness. There was a significant positive correlation between morningness and satisfaction with life (r = 0.177; p = 0.023; N = 164). 相似文献
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The aim of the current study was to examine the role of satisfaction-with-event as a mediator in the relations between flow
and life satisfaction based on the bottom-up theory (Andrews and Withey in Social indicators of well-being: Americans’ perceptions
of life quality. Plenum, New York, 1976; Lee et al. in J Macromarketing 22(2): 158–169, 2002). Four hundred and thirty-four participants with a mean age of 35.60 (SD = 11.76) were recruited from the audience of a “Cirque
du Soleil” acrobatics show, performed in Taiwan in 2009. Participants completed the flow scale (Csikszentmihalyi in Flow:
the psychology of optimal experience. Harper & Row, New York, 1990), a satisfaction-with-event scale (Lin and Hsu in Mark Rev 3(4): 497–528, 2008), and a satisfaction-with-life scale (Diener et al. in J Pers Assess 49:71–75, 1985) immediately after viewing the show. Structural equation modeling was conducted to examine our hypothesis that satisfaction-with-event
levels would fully mediate the relationship between flow and overall life satisfaction. Results supported our prediction and
are discussed in terms of bottom-up theory. Implications of the study are also provided for the leisure managers. 相似文献
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The factors associated with cognitions about problematic Internet use have been empirically tested in various studies. The
aim of the present study was to examine the mediator roles of both life satisfaction and self-esteem between affective components
of subjective well-being and cognitions about problematic Internet use. For this purpose, the model that was conceptualized
by Davis (Comput Human Behav 17:187–195, 2001), Caplan (Comput Human Behav 18:553–575 2002), and Lent et al. (J Vocat Behav 74:190–198 2009) was modified and used as the theoretical framework for this study. The impacts of life satisfaction and self-esteem on the
association between affective components of psychological well-being (positive and negative) and cognitions about problematic
Internet use were tested by using structural equation modeling (SEM) in a sample of 480 Turkish university students. The results
reveal that by playing a mediator role, self-esteem impacted positive/negative affect and life satisfaction and, hence, indirectly
influenced cognitions about problematic Internet use. Examining the roles of self-esteem and subjective well-being will provide
a new starting point for further studies. 相似文献
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There is ongoing discussion in the scientific literature about the need for a more theoretical foundation to underpin quality
of life (QoL) measurement. This paper applied Keyes et al.’s [J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 82 (2002) 1007] model of well-being as a framework to assess whether respondents (n = 136 students) focus on elements of subjective well-being (SWB), such as satisfaction and happiness, or on elements of psychological
well-being (PWB), such as meaning and personal growth, when making individual QoL (IQoL) judgments using the Schedue of the
Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life (SEIQoL). The Keyes et al.’s model was confirmed and explained 41% of the variance
in SEIQoL scores. Both SWB and PWB were correlated with the SEIQoL Index Score and SWB was found to be an important mediating
variable in the relationship between PWB and SEIQoL. When analyzing different well-being combinations, respondents with high
SWB/high PWB had significantly higher SEIQoL scores than did those with low SWB/low PWB. Respondents with high PWB/high SWB
had higher SEIQoL scores than did those with high PWB/low SWB. Longitudinal studies in different patient groups are needed
to explore the dynamic relationship between IQoL and well-being. Further investigation of the relationship between PWB and
SWB with other instruments purporting to measure QoL would contribute to an enhanced understanding of the underlying nature
of QoL. 相似文献
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The present study investigated theoretically and empirically derived similarities and differences between the constructs of
enduring happiness and self-esteem. Participants (N = 621), retired employees ages 51–95, completed standardized measures of affect, personality, psychosocial characteristics,
physical health, and demographics. The relations between each of the two target variables (happiness and self-esteem) and
the full set of remaining variables were assessed through a series of successive statistical analyses: (1) simple Pearson’s
correlations, (2) partial correlations, and (3) hierarchical regression analyses. The results revealed that happiness and
self-esteem, while highly correlated (r = 0.58), presented unique patterns of relations with the other measured variables. The best predictors of happiness were
the following: mood and temperamental traits (i.e., extraversion and neuroticism), social relationships (lack of loneliness
and satisfaction with friendships), purpose in life, and global life satisfaction. By contrast, self-esteem was best predicted
by dispositions related to agency and motivation (i.e., optimism and lack of hopelessness). Implications for the understanding
of happiness and self-esteem are discussed. 相似文献
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Gratitude and Adolescent Athletes’ Well-Being 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Two cross-sectional studies were conducted to examine the relationships between gratitude and athletes’ well-being. Study
1 examines the relationship between dispositional gratitude and well-being, while Study 2 investigates the relationship between
sport-domain gratitude and well-being. In Study 1, 169 Taiwanese senior high school athletes (M = 16.43, SD = 0.7 years) were
administered the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ; McCullough et al. 2002, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82(1), 112–127), Team Satisfaction Scale (Walling et al. 1993, Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 15, 172–183), Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS; Diener et al. 1985, Journal of Personality Assessment, 49, 71–75), and the Athlete Burnout Questionnaire (ABQ; Raedeke and Smith, 2001, Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 23(4), 281–306). In Study 2, a separate sample of 265 adolescent athletes (M = 16.47 years, SD = 0.7) were administered the
modified Sport-domain GQ, Team Satisfaction Scale, and ABQ. Study 1 results showed that dispositional gratitude positively
predicts team satisfaction and life satisfaction, and negatively predicts athlete burnout. Findings from Study 2 revealed
that sport-domain gratitude positively predicts team satisfaction and negatively predicts athlete burnout. A stronger gratitude
and well-being relationship was observed in Study 2. This research provides the initial verification that gratitude and adolescent
athletes’ well-being are related. Possible mechanism of this relation, limitations, and practical implications are discussed. 相似文献
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We demonstrate that people from Chinese cultural backgrounds have a smaller positive tendency in life evaluation compared
to people in typical Western cultures. Participants first described their imagined best and worst life and then rated their
current life on scale anchored by those imaginings (Mellor et al. International Journal of Social Research Methodology Theory and Practice,
2, 263–278, 1999), with scores above 50 indicating the strength of positive tendency. We compare responses from 82 Taiwanese
students to data from the 22 Australian students in Mellor et al.’s (International Journal of Social Research Methodology Theory and Practice,
2, 263–278, 1999) study. Results of independent t tests support the hypothesis that culturally Chinese subjects have a lower
positive tendency (65.32%SM) than Australian participants (76.12%SM) in life satisfaction evaluation.
Shih-jung Lee and Chia-huei Wu have made equal contributions to this study. 相似文献
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This paper presents a comparison of Canadian and American university students on happiness and satisfaction as measured by the Satisfaction and Happiness Survey (Michalos, 1985). For the American sample, the findings for other measures of satisfaction and happiness, as well as for hope as measured by the Hope Index (Staats and Stassen, 1986), are also reported. American students had slightly higher means on both overall satisfaction and happiness with life as a whole than the Canadian students. The greatest perceived gap for American students was between what one has now and expects to have in the future while for Canadian students it was between what one has and what one needs. Both Canadian and American students reported greatest satisfaction with health and lowest satisfaction with financial security and paid employment. For the American sample, of the other satisfaction, happiness, and hope measures, a global happiness measure had the highest correlation with both overall satisfaction (r=0.62, p<0.0001) and=" happiness=" with=" life=" as=" a=" whole=">0.0001)>r=0.55, p<0.0001). reasons=" for=" the=" observed=" differences=" between=" the=" two=" samples=" are=" suggested=" and=" future=" research=" directions=" are=">0.0001).> 相似文献
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George N. Lyrakos Dimitrios Damigos Venetsanos Mavreas Kostopanagiotou Georgia Ioannis D. Κ. Dimoliatis 《Social indicators research》2010,95(1):129-142
The life orientation test-revised (LOT-R) (Scheier et al. in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 67:1063–1078, 1994) is a brief measure for assessing dispositional optimism. The aim of this study was to develop a Greek language version of
the LOT-R and to assess the instrument’s psychometric properties. The LOT-R was translated and culturally adopted in Greek
language, and the final version was administered, along with a questionnaire consisting socioeconomic characteristics and
a single item measuring optimism, to 276 Greek speaking, hospital nurses (222 female, 54 male), aged 22–65 years (mean 37.8,
SD 8.3). Results showed that the LOT-R has good internal consistency (Cronbach’s α = .71 and item total correlation coefficients from .27 to .73, a unitary structure, and stability over a 3-months period
(r = .66). Moreover, the Greek version of the scale exhibited good convergent validity with single-item optimism scale (r = .73). Principal components analysis revealed a two-factor structure representing the constructs of optimism and pessimism.
The Greek life orientation test revised appears to be a valid tool in assessing dispositional optimism in Greek speaking people
and is expected to facilitate the examination of optimism in Greek speaking populations. 相似文献
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Yiengprugsawan V. Seubsman S. Khamman S. Lim L. L.-Y. Sleigh A. C. 《Social indicators research》2010,98(2):201-215
Satisfaction with life correlates with other measures of subjective wellbeing and correlates predictably with individual characteristics
and overall health. Social indicators and subjective wellbeing measures are necessary to evaluate a society and can be used
to produce national indicators of happiness. This study therefore aims to help close the gap in wellbeing data for Thailand.
The specific aims are to: (1) calculate the Thai PWI and domain scores using a large scale sample; (2) examine the level of
life satisfaction of Thais when compared to international standards; (3) examine the Thai PWI and domains in relation to demographic,
socioeconomic, and geographic characteristics. Our report derives from the findings on the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI)
in a large national cohort of Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University adult students living all over Thailand (n = 87,134). This Thai cohort had an overall PWI of 70.0 on a scale from 0 to 100 which is consistent with Western populations.
The ‘spirituality and religion’ domain had the highest average score. ‘Standard of living’, ‘future security’ and ‘achievement
in life’ made the largest contribution to overall ‘satisfaction in life as a whole’. These domains also show a positive trend
with increasing age, being married, higher income, more education, more household assets, and rural residence. The PWI will
be an important tool for policymakers to understand the subjective wellbeing of population groups especially as Thailand is
undergoing a political and economic transition. 相似文献
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Chia-Huei Wu 《Social indicators research》2008,86(3):469-480
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the utility of importance weighting when importance ranks were considered
as the weighting values by (1) examining the range-of-affect hypothesis in the within-subject context and (2) comparing performances
of weighted and unweighted satisfaction scores in predicting overall judgment of subjective well-being. Participants were
167 undergraduates at National Taiwan University. The mean age was 19.80 years (SD = 1.98). They were first asked to complete the measurements for global life satisfaction and overall QOL and then completed
a QOL questionnaire for rating satisfaction, perceived have–want discrepancy on 12 life domains and ranking importance on
these domains. Hierarchical linear modeling with a random-coefficients regression model was applied to examine the range-of-affect
hypothesis in the within-subject context. Correlation analysis was applied to evaluate performances of weighted and unweighted
satisfaction scores in predicting overall judgment of subjective well-being. Results of this study supported the range-of-affect
hypothesis, showing that the relationship between item have–want discrepancy and item satisfaction is stronger for high importance
items than low importance items for a given individual. Correlation analysis found that the four weighted satisfaction scores
computed from the algorithms proposed by Hsieh (Social Indicators Research 61:227–240, 2003) were not superior to unweighted
satisfaction score in predicting overall QOL and global life satisfaction. All these findings suggested that weighting satisfaction
scores with importance ranks may not have theoretical basis and empirical contribution. 相似文献
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The purpose of this study was to examine the association between sustainable consumption and life satisfaction. One aspect
of sustainable consumption focused on in this study is the environment friendly purchase or green purchase. Using data collected
from consumers in 14 cities in China, we found that consumers who reported green purchase intention and behavior had higher
scores in life satisfaction compared to other consumers after controlling for gender, age, education, and family income. The
findings add evidence to the literature that suggests happiness is associated with prosocial spending (Dunn et al., Science
319:1687–1688 in 2008). 相似文献
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The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) is one of the most widely used scales for the measurement of subjective well-being
across the globe, but no satisfactory version exists for use among Malay-speaking populations. The present study reports on
the translation of a new Malay SWLS and examines its psychometric properties in a community sample of 816 Malay and 738 Chinese
participants from Malaysia. Results showed that the Malay SWLS had good internal consistency (Cronbach’s α = 0.83). Confirmatory
factor analysis showed support for a unidimensional factor structure which remained invariant across sex and ethnic group.
These results suggest that the Malay SWLS is a valid and reliable measure of life satisfaction for Malay-speaking samples,
and extends the list of available scales for measuring subjective well-being among such groups. 相似文献
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We report the initial findings of an ongoing, long-term investigation into subjective quality of life in Macau, a Special
Administrative Region of China. Data were collected via quarterly public surveys (2007 to 2009; n = 8,230), as part of the Macau Quality of Life Report. The main aims of the study were to: (a) ascertain the public’s satisfaction
with life and with the regional situation in Macau; (b) confirm the utility of the International Wellbeing Index (IWI) as
a measure of subjective life quality; and (c) contribute to ongoing discussion in the literature on quality of life in China.
The data indicated moderate levels of personal (PWI = 64.4; range 63–66.7) and national (NWI = 59.7; 57.4–63.7) wellbeing
across the study period, which implies that residents in Macau are generally satisfied with life. The lowest scores were reported
in the first quarter of 2009, a period of great economic uncertainty in Macau and the world, but were positioned within the
normative range. The IWI demonstrated good psychometric performance, consistent with previous studies in China and the West,
which confirmed its utility. These findings are discussed in relation to the IWI’s theoretical underpinnings and the literature. 相似文献
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How Social Relations and Structures can Produce Happiness and Unhappiness: An International Comparative Analysis 总被引:5,自引:2,他引:5
In this paper, subjective well being, as measured by survey questions on happiness and life satisfaction, is investigated
from a sociological-comparative point of view. The central thesis is that happiness and satisfaction must be understood as
the outcome of an interaction process between individual characteristics and aspirations on the one side, and social relations
and macrosocial structures on the other side. A distinction is made between life satisfaction and happiness; the former is
more seen as the outcome of an evaluation process including material and social aspirations and achievements, the latter as
an outcome of positive experiences, particularly close personal relationships. The focus of this paper is on micro- and macrosocial
conditions favouring or inhibiting the emergence of happiness and satisfaction. It is hypothesized that dense and good basic
social relations, occupational involvement and success, sociocultural (religious and altruistic) orientations and participation
are conducive to happiness and life satisfaction; the same should be true at the macrolevel for economic prosperity, relatively
equal social structures, a well-established welfare state and political democracy. The latter conditions, however, should
be more important for life satisfaction than for happiness. A comparative, multilevel regression analysis of happiness in
41 nations around the world is carried out (using the World Value Survey 1995–1997). Both our general assumption and most of the specific hypotheses could be confirmed. It turned very clearly that
“happiness” and “life satisfaction” are two different concepts. It could be shown that microsocial embedding and sociocultural
integration of a person are highly relevant for happiness. However, contrary to earlier studies, we find that macrosocial
factors like the economic wealth of nation, the distribution of income, the extent of the welfare state and political freedom
are also relevant, particularly for satisfaction. What counts most is the ability to cope with life, including subjective
health and financial satisfaction, close social relations, and the economic perspectives for improvement in the future, both
at the level of the individual and at that of the society. These abilities are certainly improved by favourable macrosocial
conditions and institutions, such as a more equal income distribution, political democracy and a welfare state. 相似文献
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Do We Need to Weight Satisfaction Scores with Importance Ratings in Measuring Quality of Life? 总被引:1,自引:4,他引:1
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; Comprehensive Quality of
Life Scale – Adult: Manual [Deakin, University Australia]), Raphael et al. (1996; Journal of Adolescent Health 19, pp. 366–375),
Ferrans and Powers (1985; Advances in Nursing Science 8, pp. 15–24) and Frisch (1992; Comprehensive Casebook of Cognitive
Therapy [Plenum Press, New York]) for measuring quality of life (QOL) were applied. Weighted scores computed from these weighting
algorithms were compared with unweighted scores in predicting a global life satisfaction measure by correlation and moderated
regression analyses. One hundred and thirty undergraduate students at National Taiwan University participated in the study
voluntarily. They completed a 15-item questionnaire on quality of campus life developed by the authors. They also completed
the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), a global life satisfaction measure developed by Diener et al. (1985; Journal of Personality
Assessment 49, pp. 71–75). The correlation results revealed that the weighted scores computed from different algorithms didn’t
have higher correlations to the SWLS than the unweighted scores. The moderated regression results also revealed that item
importance did not moderate the relationship between item satisfaction and the overall life satisfaction. All these findings
revealed that weighting satisfaction with importance is unnecessary.
This paper was a part of the first author’s Master Thesis 相似文献
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Shengquan Ye 《Social indicators research》2007,80(3):617-628
The study aims at validating the Temporal Satisfaction With Life Scale (TSWLS; Pavot et al., 1998, `The Temporal Satisfaction
With Life Scale', Journal of Personality Assessment 70, pp. 340–354) in a non-western context. Data from 646 Chinese university
students (330 females and 316 males) supported the three-factor structure of the TSWLS. However, the first and fifth items
in each subscale (past, present, and future) showed a series of problems. With these items excluded, the 9-item model provided
a better fit to the data than the 15-item model while the factor structure remained almost unchanged. The author recommends
that the 9-item TSWLS be used to measure temporal life satisfaction. 相似文献
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Christian Kroll 《Social indicators research》2011,104(1):157-177
This paper addresses a number of key challenges in current subjective well-being (SWB) research: A new wave of studies should
take into account that different things may make different people happy, thus going beyond a unitary ‘happiness formula’.
Furthermore, empirical results need to be connected to broader theoretical narratives. Using a re-examination of the social
context of well-being as its case study, this article therefore resorts to sociological theory and fills a gap by investigating
how social capital is correlated in different ways with the SWB of men, women, parents, and non-parents. Ordered logit and
OLS regression analyses systematically examine slope heterogeneity using UK data from the European Social Survey. It turns
out that civic engagement is not at all associated with higher life satisfaction for mothers, while the relationship is positive
for men and strongest for childless women. Moreover, informal socialising is positively and more strongly associated with
life satisfaction among women, although only when OLS is used. In sum, the social context of well-being varies considerably
by gender and parental status. Mothers do not seem to benefit from formal social capital, indicating a “motherhood penalty”
(see Correll et al., Am J Sociol 112(5):1297–1338 in 2007) regarding the psychological rewards usually associated with volunteering. Given the high levels of formal social capital
among mothers, the findings also highlight the importance of the homo sociologicus concept. Consequently, SWB research can
be successfully used to provide new insights into long-standing interdisciplinary theory debates such as the one on homo economicus
versus homo sociologicus. 相似文献