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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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This paper presents an approach for time-series livability assessment using DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis), a mathematical
programming technique for measuring the relative efficiency of DMUs (Decision Making Units) with multiple inputs and multiple
outputs. Regarding each year as a separate DMU in DEA, and replacing the inputs and the outputs with negative and positive
social indicators respectively, we evaluate Japan's livability for the period 1956–1990. Results of the analysis using eight
social indicators identify 20 DEA livable years out of the 35 and find eight best-balanced years. It is concluded that DEA,
which enables non-uniform, multi-dimensional and relative evaluation, can be a valuable analytic tool in quality-of-life research
as well.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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The study of subjective quality of life and its connotations in the People’s Republic of China is at a preliminary stage.
Although there is an emerging body of literature on this topic, there are few datasets representative of the general public,
particularly in Mainland China. This paper reports the findings of a public survey (N = 449) conducted in Zhuhai City, South China using the International Wellbeing Index (IWI). There were four main aims: (1)
to judge whether residents were satisfied with their lives; (2) to compare the data with recent findings from Hong Kong and
Macau; (3) to investigate the equivalence of the IWI in terms of its psychometric properties; and (4) to determine the applicability
of the ‘Theory of Homeostasis Wellbeing’. The data indicated a moderate level of personal (PWI score = 64.4.) and national
(NWI score = 57.4) wellbeing, consistent with recent findings from Hong Kong and Macau. The PWI score was within the normative
range for non-Western countries, which indicates that the residents were, on the whole, satisfied with their lives. Although
previously reported objective measures of quality of life in Zhuhai are lower than in Hong Kong and Macau, this is not reflected
in this study’s subjective measures. This finding was interpreted in terms of the ‘Theory of Subjective Wellbeing Homeostasis’,
and the specific situation in Zhuhai, as there seems to be an absence of factors (i.e., no harsh economic or social situation)
which could drive subjective wellbeing below normal. Last, that the IWI demonstrated good psychometric performance in terms
of its reliability, validity, and sensitivity, and concurred with previous published reports, it seems that the scale’s robustness
generalises to Chinese samples. 相似文献
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Alison Woodcock Laura Camfield J. Allister McGregor Faith Martin 《Social indicators research》2009,94(1):135-171
The aim of this study was to validate an individualised measure of quality of life (WeDQoL-Goals-Thailand). Three hundred
and sixty-nine Thai people completed the WeDQoL by interview. Respondents rated (0–2) the perceived necessity for wellbeing
of 51 goals (goal necessity), then rated (0–3) their satisfaction with the same goals (goal satisfaction). Weighted goal attainment
(possible range 0–6) was computed (necessity x satisfaction). Psychometric validation used frequency distributions, Principal
Components Analysis (PCA), and Cronbach’s alpha. Analysis of variance, t-tests, Kruskal–Wallis, Mann–Whitney U, Spearman’s correlation and multiple regression explored socio-demographic, geographic and economic differences. Respondents
were aged 15–89 (mean 45.7, SD 18.0); 169 men, 200 women. For weighted goal attainment scores, PCA found a 44-item scale (α = 0.91) and three subscales (community/social/health, α = 0.90; house and home, α = 0.80; nuclear family, α = 0.81). Thai Individualised Goal Attainment (TIGA) scale and the three subscales were computed as the mean of contributing weighted goal attainment scores, after excluding
goals considered ‘not necessary’ to each individual. Unweighted and individualised scores differed significantly with socio-demographic,
geographic and economic indicators. In multiple regression, both Thai Unweighted Goal Satisfaction (TUGS) and TIGA scale scores were predicted by being married, living in the South and in a non-urban location. TIGA scores were also predicted by being over 25 years old. WeDQoL-Goals-Thailand has excellent psychometric properties. Individualised
scores reflect each person’s perspective on wellbeing and are sensitive to subgroup differences. However, unweighted satisfaction
scores give a broadly similar picture and involve less complex computation. 相似文献
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Application of the Rural Development Index to Analysis of Rural Regions in Poland and Slovakia 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The main purpose of this research was to construct a multi-dimensional (composite) index measuring the overall level of rural
development and quality of life in individual rural regions of a given EU country. In the Rural Development Index (RDI) the
rural development domains are represented by hundreds of partial socio-economic, environmental, infrastructural and administrative
indicators/variables at NUTS-4 level (e.g. 991 variables/indicators describing various aspects of rural development in Poland;
340 variables/indicators in Slovakia). The weights of economic, social and environmental domains entering the RDI index are
derived empirically from the econometrically estimated intra- and inter-regional migration function after selecting the “best”
model from various alternative model specifications (e.g. panel estimate logistic regression nested error structure model,
spatial effect models, etc.). The RDI is empirically applied to analysis of the main determinants of rural/regional development
in individual rural areas in years 2002–2005 in Poland and Slovakia at NUTS-4 level. Due to its comprehensiveness the RDI
Index is suitable both to analysis of the overall level of development of rural areas and to an evaluation of the impacts
(impact indicator) of RD and structural programmes at regional levels (NUTS 2–5). 相似文献
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There is a growing literature on the assessment of quality of life conditions in geographically and/or politically divided
regions. Sometimes these territories are countries within a specified supranational structure, such as the European Union,
for instance, and sometimes they are regions within countries. There is also some research that focuses on the municipal level
of analysis, measuring the quality of life in cities. In the end what the researcher obtains is, at best, an average of the
living conditions in the specified territory. However, if results are intended to have policy implications, attention should
be paid to the variance in living conditions within regions. In this paper we attempt to quantify the relative importance
of three different geographic levels of analysis in assessing the quality of life of the Spanish population. The geo-political
division in Spain consists firstly of regions called Comunidades Autónomas, which are then divided into provinces which in turn are divided into municipalities. We are interested in evaluating the
extent to which the quality of life conditions of an average person living in a given municipality are explained by the province
and region in which the municipality is located. To do so, we first construct a composite indicator of quality of life (QoL)
for the 643 largest municipalities of Spain using 19 variables which are weighted using Value Efficiency Analysis (VEA). VEA
is a refinement of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) that imposes some consistency on the weights of the indicators used to
construct the aggregate index. The indicators cover aspects related to consumption, social services, housing, transport, environment,
labour market, health, culture and leisure, education and security. We then make a variance decomposition of the VEA scores
to assess the importance of the three levels of geo-political administration. The results show that the municipal level is
the most important of these, accounting for 52% of the variance in QoL. Regions explain 38% while provinces only account for
a moderate 10%. Therefore, political action at the regional and municipal level would seem to have a larger impact on QoL
indicators. 相似文献
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Human wellbeing indices can shed light on a society’s quality of life. This study ranks human wellbeing by employing objective and subjective indicators of quality of life for hundred districts of Pakistan. Households level data used for the analysis includes ‘The Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey’ for the year 2006–2007. The human wellbeing is examined in four domains: education, health, living conditions and economic situation. Principal component analysis is employed for indexing human wellbeing, rated in five quintiles are generated. The paper demonstrates the importance of education, health and living condition domains in determining the human wellbeing. Objective indicators of education i.e., adult literacy rate, net primary enrolment and gender equality in education are important variables in ranking of districts. Economic status of the households and communities are important variables in subjective perception of wellbeing. The results indicate substantial variation in human wellbeing among districts of Pakistan It may be considered that disparity in objective condition and in subjective perceptions are adequately depicting wellbeing differences. Finally, it is argued that objective indicators and subjective wellbeing measures are needed in unison to understand human quality of life and to make informed policy decisions. 相似文献
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Amal Kanti Ray 《Social indicators research》2008,87(3):409-425
The economic reforms initiated in India in 1991 have brought about visible upliftment of economic conditions of the country.
This paper examines if the economic process is associated with an enhancement of India’s social development in equal measure
in the reform decade of nineties. Ray (1989) considered thirteen social indicators of India and constructed the country’s
social development index (SDI) as a certain weighted average of the selected indicators, for the years between 1950–51 and
1975–76. The present work broadly follows Ray (1989) in tracking the social development in the decade of economic reforms from 1990–91 to 1999–2000. The movement of SDI in nineties
has been compared with the movements of India’s per capita income and plan expenditure on the social sector. The results show
that though there has been growth in the social sector, it is not by far quite encouraging and perhaps more needs to be done
in the social sector.
The views expressed in the article are those of the author and not of the institution he serves. 相似文献
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The paper examines the nature of regional imbalance in Indonesia by using a number of social indicators. Several disaggregated social indices are constructed with the help of a taxonomic technique. For the purpose of comparison, an overall economic index is also constructed. It is observed that the ranking of provinces differ substantially across the indices, implying that there is no causal relationship between the selected social and economic indicators. Regional disparities declined in the past decade in terms of all social indices except the demographic index. Economic inequality nowever increased between 1970 and 1980. 相似文献
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Ming-Chang Tsai 《Social indicators research》2011,102(3):363-372
This review essay offers an institutional critique of the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Report. The notion of human capabilities and
functionings advocated by the Report demonstrates an inspirational perspective to monitor human progress in quality of life
(QoL). Several measurements the Report suggested remain inadequate. The personal diary techniques have some potential as it
possesses strength in recording hedonic activities, but it is relatively weak in revealing eudaimonic experiences. The Report
unfortunately mixes up outcome indicators of QoL at individual level and the higher-ordered, social institutions in mapping
out causal processes of human wellbeing. Future researchers can contribute by concentrating on clarifying the plausible linkage
between institutions and individual wellbeing in broad sense. There is much knowledge to be gained by researchers who ask
questions of “how we can change” rather than answer to “what we can measure” 相似文献
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Leaning on the formal faceted definition of wellbeing (Levy and Guttman (1975) Social Indicators Research, 2, 361–388), a mapping sentence is provided for defining the universe of observations of the wellbeing of the self-expanding
on personality aspects. The structure of the interrelationships among the variables of the expanded conceptualization of self’s
personality is examined by the use of the SSA technique. The sample consists of 176 adult residents (20 years of age and over)
from all parts of the city of Jerusalem, Israel. Results further verify the circular structure (radex) of personal wellbeing.
The state of wellbeing-versus- wellbeing in the sense of possession of resources partition the space into two concentric belts,
while the life domains of wellbeing play a polarizing role in partitioning the space into wedglike regions emanating from
a common origin. Self’s personality domains-versus-self’s social environment domains serve as a rationale for the circular
order. The expanded conceptualization of personal wellbeing enhance the earlier conceptualization of the 1975 study and makes
possible the development of the theory of the structure of the wellbeing of the self in a systematic cumulative fashion. 相似文献
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The aim of this study is to measure the short-term impact of involuntary migration resulting from China’s Three Gorges Dam
project on the 1.3 million persons being displaced. We focus on the social, economic, and mental and physical health impact
using three sets of indicators. Using a prospective research design, we gathered information about these indicators from a
sample of migrants first before they moved and then again after they moved. Changes in the migrants’ wellbeing during the
period, when benchmarked to corresponding changes computed for a control group of non-migrants, are attributed to the impact
of involuntary migration. Our results showed that although the displaced have enjoyed a relative gain in housing quality,
most of the changes were in the negative direction and many of such negative changes were statistically significant. 相似文献
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Jad M. Chaaban 《Social indicators research》2009,93(2):351-358
This paper develops an empirical methodology for the construction of a synthetic multi-dimensional cross-country comparison
of the performance of governments around the world in improving the livelihood of their younger population. The devised ‘Youth
Welfare Index’ is based on the nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology and allows for cross-country benchmarking
and comparison over time. The value added of the youth index is to produce country-specific rankings and trace performance
evolution with respect to indicators solely centered on youth, unlike other development indicators like the Human Development
Index (HDI) which bundles many social and development indicators.
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Jad M. ChaabanEmail: |
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The Well-Being of 12 - to 16-Year-Old Adolescents and their Parents: Results from 1999 to 2003 Spanish Samples 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Ferran Casas Cristina Figuer Mònica González Sara Malo Carles Alsinet Sandra Subarroca 《Social indicators research》2007,83(1):87-115
This study adopts satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with specific life domains as indicators to analyse the
relationships between the well-being of 12 to 16-year-old adolescents and some related constructs such as self-esteem, perceived
control and perceived social support. Well-being indicators from a 2003 Spanish sample using an 11-point scale (N = 1,634) are compared with an equivalent 1999 Spanish sample using a 5-point scale (N = 1,618). The different results obtained from the 2003 sample with a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) using a shorter and
a longer list of life domains are also discussed. A sub-sample of the adolescents’ results from the 2003 sample are compared
with their parents’ answers, using the same well-being indicators. Using a list of 8 life domains, and despite the change
of scale used, overall results show no relevant changes in adolescents’ satisfaction with life domains between 1999 and 2003
in Spain and are in agreement with normative data expected from western societies [Cummins: 1998, Social Indicators Research
43, pp. 307–334; Cummins et al.: 2001, Australian Unity Well-being Index (Australian Centre on Quality of Life, Deakin University,
Melbourne)]. Adolescents’ overall life satisfaction has been shown to correlate consistently with the other well-being related
constructs. However, it clearly decreases with age over the period studied. The results also show that increasing the list
of life domains has a major impact on the structure of the results obtained. When we compare results from parents with those
from their own child, outstanding differences in well-being appear between generations: few domain satisfaction dimensions
show significant correlation between parents and children and more than 20% of the population studied shows high discrepancies
in the answers in four domains. 相似文献
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Dirk van Dierendonck Dario Díaz Raquel Rodríguez-Carvajal Amalio Blanco Bernardo Moreno-Jiménez 《Social indicators research》2008,87(3):473-479
This article aims to provide researchers interested in using Ryff’s Scales of Psychological Wellbeing with additional information
to make an informed decision on the scales and items to use. It builds on the discussion in the literature on the six factor
structure of this measure. An alternative shortened version of this wellbeing measure (Van Dierendonck 2004). Personality and Individual Differences, 36, 629–643) was analyzed in a combined Spanish language sample from Spain and Columbia. Using confirmatory factor analysis,
one-, two-, three- and six-factor models were compared. The results showed that indeed four out the six dimensions overlapped
considerably. Nevertheless, the model that fit the data best was the six factor model with one underlying second order well-being
factor, hereby confirming Ryff’s model in a non-Anglo–Saxon culture. 相似文献
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Hideyuki Mizobuchi 《Social indicators research》2014,118(3):987-1007
The OECD Better Life initiative recently released a comprehensive set of 11 indicators of well-being covering a group of countries. Each individual indicator corresponds to a key topic that is essential to well-being. However, the problem of aggregating them is left to users of this dataset. Using these as individual indicators, we propose a composite indicator of overall well-being, which is intended to measure the performance of each country in terms of providing well-being to its people. The ‘benefit of the doubt’ approach (BOD), a well-known aggregation tool based on a weighed sum, assigns the most favourable weights for each entity under investigation. BOD may also be considered to evaluate the performance of each entity in terms of its efficiency. Regarding individual indicators as outputs, it constructs the benchmark production frontier from observed individual indicators. A composite indicator based on BOD equals the distance between each entity’s individual indicator and the production frontier, indicating its efficiency. It is widely considered that the well-being of a country’s people stems from its productive base, which is characterized by capital assets and social infrastructures. Thus, the productive base can be considered the input used to produce well-being, which is reflected by individual indicators. Therefore, when we apply BOD to aggregate individual well-being indicators across countries, we implicitly assume that all countries have the same productive base, as BOD addresses only the output and neglects the input. This inaccurate assumption leads to a distorted performance measure. Data envelopment analysis (DEA), in which BOD has its roots, is a tool to measure the efficiency of each entity by allowing for differences in inputs as well as outputs across entities. DEA also measures efficiency by using the distance to the production frontier; however, unlike BOD, DEA constructs the production frontier more accurately by utilizing the information of inputs as well as outputs, leading to a better performance measure. We apply DEA to aggregate 11 individual well-being indicators into a composite indicator using the World Bank’s estimates of each country’s productive base. The composite indicator based on BOD is distributed similarly to and is highly correlated with the existing Human Development Indicator (HDI). It is also positively correlated with GDP per capita. On the other hand, we show that the composite indicator based on DEA is negatively correlated with HDI as well as GDP per capita. 相似文献
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Lauri Peterson 《Social indicators research》2014,119(2):581-598
This paper is a critical review of composite well-being indices that account for inequality. Many well-being indices build upon the idea that while income and wealth are important, they do not constitute a person’s actual quality of life. However, first of all, the analysis finds that while well-being indices aim to go “beyond GDP” and other primarily economic indicators, many of them, unfortunately, do not focus on inequality at all. Secondly, most indices which include inequality in their measurement, only account for economic inequality. Thirdly, the article finds that the most comprehensive wellbeing index in terms of inequality is the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index which adjusts for economic, health and education inequality. This article finds that well-being indices should make further strides to ensure the capture of non-economic inequality in terms of education and health. 相似文献
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In this paper, we propose a method to measure competitiveness performance at the subnational level, with an application to Peruvian regions. For this, we propose a benefit-of-the-doubt composite index that summarizes the information of several indicators that characterize competitiveness. It is based on an optimization approach, using data enveloping analysis (DEA) techniques, so that each indicator is weighted in an endogenous way, and each unit is evaluated in the most favourable light. Our proposed index is a non-radial variant of the typical DEA scores, which avoids the traditional pitfalls of DEA-based composite indices, such as unreasonable weights. Additionally, we propose a meta-frontier approach in order to compare the competitiveness performances across different periods of evaluation. Our assessments of the Peruvian regions’ competitiveness performance improve on the results of traditional DEA methods, which award high marks to regions with very heterogeneous performance (i.e., regions with very high scores in some indicators, and very poor in others). Additionally, the comparison of the performance across time shows a general decrease in the average competitiveness between 2008 and 2014 of the Peruvian regions. 相似文献
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In Australia, wellbeing has been used as an assessment of how young people are doing by health researchers, youth researchers
and psychologists. The concept ‚wellbeing’ is increasingly applied to young people in their late teens and early twenties
with little discussion of young people’s perspectives. Using quantitative measures of subjective wellbeing as well as qualitative
interviews to allow young people to discuss the concept of wellbeing, this study explored the levels and meanings of wellbeing
among 91 young people (aged 16–24) from a rural center in south-east Australia. Key components of wellbeing for young people
were found to include relationships, psychological dimensions and personal issues while family and ‚pressure’ impacted wellbeing.
For most young people, wellbeing was multidimensional, holistic and centred around their own lives. Findings suggest that
the Deiner et al. satisfaction with life scale was an appropriate measure of young people’s wellbeing but that health, sociology
of youth and psychological approaches all contribute to young people’s perspectives of wellbeing and need to be incorporated
into a more holistic measure of SWB for young people. 相似文献