Pub Date : 2024-06-27DOI: 10.1007/s11482-024-10334-9
Tomasz Kwarciński, Paweł Ulman, Julia Wdowin
The main aim of this paper is to conceptualise and empirically estimate subjective well-being capability. The empirical demonstration of the conceptual framework is applied in a selection of European countries: Poland and its leading emigration destinations the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, France and Italy. The paper advances the measure of subjective well-being capability (SWC) as the integration of the subjective well-being measure with the capability approach in a unified measurement framework. Following the development of a conceptual model, the theoretical framework is operationalized empirically to quantify measures of SWC across the selected countries using a Multiple Indicators and Multiple Causes Model. Data from the European Quality of Life Survey is employed. A comparative analysis compares the SWC measures across countries as well as comparing SWC with conventional well-being measures such as overall happiness and GDP per capita. The results of the study reveal a significant correlation between the SWC based on a general model for all countries, overall happiness, and GDP per capita. However, it also suggests that country-specific SWCs, calculated from tailored models, could substantially deviate from traditional well-being measurements. This attribute suggests that SWC could be a practical tool for assessing individual contexts, as reflected in the tailored models, even though it might not serve as the optimal instrument for country ranking (via the general MIMIC model).
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Pub Date : 2024-06-26DOI: 10.1007/s11482-024-10343-8
Woosang Hwang, Narges Hadi, Wencheng Zhang, Maria T. Brown, Merril Silverstein
Although intergenerational solidarity with adult children has been considered to have a positive impact on older parents’ well-being, less is known about the association between intergenerational solidarity and longevity. Based on this background, this study identified multidimensional constructs of intergenerational solidarity with adult children and employed them as a predictor of older parents’ mortality outcomes in the United States. We used data from the 1988 wave of the Longitudinal Study of Generations, focusing on middle-aged parents when they averaged 60 years of age. We conducted a latent class analysis to identify typologies of intergenerational solidarity with adult children and included these results in a Cox proportional hazard model predicting age-related mortality risk between 1988 and 2020 using data from the National Death Index. We found that the best-fitting model revealed five intergenerational solidarity classes: tight-knit, intimate-but-distant, social, detached, and obligatory. Parents in the intimate-but-distant, social, and obligatory latent classes had a lower risk of subsequent death compared to the detached latent class. However, contrary to our expectations, parents’ risk of subsequent death was not significantly different between tight-knit and detached latent classes. Our findings suggest that weak ties bordering on estrangement could raise the mortality risk of parents. However, full integration, which includes support exchange, may provide little benefit to parents’ survival due to having a restricted family network.
虽然与成年子女的代际团结被认为会对老年父母的福祉产生积极影响,但人们对代际团结与长寿之间的关系却知之甚少。基于这一背景,本研究确定了与成年子女代际团结的多维结构,并将其用作美国老年父母死亡率的预测指标。我们使用了 1988 年 "代际纵向研究"(Longitudinal Study of Generations)的数据,重点关注平均年龄为 60 岁的中年父母。我们进行了潜类分析,以确定与成年子女代际团结的类型,并将这些结果纳入一个考克斯比例危险模型,利用全国死亡指数数据预测 1988 年至 2020 年间与年龄相关的死亡风险。我们发现,最佳拟合模型揭示了五个代际团结类别:紧密型、亲密但疏远型、社交型、疏离型和义务型。与疏离型潜在类别相比,亲密但疏离型、社交型和义务型潜在类别中的父母随后死亡的风险较低。然而,与我们的预期相反,亲密型和疏离型潜意识阶层的父母随后死亡的风险并无显著差异。我们的研究结果表明,接近疏远的弱联系可能会提高父母的死亡风险。然而,完全融合(包括支持交换)可能不会给父母的生存带来什么好处,因为他们的家庭网络受到了限制。
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Pub Date : 2024-06-26DOI: 10.1007/s11482-024-10342-9
María Dolores Martín-Díaz, Enrique G. Fernández-Abascal
The main objective of this study is to examine the psychometric properties of the PERMA-Profiler in a Spanish context. The PERMA-Profiler, developed by Butler & Kern (Int J Wellbeing 6(3):1-48, 2016) to measure Seligman’s (Flourish: A visionary new understanding of happiness and well-being, 2011) PERMA model of flourishing, consists of five domains that assess well-being: Positive Emotion (P), Engagement (E), Relationships (R), Meaning (M), and Accomplishment (A). We translated and adapted the PERMA-Profiler, analyzed the instrument’s reliability, its validity based on an internal structure through three confirmatory factor analyses, gender and age invariance, and its convergent and discriminant validity. A total of 2525 participants completed all measures. The results of the analyses to confirm the internal consistency are very acceptable in all the domains and in Overall Well-being (PERMA), except for the Engagement domain. The results of three confirmatory factor analyses show that the model of five independent interrelated factors (domains) presents the best fit. The analysis shows the invariance across gender and age groups. The analyses of the convergent validity show that are positively and significantly related to satisfaction with life (SWLS), to the six evaluated dimensions of psychological well-being (PWB), to positive affect (PANAS) and dispositional optimism (LOT-R) and the general physical and mental health status (SF-36). The discriminant validity analyses show that are related negatively and significantly to negative affect (PANAS), the total score of depression (BDI-II) and the Cognitive-Affective and Somatic-Motivational factors. The findings of this study indicate that the PERMA-Profiler is transferable to the Spanish context, and the Spanish version is a reliable and valid measure of well-being.
本研究的主要目的是考察 PERMA-Profiler 在西班牙背景下的心理测量特性。PERMA-Profiler 由 Butler & Kern(Int J Wellbeing 6(3):1-48,2016)开发,用于测量 Seligman(Flourish: A visionary new understanding of happiness and well-being, 2011)的 PERMA 蓬勃发展模型,由五个评估幸福感的领域组成:积极情绪(P)、参与(E)、关系(R)、意义(M)和成就(A)。我们翻译并改编了 PERMA-Profiler,分析了该工具的可靠性、通过三次确认性因素分析得出的内部结构的有效性、性别和年龄不变性,以及其收敛性和区分性有效性。共有 2525 名参与者完成了所有测量。除 "参与 "领域外,所有领域和 "总体幸福感"(PERMA)领域的内部一致性分析结果均可接受。三项确认性因素分析的结果表明,五个相互关联的独立因素(领域)模型的拟合度最高。分析结果表明,该模型在不同性别和年龄组之间具有不变性。聚合效度分析表明,该模型与生活满意度(SWLS)、心理健康的六个评估维度(PWB)、积极情绪(PANAS)和性格乐观(LOT-R)以及一般身心健康状况(SF-36)呈显著正相关。判别效度分析表明,该问卷与消极情绪(PANAS)、抑郁总分(BDI-II)以及认知-情感和躯体-动机因素呈显著负相关。这项研究的结果表明,PERMA-Profiler 可以在西班牙的环境中使用,而且西班牙文版本是一种可靠有效的幸福感测量方法。
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Pub Date : 2024-06-26DOI: 10.1007/s11482-024-10335-8
Angelina Wilson Fadiji, Tim Lomas
Antecedents of wellbeing across different socio-cultural contexts is a question that psychologists and other social scientist continue to grapple with. Although evidence supporting higher educational levels as being beneficial for wellbeing is significant, there are still contradictory findings, necessitating further exploration into this relationship. Moreover, current evidence seems to focus mostly on data derived from Western samples and have adopted limited measures of wellbeing. The present study explores the relationship between schooling and a subset of 31 wellbeing-related categories in the Gallup World Poll conducted over three years (2020–2022), encompassing 386,654 individuals in 142 countries. The findings indicate that overall participants with higher levels of education fare better than those with lower levels of education. However, disaggregation and comparison across key social indicators, specifically, country/region of residence, sex and age showed that there were instances where higher levels of education were less beneficial for wellbeing. While acknowledging the importance of education for wellbeing, our findings suggest the need to consider how unique socio-cultural factors might further complicate the benefits of education. We also suggest that governments might need to consider what policies are necessary to make the benefits of education more apparent and ubiquitous.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-19DOI: 10.1007/s11482-024-10336-7
Ahhyun Cho, Harris Hyun-soo Kim
A large volume of research highlights the adverse effects of relative deprivation on subjective well-being. Across different empirical settings and modelling approaches, a conceptual common denominator exists: the bulk of prior studies assumes that lower social status, by definition, implies higher relative deprivation, resulting in reduced well-being. In the present study, we take issue with this assumption and propose that lower self-ascribed positions on the status hierarchy are necessary but insufficient in and of themselves to undermine well-being. The critical, yet often neglected, factor in the literature is perceived societal unfairness. That is, one must believe that personal predicament as gauged by status disadvantage is, at least partly, due to some exogenous or impersonal forces (e.g., discrimination, limited opportunity). Our central argument is that the magnitude of the focal relationship between relative deprivation and well-being should be more pronounced among those who hold higher perceptions of unfairness. Using three independently collected probability datasets on the South Korean population—Social Science Korea (2017), Seoul Survey (2018), and Korean Social Integration Survey (2018)—we systematically test this hypothesis. Results from multilevel models robustly demonstrate that the connection between lower social status and lower well-being is significantly stronger among individuals who assess their society to be more ‘unfair,’ suggesting that future research should incorporate the level of perceived unfairness as a consequential moderator.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-19DOI: 10.1007/s11482-024-10332-x
Rosanna Cataldo, Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo, Maria Gabriella Grassia, Filomena Maggino
The work investigates the evolution of subjective well-being research based on bibliometric analysis and text mining techniques. It provides a comprehensive overview of the publications from 1966 to 2022 inclusive. 12,376 publications were downloaded from the Scopus database. The paper affords information regarding the evolution of the field in terms of identifying key publications and authors as well as how certain topics have evolved over time. Using topic modeling and text analysis techniques, the main research topics are identified. The analysis, which highlights a rapid growth in publications observed since 2000, demonstrates how the concept of well-being from a subjective point of view is widely studied by researchers in various fields. Moreover, if before this concept was mainly analyzed in the psychological field, nowadays there are journals that devote more space to these issues in terms of individual happiness and social issues.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-18DOI: 10.1007/s11482-024-10338-5
Berta Schnettler, Andrés Concha-Salgado, Ligia Orellana, Mahia Saracostti, Katherine Beroíza, Héctor Poblete, Germán Lobos, Cristian Adasme-Berríos, María Lapo, Leonor Riquelme-Segura, José A. Sepúlveda, Karol Reutter
Organizational and family support may be invested to reduce workers’ family-to-work conflict and increase their and their family members’ family satisfaction. However, data on the extent to which workplace and family support, family-to-work conflict, and family satisfaction were linked during the COVID-19 pandemic for workers and their families is still limited. This study explored the actor and partner effects between perceived workplace support for families and perceived family support, family-to-work conflict, and family satisfaction, in different-sex dual-earner parents with adolescents and the mediating role of parents’ family-to-work conflict. In the Metropolitan Region of Chile, 430 dual-earner parents and their adolescent child (mean age of 12.8 years, 53.7% female) were recruited for the study. Mothers and fathers responded to measures of family-to-work conflict and perceived workplace support for families and the Perceived Family Support Scale. The three family members answered the Satisfaction with Family Life Scale. Analyses were conducted using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model and structural equation modeling. Results showed that mothers’ and fathers’ perceived workplace support for families and perceived family support helped reduce their family-to-work conflict; no other association involving parents’ perceived workplace support for families was significant. By contrast, direct actor and partner effects were found between parents’ perceived family support and the three family members’ family satisfaction. Family-to-work conflict showed two significant mediating roles: One intraindividual in fathers and one intraindividual from fathers to adolescents. These findings indicate that resources both parents gain from perceived family support positively affect the three family members’ family satisfaction by different mechanisms and underscore the importance of family support for family satisfaction during the pandemic.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-17DOI: 10.1007/s11482-024-10330-z
Richard Andrew Burns, Kerry Sargent, Dimity Ann Crisp
This cross-national study investigated the mental health and wellbeing literacy of adults through a series of discrimination tasks which assessed their ability to correctly discriminate statements of mental health and wellbeing. A cross-national sample of 1044 adults aged 18 years and older were recruited through Qualtrics Panels. Participants resided in Australia, the United Kingdom, Singapore, South Africa and Malaysia. Quota sampling was undertaken within countries for sex and age-groups (18 to 39 years, 40 to 59 years, and 60 + years). Participants were assigned into one of two conditions in which mental health and wellbeing statements were either negatively or positively framed. In the first task, participants reported moderate levels of mental health and wellbeing literacy and there was consistency between nations in participants’ discrimination of statements. In the second discrimination task, participants now classified most statements indicators as reflecting “both mental health and wellbeing”. The findings suggest that while community members can mostly discriminate between statements of wellbeing and mental health, they will generally define these statements as reflecting dimensions of both mental health and wellbeing. For community members, it may be less important to discriminate between mental health and wellbeing but instead simply focus on overall psychological health which reflects both absence of pathology and presence of wellbeing.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-15DOI: 10.1007/s11482-024-10337-6
Stefanie Hahm, L. Altweck, S. Schmidt, Christine Ulke, Toni Fleischer, T. McLaren, S. Speerforck, Georg Schomerus, M. Beutel, Elmar Brähler, H. Muehlan
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Pub Date : 2024-06-14DOI: 10.1007/s11482-024-10316-x
Julia Malinka, Kristin Mitte, Matthias Ziegler
The study contributes to research on Universal Basic Income (UBI) by examining mental health trajectories in working individuals who received a monthly UBI payment of €1,000 for the duration of one year. We assessed data from 357 recipients of additional income provided by a crowdfunding association in Germany. Participants reported their life satisfaction, well-being, work motivation, and needs satisfaction at up to three semi-annual measurement occasions, the first of which was scheduled at the onset of UBI payments. Specifically, we focused on the effects of autonomous work motivation as (a) a predictor of change in life satisfaction and well-being and (b) a mediator between needs satisfaction at work and mental health. We conducted Latent Growth Curve Models (LGCM) and Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Models (RI-CLPM). Results of the LGCM indicated growth in life satisfaction and well-being during UBI payment. Autonomous motivation was a robust, positive predictor of initial levels of life satisfaction and well-being, both as time-invariant covariate (TIC) and time-varying covariate (TVC). Moreover, low initial autonomous motivation was associated with greater increase of life satisfaction and well-being. Using a RI-CLPM, we found strong support for the mediating effect of autonomous motivation. Furthermore, gender and income were significant predictors of initial life satisfaction and well-being in most of our models. Women and low-income earners tended to report lower levels of life satisfaction and well-being. The results are discussed focusing on the role of autonomous motivation for psychological health in the context of UBI and occupational health promotion more generally.
本研究通过考察每月领取 1,000 欧元全民基本收入(UBI)的工作人士在一年时间内的心理健康轨迹,为全民基本收入(UBI)研究做出了贡献。我们评估了来自德国一家众筹协会的 357 名额外收入领取者的数据。参与者在最多三个半年一次的测量场合报告了他们的生活满意度、幸福感、工作动力和需求满意度,其中第一个测量场合安排在 UBI 开始支付之时。具体来说,我们重点研究了自主工作动机作为(a)生活满意度和幸福感变化的预测因子和(b)工作需求满意度与心理健康之间的中介因子所产生的影响。我们采用了潜增长曲线模型(LGCM)和随机截距交叉滞后面板模型(RI-CLPM)。LGCM 的结果表明,在支付 UBI 期间,生活满意度和幸福感都有所增长。无论是作为时变协变量(TIC)还是时变协变量(TVC),自主动机都是生活满意度和幸福感初始水平的一个稳健、积极的预测因子。此外,初始自主动机低与生活满意度和幸福感的提高幅度较大相关。利用 RI-CLPM 方法,我们发现自主动机的中介效应得到了强有力的支持。此外,在我们的大多数模型中,性别和收入都是初始生活满意度和幸福感的重要预测因素。女性和低收入者的生活满意度和幸福感往往较低。我们将重点讨论自主动机在人工智能和职业健康促进背景下对心理健康的作用。
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