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Does Religiosity Promote Psychological Well-being in the Transition to Established Adulthood?
We examined how religiosity changes from emerging to established adulthood, and which religious transition patterns are associated with psychological well-being in the maturation to established adulthood. In addition, we tested the moderating effects of young adults ’ demographic factors (age, gender, race, and income) in the above associations. We applied latent class and latent transition analyses to 301 young adults in Waves 7 (2000; mean age = 23 years; age range = 18–29 years) and 9 (2016; mean age = 39 years; age range = 34–45 ye ars) of the Longitudinal Study of Generations. We identified t...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - August 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Happiness, Space and Place: Community Area Clustering and Spillovers of Life Satisfaction in Canada
This article analyses such effects at a much smaller geographical unit: community areas. These are small area level geographies at the intra-urban level. In particular, the article presents a spatial econometric approach to the analysis of life satisfaction data aggregated to 1,215 communities in Canada and examines spatial clustering and spatial spillovers. Communities are suitable given that they form a small geographical reference point for households. We find that communities ’ life satisfaction is spatially clustered while regression results show that it is associated to the life satisfaction of neighbouring communi...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - July 20, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Income and Oral and General Health-Related Quality of Life: The Modifying Effect of Sense of Coherence, Findings of a Cross-Sectional Study
ConclusionThe findings showed the main effects and interaction between SOC and income on OHRQoL and HRQoL. Income had different effects on OHRQoL and HRQoL depending on whether SOC was strong or weak. Findings suggested that strong SOC modified the association between low-income and OHRQoL and HRQoL. (Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life)
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - July 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Beyond Material Resources: Sleep Well and Be Hopeful for Less Worry and Better Wellbeing
Abstract The extreme scarcity of material resources related to survival needs often hurts wellbeing. This occurred during COVID-19 outbreaks when the shortage of face masks and other personal protective equipment intensified the threat. Under this context, we proposed and tested a new model of how better sleep and greater hope may predict less worries, preserving quality of life and wellbeing. Participants aged 18  years or above were recruited from the community in Hong Kong. There were 1,091 online survey responses collected near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Individuals with greater hope or better sleep qu...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - July 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Top-Down or Bottom-Up? The Reciprocal Longitudinal Relationship Between Athlete ’s Domain-General Gratitude and Sport-Specific Gratitude: A Latent Difference Score Analysis
AbstractFor athletes, gratitude has received substantial attention because it promotes their optimal functioning both in the sport domain specifically and in everyday life generally. The literature has, however, been equivocal as to whether it is domain-general gratitude —from the top-down perspective—or domain-specific gratitude—from the bottom-up perspective—that comes first and directs the other. Clarifying the relationship is important for designing more precise interventions. In this regard, we conducted a three-year, six-wave prospective study for yout h athletes to examine the dynamic relationship between do...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - July 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Beyond Material Resources: Sleep Well and Be Hopeful for Less Worry and Better Wellbeing
Abstract The extreme scarcity of material resources related to survival needs often hurts wellbeing. This occurred during COVID-19 outbreaks when the shortage of face masks and other personal protective equipment intensified the threat. Under this context, we proposed and tested a new model of how better sleep and greater hope may predict less worries, preserving quality of life and wellbeing. Participants aged 18  years or above were recruited from the community in Hong Kong. There were 1,091 online survey responses collected near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Individuals with greater hope or better sleep qu...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - July 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Top-Down or Bottom-Up? The Reciprocal Longitudinal Relationship Between Athlete ’s Domain-General Gratitude and Sport-Specific Gratitude: A Latent Difference Score Analysis
AbstractFor athletes, gratitude has received substantial attention because it promotes their optimal functioning both in the sport domain specifically and in everyday life generally. The literature has, however, been equivocal as to whether it is domain-general gratitude —from the top-down perspective—or domain-specific gratitude—from the bottom-up perspective—that comes first and directs the other. Clarifying the relationship is important for designing more precise interventions. In this regard, we conducted a three-year, six-wave prospective study for yout h athletes to examine the dynamic relationship between do...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - July 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Correction to: Generate Greater Gratitude When Being Help? A Study of the Psychological Mechanism of Gratitude for Chinese Poor College Students
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Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - June 27, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Examining the Pathways from General Trust Through Social Connectedness to Subjective Wellbeing
AbstractThe broad conceptualisation of wellbeing has allowed researchers to establish subjective wellbeing as a valid indicator of social development. However, changing social patterns, norms, and values suggest changes in how social determinants may predict subjective wellbeing. The current analysis tests a serial mediation hypothesis in which social participation and social resources mediate the effect of general trust on subjective wellbeing.Data from 8725 participants were pooled from the German part of the European Social Survey (ESS) Wave 10. Structural models were estimated to access the path from general trust to s...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - June 24, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

The Subjective and Psychological Well-Being of Children in South Africa: a Population-Based Study
This study is conceptualised to contribute to the data on children’s subjective and psychological well-being. We used a nationally representative population-based sample to provide an analysis of children’s subjective well-being (including context-free cognitive life -satisfaction, domain-based cognitive life-satisfaction, and positive and negative affect) and psychological well-being (eudaimonic perspective) across the nine provincial regions, age (10- to 12-years-old), gender (boys and girls), geographical context (urban and rural), and socio-economic status ( low, lower-middle, and middle). We used data from the Sou...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - June 23, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research