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My Home is My Burden? Homeownership, Financial Burden and Subjective Well-Being in a Unitary Rental Market
This study investigates the relationship between homeownership and subjective well-being. Using long panel data from Germany, we find supporting evidence for greater life satisfaction among owners compared to renters only when omitting housing characteristics. This effect reduces by more than half when comparing only owners with a mortgage to renters. Examining a variety of domain satisfactions, we show that owners, regardless of debt, report greater housing satisfaction. In contrast, mortgage-holding owners are significantly less satisfied with their income compared to renters. Assuming an aggregation of domain satisfacti...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - June 23, 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

The Relationship Between Democracy and Subjective Well-Being as a Function of Anti-Democratic Attitudes: a Multilevel Analysis of 78 Countries Worldwide
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Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - June 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

“I’m his Mum and it is My Job to Keep him Safe”: Mothering a Child Living with Facial Eye Disfigurement
AbstractMothering a child who lives with a disability, or a congenital facial condition can impact quality of life. This appertains to relationships, isolation, and feelings exclusion, can result in ongoing vigilance, grief, and may be addressed via faith and future hope. In this IPA study we explore the lived experience of a non-facially disfigured mother mothering her child Living with Facial Eye Disfigurement (LwFED). Semi-structured interviews were used to collect rich data which were analysed to reveal emergent and overarching themes. We found that our participant is constantly vigilant in response to her son ’s bli...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - June 21, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Impacts of Tourism Development on Residents ’ Quality of Life: Efficacy of Community Capitals in Gateway Communities, Northern Tanzania
This study examined the structural relationship involving residents ’ perception of tourism impacts embedded on material and non-material community capitals, satisfaction, quality of life and whether residents support for further tourism development. Multi method approach was employed to collect data. Focus group discussion with key informants coupled with trend d ata on wealth, tourism receipts and expenditure complemented the household survey. The hypothesized structural model was empirically tested, involving a randomly selected sample of 408 agro-pastoral residents from three gateway communities; Loliondo, lake Natro...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - June 20, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Social Relationships as Mediators of Material Deprivation, School Bullying Victimization, and Subjective Well-Being among Children Across 25 Countries: A Global and Cross-National Perspective
AbstractMaterial deprivation is often hypothesized to be directly linked with children ’s school bullying victimization and their subjective well-being. However, studies do not consistently support this hypothesis. Furthermore, the quality of children’s social relationships with family, peers, and teachers have been suggested as potential mediators of material deprivation, school bullying victimization, and subjective well-being. However, studies supporting such proposition are lacking. Using a global sample of 73,182 children aged 10 and 12 years from 25 countries/regions in the third wave of an International Survey ...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - June 13, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

“Your Health at Present”: Are Patterns of Reporting Heterogeneity in Self-rated Health Gendered?
This study explores reporting heterogeneity in self-rated health in a developing country context, and it thereby contributes to a growing literature which evaluates whether purely subjective indicators of health provide reliable measures of health status that permit inter-personal comparisons. We focus on gender and investigate if reporting patterns on self-rated health vary systematically between women and men. Most studies assess the reliability of self-rated health indicators by incorporating gender as a control variable in the analysis. We extend this research by examining whether gender intersects with a range of soci...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - June 13, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

How do Maternal Nonstandard Work Schedules Affect Early Child Development? A Mediation Analysis
This study examined how the two dimensions of maternal nonstandard work schedules, namely working nonstandard hours and working weekend, influence early child development outcomes, with a focus on the mediating role of maternal involvement in children ’s education, parenting stress, and maternal health. Structural equation modelling, using data from mothers of young children (age 5–6) in Hong Kong, found that maternal weekend work was associated with lower levels of maternal involvement in children’s education and suboptimal health status, and that these in turn were associated negatively with overall early child dev...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - June 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research