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Work-Family Conflict and Women ’s Turnover Intention: Mediating Effects of Organizational Commitment
This study, by examining the overarching COR framework and its links with other established theories, brings additi onal discoveries, particularly in the context of the Middle East, by taking OC as a mediator and FS, OS, and JS as moderators. Theoretically, the research reveals the mediating role of OC in the relationship between WFC and TI. It indicates that WIF conflicts can directly affect TI whereas FIW-type of conflicts do not affect TI directly and can be controlled by increasing OC. Practically, the study extends that if OC is affected by WFC then an increase in JS may help organisations in reducing TI. (Source: App...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - April 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

The Mediating Role of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living in The Relation Between Cognitive Function and Life Satisfaction Among Malaysian Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Do Gender and Age Matter?
This study also determined if the mediation model differed by gender and age. Data from two waves of the “Neuroprotective Model for Healthy Longevity among Malaysian Older Adults” study were extracted. The data collection was conducted in four states of Peninsula Malaysia. The first wave of data collection was completed in February 2013, while the second wave was conducted three years after the fir st wave. The participants were interviewed by trained enumerators using a structured questionnaire. The mediating role of IADL in the relationship between CF and LS was examined using PROCESS macro (model 4) for SPSS. Multig...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - April 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Organisational and Supervisor Support Links to Psychological Detachment from Work: Mediating Effect of Work-family Conflict on Dual-earner Couples
This study aims to analyse the effect of two sources of support (organisational and supervisor support) on work-family conflict (WFC) and psychological detachment from work, according to a couple-dyadic model. More specifically, we propose a model in which WFC acts as a mediator for the relationship between organisational and supervisor support, and psychological detachment. A sample of 198 dual-earner couples with at least one adolescent child (aged 13 –18 years) participated. We analysed actor, partner and gender effects using the Actor–partner interdependence mediation modeling and found that the association betwee...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - April 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Unhappy Metros: Panel Evidence
AbstractWe study the effect of urbanicity (metro v nonmetro) on life satisfaction, or Subjective WellBeing (SWB). The literature agrees that residents of metropolitan areas tend to be less satisfied with their lives than residents of smaller settlements in the developed world. But the existing evidence is cross-sectional only. This is the first study using longitudinal dataset to test the “unhappy metro” hypothesis. Using the 2009–2019 US Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we find support for the cross-sectional findings: metros are less happy than nonmetros. The effect size is practically significant, the negati...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - April 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

An Empirical Assessment of the Interactionist Model: The Relationship Between Household Income and Depression Among Retirees in Korea
AbstractThe debate over the causal direction of the social cause theory, which emphasizes the impact of the socioeconomic environment, and the social choice theory, which highlights individual characteristics, is important in that it affects overall public policy and practice intervention in conjunction with the mainstream societal welfare paradigm. This debate over whether income affects health, or health affects income, has recently surfaced in Korea. In this context, this study investigates the longitudinal relationship between retirees ’ household income and depression from an interactionist perspective. The data wer...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - April 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Measurement Invariance of the Meaning in Life Questionnaire Across 17 Countries
This study is aimed at addressing this gap, providing insight into how meaning in life is constructed and experienced across countries and into the extent to which cross-country comparisons can be made. A total of 3 867 adult participants from 17 countries, aged 30–60, balanced by gender, and with at least secondary education, completed the questionnaire as part of the Eudaimonic and Hedonic Happiness Investigation. Single sample confirmatory factor analysis, multigroup confirmatory factor analysis, and align ment optimization were applied to investigate the scale’s performance across the samples. Good psychometric pro...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - March 29, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Investigating Potential Gender-Based Differential Item Functioning for Items in the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) Physical Limitations Domain
AbstractWomen with heart failure report worse health-related quality of life on average, than men. This may result from actual differences in care or differing interpretations of and responses to survey questions. We investigated potential gender-based differential item functioning on the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) Physical Limitations domain. Using data from the HF-ACTION trial, a multicenter, randomized controlled trial of exercise training in patients with chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (661 women, 1670 men), we assessed gender-based differential item functioning using a Wald t...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - March 29, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Generate Greater Gratitude When Being Help? A Study of the Psychological Mechanism of Gratitude for Chinese Poor College Students
This study proposed a parallel mediation model and used questionnaires to investigate 260 thousand college students of China to examine the impact of the level of social support on poor college students ’ gratitude and the mediating role played by social responsibility and relative deprivation. The results showed that social support positively predicted the gratitude level of poor college students; social responsibility and relative deprivation mediated the relationship between social support and gratitude; gender, school type and difficulty level had a significant influence on gratitude level. In short, education to imp...
Source: Applied Research in Quality of Life - March 28, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research