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Depression is a common problem in old age and cause of emotional hurts which decreases quality in life. A feeling of satisfaction with life is an important factor for a general sense of well being. Life satisfaction and spirituality are important to come out from depression. Spirituality has been referred to as the important dimension of the mental health care. In present study relationship of life satisfaction with spirituality in depressed elders has been searched.
Topics: Life Satisfaction, Spirituality, Depression
The nature of work in the twenty-first century has changed substantially from that of the twentieth century. Distant and online work makes today’s workforce feel more isolated and disconnected from coworkers, while constant access to work technologies such as email, text messaging, and file sharing platforms may also lead workers to feel less connected at home as well. Workplace spirituality -including work-related opportunities to develop one’s inner life, higher senses of meaning and...
Topics: Cross Generation, Workplace, Spirituality, Life Satisfaction
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This preliminary study examined the relationship between self-compassion and mental health in university going 80 adult students (30) female and (50) male. The self-report measures of self compassion and mental health were administered among the participants for data. Pearson’s product method and t-test were used to find the results. The result indicates that students’ ability to kindly accept oneself while suffering is significantly associated with mental health. ...
Topics: Self-Compassion, Life Satisfaction, Anxiety, Depression
Stressful life events affects human body, which may lead to cardiovascular diseases and effect metabolism and immune system. Recent studies showed increase in stress levels in developing countries. This study aimed to determine the stress levels in MBBS students. The objectives of the study are a To determine the current stress level, b To assess relation between stress level and lifestyle of college students. The present study was carried out in Ahmedabad City of Gujarat State. A total of 400...
Topics: Stress, Life Satisfaction, Internet Addiction, Happiness, Spirituality
The aim of the study is to find out the relationship between life satisfaction and wisdom of retired professionals. This article presents the relationship between life satisfaction and wisdom in terms of studying the mean differences in wisdom based on the life satisfaction level and also studying the type of relationship exists between these two. To conduct this study, a sample of 180 retired professionals were selected. To measure the life satisfaction, a scale was developed by Diener, E.,...
Topics: Life Satisfaction, Wisdom, Retirees, Older Adults & Senior Citizens
In the present study, the purpose was to examine the relation between the social support levels, family indomitableness levels and the life satisfaction levels perceived by parents of children with disabilities. The Descriptive-Correlational Research Model was used as the model in the study. The parents of 231 children with disabilities participated in the study. The Pearson Correlation Analysis and Multiple Linear Regression Analysis were made for the analyses of the data. According to the...
Topics: perceived social support level, family indomitableness, life satisfaction, disability
The objective of this investigation was, to study the subjective-well being among young adults, in terms of their age and gender. Samples of 60 young adults comprised an equal number of men and women belong to 21-35 years were selected for the study. To study the subjective well-being, among young adults a scale was developed by Dr. H. Sell and Dr. R. Nagpal (1992). The results of the study indicated that, 2/3rd of the young adults, i.e. both among men and women had a high level of subjective...
Topics: Subjective Well-Being, Well-Being, Life-Satisfaction & Young Adults
Introduction: The age standard for the elderly varies slightly depending on the statute or the viewpoint, but the Elderly Act and the WHO define an elderly person as someone aged 65 years and older. Aim and Objective: This study was to influence of perceived health status and falling efficacy on life satisfaction in elderly performing physical activity program. Method: The 12-week physical activity program was applied to the public health clinic in H City of Korea from January to March 2019,...
Topics: Falling efficacy, Life satisfaction, Perceived health status, Physical activity
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The present study was intended to study the main and interaction effects of type of institution, academic stream and locus of control on the life satisfaction of B.Ed. teacher educators. Life Satisfaction was treated as dependent variable and type of institution (govt. /govt. aided & self financing); academic stream (science & arts); and locus of control (internal & external) as independent variables. Descriptive survey method was employed for the present study. A sample of 300...
Topics: Academic Stream, Life Satisfaction, Locus of Control, Type of Institution
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the status of life satisfaction, quality of life and death anxiety according to personality traits (introversion and extraversion) of the old living at home and in Kermanshah city in 2016. The statistical population included all old people who are introverted or extroverted, over 60 years and living in Mehrvarzan nursing home in Kermanshah city. The participants included 300 elderly people, of whom 102 were nursing home and 198 were at their...
Topics: quality of life, life satisfaction, death anxiety, old age, introverted, extroverted
This study aimed to verify the relationship between youth sport participation, socialization agents, and life satisfaction. Aim and Scope: It is conducted on a pilot study of 181 adolescents residing in Seoul in December 2019 and the main study of 539 adolescents residing in Seoul in February 2020. Data acquired from both the pilot and main study were analyzed using frequency analysis, reliability analysis, validity analysis, descriptive statistics analysis, and path analysis. Method: These...
Topics: Adolescents, Sports Participation Motivation, Socialization Agents, Life Satisfaction, Structural...
Infertility is a widespread health problem in the United States, affecting anywhere from 10 to 15 percent and perhaps even a greater percentage of U.S. couples. Infertility can have far-reaching effects on life satisfaction, well-being, and psychological adjustment. This paper presents an analysis of sex and intimacy among infertile couples based on the qualitative analysis of intensive interviews conducted with 22 infertile couples in western New York. One-half of the people in the study...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Family Problems, Health, Life Satisfaction, Marital Satisfaction, Social Science...
People in the counseling profession make some profound assumptions about the freedom that all people have (or seem to have). From the moment that each counselor began counselor training, the notion that people are able to generally choose and make decisions for themselves has been associated with the dominant process models of the profession. As a result, it is often difficult to imagine that some people as they grow older lose their freedom to make choices about their lives. Autonomy has been...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Aging (Individuals), Cancer, Life Satisfaction, Nursing Homes, Older Adults, Personal...
A conceptual framework and rationale for the periodic interviewing of nursing home residents and their families were developed, a methodology for developing necessary surveys was devised, and ways in which survey data could be used were identified. Client satisfaction surveys were conducted in three long-term care facilities in St. Paul, Minnesota. Sixty-one percent of the nursing home residents (N=262) were interviewed. Response rates were highest for those residents living in board and care...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Evaluation Methods, Institutionalized Persons, Life Satisfaction, Long Term Care,...
The marital relationship is a basic context of retirement, where spouses' separate perceptions of retirement, and of each other's views, are an essential part of the retirement experience. To explore this issue, 297 married men who had been retired for 6 years or less, all participants in the Veterans Administration Normative Aging Study, reported their own levels of retirement satisfaction and their perceptions of their wives' satisfaction with the husbands' retirement. There was only a fair...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitude Measures, Congruence (Psychology), Life Satisfaction, Marital Satisfaction,...
All chronic illnesses represent assaults on multiple areas of functioning, not just the body. To examine the association between painful chronic illnesses and depression from a cognitive-behavioral perspective, 100 patients of the Pain Management Program at the West Haven, Connecticut Veterans Administration Hospital (78% males) completed a battery of tests. The tests assessed depression, pain severity, life interference attributed to pain, perceived self-control, and social support. An...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Depression (Psychology), Diseases, Life Satisfaction, Locus of Control, Patients,...
A major premise in this inquiry was that leisure, as well as work, family, and self, is an accepted value in contemporary life and is periodically reassessed along with other traditionally held values by the individual. Another premise is that because leisure has such meaning in one's life it becomes a social influence from which one makes life choices in accordance with leisure-centered self-concepts. Data for the study were generated from a previous study examining the relationship between...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Attitude Change, Leisure Time, Life Satisfaction, Recreational Activities,...
For members of the elderly housing industry, important questions concern how people decide to become residents of a particular senior community, how they function after they move in, and how they feel about their experience in the community. Scientists can design and conduct research to answer these questions. In an elderly housing facility, management must maintain control of the operation of the facility but residents must feel they are in control of their lives. Since these feelings of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Surveys, Consultants, Housing, Life Satisfaction, Older Adults, Personal...
The Terman longitudinal data set examined a variety of variables that shaped the personal and professional achievements of 672 gifted women. While the variables identified in this 60-year study started by Lewis Terman in 1921 are provocative, one must ask whether the predictors identified as meaningful for the Terman women would apply to a group of contemporary women. This study compared responses of 485 contemporary women with the responses of the Terman women to a host of questions covering...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Achievement, Adults, Comparative Analysis, Educational Attainment, Employment Level,...
Interviews were conducted with 30 shift workers and 30 day workers in the paper industry to discover differences in their experience of retirement. Each group of 30 workers was further divided (10 workers in each group) into those who had been retired for less than 1 year, those who had been retired for 2-4 years, and those who had been retired for 8-12 years. Life satisfaction was measured using an 18-point scale developed by Lohmann (1980). In addition to day versus shift work, a number of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Health, Industrial Personnel, Life Satisfaction, Older Adults, Quality of Life,...
While research has examined both life satisfaction and intellectual functioning of older adults, the relationship between these two dimensions has been investigated very little. A study was conducted to explore continuity in intellectual functioning over time in advanced old age, continuity in life satisfaction during the same period, the relationship between these two constructs, and how they are affected by whether the subjects are young-old, old-old, or very-old. Subjects were from the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Individual Differences, Intelligence, Life...
This program helps parents to take responsibility for their actions, set a good example for their children, and discover their true interests. The program is divided into 14 weeks and includes worksheets in which the parent writes about a variety of topics such as things they like about themselves, changes they would like to make, "fun" things they would like to do, and what, for them, is the most productive time of day. Topics for the weekly sessions are as follows: (1) establish a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Life Satisfaction, Life Style, Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Skills, Parents,...
Is the concept of "quality of life" potentially an important one for public policy analysis, or must it remain forever vague and controversial, resisting clear definition and scientific measurement? Everyday usage of the phrase is examined as well as its relation to other terms like "happiness" and "welfare." It is concluded that one reason for introducing the phrase "quality of life" into discussion of public policy is to have something to replace the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Satisfaction, Definitions, Life Satisfaction, Public Policy, Quality of...
This paper explains how commonality analysis (CA) can be conducted using a specific Statistical Analysis System (SAS) procedure and some simple computations. CA is used in educational and social science research to partition the variance of a dependent variable into its constituent predicted parts. CA determines the proportion of explained variance that is unique to a predictor variable and the proportion that is common to two or more predictors. Whereas the ordering of the predictors using...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Life Satisfaction, Mathematical Models, Nursing Homes, Older...
This document identifies patterns of characteristics of those who have leisure as an option at mid-life. A comparison was made between individuals electing to enter teaching and those electing to pursue leisure at this life stage. Results of structured interviews, statistical results, and an analysis of a life satisfaction scale is given. In comparisons of teachers with those electing leisure significant differences were observed in four categories: importance of religion, importance of sexual...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Choice, Individual Characteristics, Leisure Time, Life Satisfaction, Midlife...
The concept of wellness is defined and the importance of establishing a healthy lifestyle is discussed. A description is given of the Rochester Institute of Technology Wellness Program, which is typical of the many current programs covering varying aspects of wellness. These programs are offered by private agencies, educational institutions, and communities. A description is also provided of wellness programs in the workplace. A bibliography is included. (JD)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Programs, Health Programs, Life Satisfaction, Program Development, Quality...
A total of 128 recently separated mothers and their children were interviewed and completed a number of adjustment measures. Mothers' work situation was assessed according to two variables: time at work and job level. Number of years of education was used as a predictor of mothers' work situation. Mothers' adjustment was assessed in terms of life satisfaction, mood disturbance, and stress symptoms. Children's adjustment was assessed using two indicators: negative affect and guilt. Children's...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adjustment (to Environment), Children, Divorce, Educational Attainment, Employed...
Given that traditional societies provide women with clearly defined roles, married women in traditional communities might experience less depression than women who have conflicting role expectations. To examine this issue, 43 Lubavitch Hassidic Jewish women from two northeastern communities were interviewed concerning their satisfaction with various aspects of their lives and were administered the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression scale (Radloff, 1974). The two groups' life...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cultural Influences, Depression (Psychology), Females, Judaism, Life Satisfaction,...
The research concerning intellectual functioning in addict populations has not addressed basic questions concerning why and how intelligence quotients (IQ) might be related to drug addiction. A study was undertaken to estimate intellectual functioning based upon a demographic profile for Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) Full Scale IQ in order to determine its relationship with variables representing initiation, continuation, relapse, and cessation of daily opioid use....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Drug Addiction, Drug Rehabilitation, Family Problems, Individual Differences,...
Retrospective strategies measuring perceived life changes over time can further the advancement of life span developmental research. Researchers have neglected the individual's perception of his/her life changes over time. This study attempts to determine discriminators of change over time as operationalized by perceptions of change. Subjects (N=321) were adults, 65 years and older living in a rural area who were administered a 141-item questionnaire covering general information, work,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Aging (Individuals), Family Relationship, Life Satisfaction, Older Adults, Physical...
Possible selves are concrete images of what people think they might become, what they would like to become, and what they are afraid of becoming in the future. It was hypothesized that the satisfaction with achieving the possible self will be higher the more the person has focused on this possible self and the more emotionally involved the person has been with the possible self in the past. These hypotheses were tested in a 10-year panel study of 99 medical doctors which investigated the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Choice, Followup Studies, Higher Education, Life Satisfaction, Medical...
As early as the 1930s Freud proclaimed that a mature personality is one capable of both love and loving, and constructive work and creativity. Gedo (1997) also advocated that the major components of mental health are love and work. This study looked at two major components of mental health, love and work, in the lives of Hong Kong young people. A focus group method was used to ask questions about work lives and love lives, and the resulting information was used to generate a questionnaire. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Employment, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship, Job Satisfaction, Life...
Character strengths and life satisfaction of Slovenian in-service and preservice teachers were researched. The VIA-IS self-assessment questionnaire has been translated into the Slovenian language and has been used for the first time in Slovenia. A total of 173 primary school teachers and 77 student teachers from the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, completed the VIA-IS and the Satisfaction with Life Scale questionnaires. The highest reported strengths in both groups studied were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Life...
This study explored how societal changes have rendered contemporary midlife women different from those who have preceded them. Subjects were female college graduates who were mailed a demographic survey, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and the Salamon-Conte Life Satisfaction Scale. Subjects were divided into three artificially created groups. Group one (ages 34 to 42) consisted of 326 baby boom midlife women. Group two (ages 43 to 48) consisted of 292 pre-baby boom mid-life women. Group...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Age Differences, Baby Boomers, College Graduates, Females, Life Satisfaction,...
Counselor education had its professional debut in the 20th century. This book is a personal collection of memories, advice, and perceptions of C. Gilbert Wrenn, a pioneer in counselor training. Although the volume is intended for everyone, it is especially aimed at the scores of former Ph.D. students, colleagues, and friends accumulated over the author's 93 years. As stated in the first section, the author wanted to remind these associates of some of the ideas he's written about in the past and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Counselor Attitudes, Counselor Educators, Counselor Role, Life Satisfaction, Personal...
This thesis uses a resource theoretical approach to study and analyze social psychological phenomena in different age-cohorts. Resources are seen as any asset the person has access to in a certain situation. Access to resources are crucial to meet the demands of the surrounding environment. When the resources are sufficient to cope with the surrounding environment there will be a greater freedom of choice to manipulate or to not be unnecessarily manipulated by the environment. In older age...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Life Satisfaction,...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of calling in the military. As the military continues to increase retention goals despite budget constraints, it must adopt ways to better promote career growth and enhance life satisfaction for its personnel. This can be accomplished through recruiting, grooming, and retaining those individuals who have a calling to military service. My study answered the following research questions: (1) Is calling related to positive military career...
Topics: calling, social capital, protean career orientation, career plateau, career growth, life...
The Adult Day Care Program (ADC) in the Province of Manitoba is a health and social service program providing socialization and recreation in a supportive environment to those who, without this intervention, might deteriorate in physical or mental health function. To examine the impact of adult day care on the utilization of other health care services (including long-term institutionalization, physician visits, and hospital stays) and on quality of life (including survivorship, overall...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Day Care, Community Involvement, Gerontology, Health Services, Life...
Today work goes on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and is about acceleration and access. Workers need balance more than ever. In fact, recent college graduates value work/life balance as their key factor in selecting employers. This paper, written for career counselors, defines balance as encompassing emotional, spiritual, physical, and developmental components; taking beliefs, dreams, and experiences into account; living in the present; and taking action. Balance can be expressed in many...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Development, Counselor Role, Employment, Life Satisfaction, Quality of Life,...
Research on the quality of life in South Africa is increasing as a result of a growing concern to improve the living conditions and overall quality of life for many underprivileged South Africans. Perceptions of well-being and basic needs were investigated in a nationwide study conducted in 1982-83. Components of the variable "quality of life" were isolated, ranked and categorized to develop an instrument for measuring life satisfaction. The domains of living included in the study are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Blacks, Foreign Countries, Life Satisfaction, Quality of Life, Racial Differences,...
How can we tackle the main challenges of our time: the economy in the short-term, life satisfaction in the mid-term, and environment in the long-term? Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk and public thinker whose powerful message has influenced major economists such as Dennis Snower, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz and George Soros. He has taken his simple, yet radical message to Davos and the United Nations, and now visits the RSA to make a robust case for cultivating altruistic love and compassion...
Topics: The RSA, Great Britain, London, Youtube, RSA Events, Matthieu Ricard (Author), Buddhist, Buddhism...
In 1980 the first women graduated from the military and college training program at West Point. To investigate the progress of both male and female graduates as they assume leadership roles in the regular Army, 35 women and 113 men responded to a survey assessing career involvement and planning, commitment and adjustment, and satisfaction. Analysis of results showed that, in the area of career planning, all officers relied on self-initiated planning rather than help from a superior officer,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Planning, College Graduates, Females, Job Satisfaction, Life Satisfaction,...
Nursing home patients suffering from dementia had a desire for placement in a setting where their special needs could be addressed. This resulted in the creation of special nursing home units designed to meet patient needs. Recent reports have provided evidence that nursing home residents suffering from dementia who receive care on these special units fare better than those on heterogeneous units on a variety of measures, demonstrating decreases in psychotropic drug use, accidents, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Evaluation Methods, Individual Needs, Institutionalized Persons, Life Satisfaction,...
Despite low levels of criminal victimization, older people often express greater fear of crime than others. To examine the causes and consequences of such fear, 1,185 adults aged 60 and over, were interviewed about their personal characteristics, social resources, environment, subjective well-being, and lifestyle. Results showed that older people typically fear crime more than young people. However, 84 percent said they felt safe all or most of the time in their neighborhoods. Fear of crime was...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavior Patterns, Fear, Individual Characteristics, Life Satisfaction,...
Increasingly, young American women are engaged in multiple roles, combining job and family responsibilities. To investigate the links between role groups (employment, marriage, parenthood), and pressures, satisfactions, and physical health among young women, a subsample of 162 white women, aged 18 to 34, drawn from the 1978 Health in Detroit Study, completed interviews about health and stresses; 144 women subsequently kept health diaries for 1 week or longer. An analysis of the results showed...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Competence, Coping, Divorce, Females, Life Satisfaction, Life Style, Marriage,...
Gerontologists have shown particular interest in whether old people's morale or life satisfaction is influenced by the quality of their residential environment. The extent to which older persons' assessments of their lives are influenced by their place of residence was examined through structured interviews with a random sample of 400 persons aged 60 and older, living in a middle class urban community. Subjects completed the Life Satisfaction Index A and measures assessing personality...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Individual Differences, Life Satisfaction, Older Adults, Personality Traits, Physical...
Case studies of self-actualizing people according to the ideas of A. Maslow and the criteria of K. Dabrowski are presented. To find people meeting the criteria of Level 4 of the Dabrowski theory, a pool of 21 subjects was established by nomination. All subjects were given the Definition-Response Instrument to assess levels of emotional development. One man and three women were selected for study based on their levels of functioning. A life history was obtained from each subject. Interviews were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Case Studies, Developmental Stages, Emotional Development, Individual Development,...
An exploratory study examined the job and life satisfaction of a sample of 32 female entrepreneurs residing in the tri-state area of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. To compare the entrepreneurs' concepts of life and job satisfaction to those of women in more traditional occupations, researchers also studied a sample of 32 female nursing supervisors from three hospitals in New Jersey and Maryland. The researchers administered the work, people, and pay scales of the Job Description...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Comparative Analysis, Entrepreneurship, Females, Income, Interpersonal...
Research on residential relocation has reported mixed findings on the impact of such relocation on psychological well-being. Theorists have postulated that one's perception of an event will influence one's response to it and that response will influence the outcome. This study examined older persons' reactions to a residential relocation based on this cognitive phenomenological theory. Subjects were 75 white, upper middle class persons who were 75 years of age or older and who had recently...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adjustment (to Environment), Coping, Life Satisfaction, Locus of Control, Older...
This paper reports the results of an evaluation of a didactic-experiential program designed to improve memory functioning in healthy older adults with memory complaints, and to allay their concerns (in this case, largely unfounded) about the decline of their memory. The 7-week workshop met weekly for 2 hours, each session consisting of a lecture on one aspect of memory function and aging, and practice of a memory-enhancing strategy. The sample consisted of 13 older adults, 12 females and 1...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Aging (Individuals), Cognitive Processes, Depression (Psychology), Life Satisfaction,...
