Restriction in social participation and lower life satisfaction among fractured in pain

Abstract Purpose Discriminatory laws, policies, and population attitudes, surrounding transgender people vary greatly across countries, from equal protection under the law and full acceptance to lack of legal recognition and open bias. The consequences of this substantial between-country variation on transgender people’s health and well-being is poorly understood. We therefore examined the association between structural stigma and transgender people’s life satisfaction across 28 countries. Methods Data from transgender participants (n = 6771) in the 2012 EU-LGBT-survey regarding identity concealment, day-to-day discrimination, and life satisfaction were assessed. Structural stigma was measured using publicly available data regarding each country’s discriminatory laws, policies, and population attitudes towards transgender people. Results Multilevel models showed that country-level structural stigma was associated with lower life satisfaction, an association largely explained by higher levels of identity concealment in higher-structural-stigma countries. Yet identity concealment was also associated with lower day-to-day discrimination and therefore protected against even lower life satisfaction. Conclusion The results emphasize the importance of changing discriminatory legislation and negative population attitudes to improve transgender people’s life satisfaction, and also highlight targets for intervention at interpersonal and individual levels.

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Age-Friendliness and Life Satisfaction of Young-Old and Old-Old in Hong Kong

Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research ◽

10.1155/2017/6215917 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2017 ◽

pp. 1-10 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Alma M. L. Au ◽

Stephen C. Y. Chan ◽

H. M. Yip ◽

Jackie Y. C. Kwok ◽

K. Y. Lai ◽

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Keyword(s):

Life Satisfaction ◽

Social Participation ◽

Satisfaction With Life ◽

Linear Regression Analysis ◽

Well Being ◽

Specific Aspect ◽

World Health ◽

Satisfaction With Life Scale ◽

Old Adults ◽

Young Old

Age-friendliness, promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO), aims to enable and support individuals in different aspects of life for fostering life satisfaction and personal well-being as they age. We identified specific aspect(s) of age-friendliness associated with life satisfaction and examined similarities and differences in age-friendliness and life satisfaction in young-old and old-old adults. Six hundred and eighty-two ageing adults were asked to complete a survey questionnaire consisting of the Age-friendly City Scale, Satisfaction with Life Scale, and sociodemographic variables. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to examine the effects of various domains of age-friendliness on life satisfaction among the young-old adults (aged 65 to 74, n=351) and the old-old adults (aged 75 to 97, n=331). Common domains associated with life satisfaction in both young-old and old-old groups were transportation and social participation. Community and health services were associated with life satisfaction for the young-old group only. On the other hand, civic participation and employment was significantly associated with the old-old group only. Social participation is important for the young-old and the old-old. Ageing older adults can be a resource to the society. Implications for promoting and implementing age-friendliness were discussed in the context of successful and productive ageing and the need for a more refined taxonomy of social activities.

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Expanding the Happiness Paradox: Ethnoracial Disparities in Life Satisfaction Among Older Immigrants in the United States

Journal of Aging and Health ◽

10.1177/0898264317726608 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 231-255

Author(s):

Rocío Calvo ◽

Dawn C. Carr ◽

Christina Matz-Costa

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Life Satisfaction ◽

Regression Models ◽

The United States ◽

Linear Regression Models ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Older Immigrants ◽

Happiness Paradox ◽

Retirement Study ◽

Lower Life Satisfaction

Objective: This study investigated nativity disparities in life satisfaction among ethnoracial groups of older adults in the United States and the factors associated with such disparities. Method: Cross-sectional data from 7,348 respondents aged 60 and older from the 2012/2014 waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) were used to estimate linear regression models. Results: Older immigrants experienced higher levels of life satisfaction than comparable native-born individuals. This “happiness advantage” was particularly salient for Hispanic immigrants, who reported the highest levels of life satisfaction of all groups included in the study. With increasing education, life satisfaction increased for White and “Other Race” groups, regardless of nativity. However, for both Black groups and native-born Hispanics, higher levels of education were associated with lower life satisfaction. Discussion: Findings suggest that the “happiness paradox” may not only be a matter of Hispanic ethnicity, but that it may also extend to immigrants from other ethnoracial backgrounds.

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Working Beyond the Bell

Professional School Counseling ◽

10.1177/2156759x18775137 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 2156759X1877513

Author(s):

Amanda Winburn ◽

Rebekah Reysen ◽

Eric Suddeath ◽

Mandy Perryman

Keyword(s):

Life Satisfaction ◽

School Counselors ◽

Big Five ◽

Counselor Training ◽

School Counselor ◽

Big Five Personality Traits ◽

School Level ◽

Big Five Personality ◽

School Settings ◽

Lower Life Satisfaction

The purpose of this study is to explore workaholism tendencies and their relationship to the Big Five personality traits and life satisfaction within a school counselor population. Results indicate that school counselors employed in high school settings experience significantly higher levels of workaholism tendencies than those at the elementary or middle school level, and school counselors with neurotic tendencies are most likely to be workaholics. Data also showed that school counselors with higher levels of workaholism have lower life satisfaction. We discuss implications for school counselor training and practice.

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Life Satisfaction Development in the Transition to Adulthood: Differences by Gender and Immigrant Background

Journal of Youth and Adolescence ◽

10.1007/s10964-021-01560-7 ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

Juul H. D. Henkens ◽

Matthijs Kalmijn ◽

Helga A. G. de Valk

Keyword(s):

Life Satisfaction ◽

Transition To Adulthood ◽

Random Effect ◽

Children Of Immigrants ◽

Longitudinal Survey ◽

Healthy Development ◽

Immigrant Background ◽

Multi Level ◽

Random Effect Models ◽

Lower Life Satisfaction

AbstractLife satisfaction is crucial for healthy development into adulthood. However, it is yet largely unknown how life satisfaction develops in the transition to adulthood. This study examined life satisfaction development in this transition and paid special attention to differences between boys, girls, children of immigrants, and nonimmigrants. Unique longitudinal data of seven waves (2010–2018) of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey Germany were used. Respondents (N = 3757, 54% girls, 78% nonimmigrants, Mage weighted = 14.6, SD = 0.6 at wave 1) were followed between ages 14 and 23 and multi-level random effect models were applied. Life satisfaction developed in a nonlinear way in the transition to adulthood (M-shape), with overall decreases between age 17 and 18 and between age 20 and 23. Girls reported lower life satisfaction levels in adolescence and more unstable trajectories than boys, where girls with immigrant backgrounds represented the least advantageous life satisfaction trajectory. Differences in life satisfaction between groups decreased from age 19 onwards.

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Abstract 19600: Patients With Cardiovascular Risk Factors Were More Likely to Have Lower Life Satisfaction

Circulation ◽

10.1161/circ.132.suppl_3.19600 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 132 (suppl_3) ◽

Author(s):

Michèle Baumann ◽

Anastase Tchicaya

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Life Satisfaction ◽

Coronary Angiography ◽

Peer Pressure ◽

Middle Income ◽

Health Promotion Programs ◽

Multiple Regression Models ◽

Diabetes And Obesity ◽

Lower Life Satisfaction ◽

Do So

Introduction: Five years after coronary angiography, life satisfaction (LS) among patients may be related to incidents of cardiovascular diseases, risk factors and unhealthy behaviours and socioeconomic conditions but their respective influence remains unclear. Our aim is to analyze LS and its relationships with those factors. Methods: Among the 4,391 patients initially contacted, 547 deaths were reported and 209 had an invalid address. 3,635 patients who underwent coronary angiography in 2008-2009 at the National Institute of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiological Intervention (INCCI) in Luxembourg completed a self-questionnaire assessing LS [1-10] and other covariates. Data were analysed via multiple regression models adjusted initially on age, sex and income, and for a second time with the addition of all CVRF. Results: LS of 1,289 volunteers (69.2 years) was 7.3/10. Most were men, Luxembourgish, employees and manual workers, had secondary education and an income of 36,000 euros or more per year. LS was lowest in female patients, those with a low to middle income. Patients who live in couple had the best LS. Patients with a history in the previous 5 years of physical inactivity (regression coefficient: - 0.903), angina pectoris (rc -0.843), obesity (rc -0.512), diabetes, or hypercholesterolemia, were more likely to have lower LS. The previous associations were mostly maintained on the second analysis, with the exceptions of diabetes and obesity. In addition, patients who stopped smoking because of peer pressure (rc -0.011) had a lower LS. Conclusions: Profiles of patients are linked with least LS: ‘inclined abstainers’ who intended to modify their behaviours, but could not do it, and ‘disinclined abstainers’ who had no intention of changing and were insufficiently concerned to do so. Patients who stopped smoking and perceived it as unpleasant also had the lowest LS. ‘Declined actors’ were those patients who had to adjust their lifestyles, but were ambivalent about their intentions and the behaviour, which they continued. Health promotion programs would benefit from targeting factors that moderate the unfavourable intention-behaviour relationship and can help enhance LS.

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