Social Support and its Correlation with Loneliness and Subjective Well-being: A Cross-cultural Study of Older Nepalese Adults

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hom Nath Chalise
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Cultural Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Cross Cultural Study

scholarly journals Subjective Well-Being and Universal Cultural Patterns: A Cross-Cultural Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Petia Genkova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Sociodemographic Variables ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Cohort Design ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Age And Sex

<p>Until now it has not been analysed in previous research if and how cultures affect the well-being of people. It was the aim of this investigation to find conform and different patterns of subjective cultural well-being in the examined cultures of Bulgaria, France, Germany and China. Overall, 280 test persons from these countries were surveyed, namely 70 persons from each country. These samples are connected with different cultural traditions. A cohort design was used with subject to age and sex to assure comparability and to be able to meet the demands for a variance analysis. Overall, the results show that the relationships between the cultural patterns and the subjective specific well-being are not as strong as assumed, but significant. The sociodemographic variables do not influence subjective well-being.</p>

A Cross-Cultural Study in Germany, Russia, and China: Are Resilient and Social Supported Students Protected Against Depression, Anxiety, and Stress?

2017 ◽  
Vol 121 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Brailovskaia ◽  
Pia Schönfeld ◽  
Xiao Chi Zhang ◽  
Angela Bieda ◽  
Yakov Kochetkov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Cultural Study ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
Stress Symptoms ◽  
Cross Cultural Study

This study cross-culturally investigated resilience and social support as possible protective factors for mental health. The values of depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms, resilience and social support were collected from German (N = 4433), Russian (N = 3774), and Chinese students (N = 4982). The samples were split (two-thirds vs. one-third) to cross-validate the results. In all samples, resilience and social support were significantly negatively associated with depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms. While in Germany those associations were stronger for social support, in Russia and in China stronger associations were found for resilience. Furthermore, in all samples, resilience was found to mediate the association between social support and the negative mental health variables significantly. In conclusion, resilience and social support are universal interrelated protective factors for mental health independently of historical, cultural, social, and geographical conditions of a country.

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