Predictors of success and quality of life in people with borderline intelligence: The special school label, personal and social resources

This chapter focuses on several key areas of poverty and social exclusion experienced by older people and pensioners using B-SEM. Analyses by pensioner household type (n=2,296) show differences in older adults’: access to material, economic and social resources; participation in common social activities and civic and political participation; and quality of life. Younger pensioners (particularly couples) are least likely to report lower resources and exclusion from participation, and more likely to report higher quality of life. In contrast, older and single (particularly female) pensioners are most likely to report lower levels of economic and social resources and lower scores on participation and quality of life sub-domains. Although the general position of pensioners has improved over the past decade, the findings conclude that this has not been the case for all pensioners. The policy situation explaining some of these disparities and the implications for further policy action are discussed.

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Quality of life and psychological distress in cancer survivors: The role of psycho‐social resources for resilience

Psycho-Oncology ◽

10.1002/pon.4934 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 271-277 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Craig A. Harms ◽

Lynne Cohen ◽

Julie Ann Pooley ◽

Suzanne K. Chambers ◽

Daniel A. Galvão ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Psychological Distress ◽

Cancer Survivors ◽

Social Resources

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Social resources and the quality of life

American Journal of Community Psychology ◽

10.1007/bf00893368 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 275-290 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Alex J. Zautra

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Social Resources

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Discourses in Interaction: The intersection of literacy and health research internationally

Literacy and Numeracy Studies ◽

10.5130/lns.v15i2.2205 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 19-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Julie Green ◽

Joseph Lo Bianco ◽

Johanna Wyn

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Quality Of Life ◽

Health Literacy ◽

Adult Literacy ◽

Policy Research ◽

Social Resources ◽

International Policy ◽

Life Long Learning ◽

Education And Health

Literacy and health are deeply influential in social participation, utilisation of social resources and quality of life. This paper discusses interacting discourses and common conceptual points shared by the adult literacy and public health fields and situates how the sub-field at the intersection of these two domains, known as ‘health literacy’, is constructed and enacted. Emerging approaches that recognise the convergence of education and health within international policy, research and in practice are articulated. The paper argues a case for re-thinking the literacy-health connection from a cross-sectoral perspective and for more effective approaches furthering the interests of both life-long learning and wellbeing.

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Literacy & Numeracy Studies Volume 15 No 2 Editorial

Literacy and Numeracy Studies ◽

10.5130/lns.v15i2.2204 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 1-4 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alison Lee

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Social Participation ◽

Adult Literacy ◽

Social Resources ◽

Research And Practice ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

This issue of Literacy and Numeracy Studies takes up two major themes shaping the landscape of research and practice in adult literacy. The first of these is the more recent of the two: the intersections between literacy and professional and workplace practice. The second is perhaps a more sustained and enduring concern in the field with the relationship of literacy to context, place and culture. In this sense, this issue of the journal is an expression of the reach and diversity of concerns with literacy in ‘social participation, the utilisation of social resources and the quality of life’ (Green, Lo Bianco and Wyn, this volume) and carries forward critical debates for the field across the span of practice from the workplace, to the classroom to the community.

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Physiopathology of coma and the vegetative state. Scientific aspects and bioethical choices

SALUTE E SOCIETÀ ◽

10.3280/ses2011-001006en ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 85-92

Author(s):

Massimo Gandolfini

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Cerebral Cortex ◽

Vegetative State ◽

Social Resources ◽

Terminal State ◽

Worth Living ◽

Cerebral Activity ◽

Cortical Areas ◽

Total Damage

Applying the technology of neuroimaging to patients in PVS we must to review radically our knowledge of the concept of "absence of consciousness" as the result of total damage to the function of the cerebral cortex. Neuroimaging has demonstred the existence of cortical areas able to manifest definite and definible fragments of cerebral activity in a severely damaged brain, which is said to be "unconscious". Today, it is not possible to talk more of the "absence of consciousness", but rather of the "submerged consciousness". This must lead to a very prudent attitude to avoid considering PVS as an irreversible and/or terminal state, for which it is useless investing scientific and social resources. The drift towards abandonment, or whorse, euthanasia - invoked by certain ideologies founded on the "quality of life" and on "a life not worth living" is more antiscientific than it has ever been. No pathology, including PVS, is defeated or resolved by abandoning or suppressing those who are their innocent victims.

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