scholarly journals Subjectively Evaluated Effects of Domestic Violence on Well-Being in Clinical Populations

ISRN Nursing ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marika Poutiainen ◽  
Juha Holma
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Early Identification ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Life Management ◽  
Subjective Evaluations ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Routine Inquiry

Effects of domestic violence are reflected in victims' physical, psychological, and sexual health as well as in victims' subjective evaluations of health or subjective well-being. The principal aim of this study was to study the extent to which the consequences of domestic violence are reflected in patients' subjectively evaluated well-being, life management, and sense of security in an emergency department, a maternity department, and a reception unit of a psychiatric hospital. A questionnaire on the effects of domestic violence was administered to 530 patients. 61 patients reported either current or previous domestic violence that affected their current well-being and life management. Domestic violence was reported to have an effect on subjective well-being and sense of security: the more recent or frequent the experience of violence was, the greater was considered its impact on well-being and sense of security. Routine inquiry can uncover hidden cases of abuse and hence would be of great benefit in the healthcare context. Early identification of abuse victims can prevent further harm caused by violence.

scholarly journals Sexual Health and Positive Subjective Well-Being in Partnered Older Men and Women

2016 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 698-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Lee ◽  
Bram Vanhoutte ◽  
James Nazroo ◽  
Neil Pendleton
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Older Men ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Older Men And Women

scholarly journals Life Management Strategies as Mediators Between Information Processing Style and Subjective Well-Being

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824402096280
Author(s):  
Maysam Shirzadifard ◽  
Ehsan Shahghasemi ◽  
Elaheh Hejazi ◽  
Shima Aminipour
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Processing Style ◽  
Processing Styles ◽  
Life Management

This study investigates the mediating role of life management strategies to see how information processing styles indirectly influence subjective well-being. Participants were 440 university students (female = 202, male = 238) ranging in age from 18 to 50 years from all levels and all majors from universities in Quchan, Iran. In a nonexperimental design and by using path analysis, we found that selection, optimization, and compensation fully mediated the relationship between information processing styles and subjective well-being. Our proposed model fitted well to the data and could account for a significant proportion of variance in satisfaction with life, positive affects, and negative affects’ scores (42%, 51%, and 35%, respectively). These results provide empirical evidence that rational information processing style is a defining factor for planning, and its impact on subjective indicators of well-being operates indirectly and through life management strategies. This model, with a more active approach, has implications for both theory and practice in psychotherapy.

Remembering the past and imagining the future: Partners’ responsiveness in specific events relates to relationship satisfaction and subjective well-being

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 538-558
Author(s):  
Xiancai Cao ◽  
Dahua Wang ◽  
Yan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Episodic Simulation ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Secure Base Support

Attachment theory indicates that romantic partners’ availability and responsiveness provide individuals with a sense of security and the repeated experience of which could have enduring effects on individuals’ subjective well-being and relationship outcomes. We proposed that retrieving episodic memory and episodic simulation related to secure-base support could also help individuals obtain information about partners’ responsiveness, which in turn would promote long-term subjective well-being and relationship satisfaction. To provide the evidence of this notion, the current study investigated the relationship between partner’s responsiveness in episodic memory/simulation of secure-base support and relationship satisfaction as well as subjective well-being. We recruited 136 young adults ( M age = 21.89, SD = 2.57) who were currently involved in a romantic relationship for at least 6 months. Participants completed measures of relationship satisfaction and subjective well-being; then, they provided specific episodic memory and simulations related to secure-base support as well as rated partners’ responsiveness in each event. Results indicated that partners’ responsiveness in both episodic memory and simulations was significantly positively related to participants’ relationship satisfaction and subjective well-being. These results provide novel implications for the function of episodic memory and episodic simulation of secure-base support in the attachment system.

scholarly journals Analyzing the Relationships between Citizens’ Emotions and their Momentary Satisfaction in Urban Public Spaces

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 7921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minou Weijs-Perrée ◽  
Gamze Dane ◽  
Pauline van den Berg
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Positive Experiences

It is recognized that the urban environment, and specifically better-experienced urban public space, contribute to people’s subjective well-being. However, research on people’s momentary subjective well-being (i.e., emotional state) in relation to the multiple aspects of urban public spaces is still limited. Therefore, the aim of this study was to analyze people’s emotional state and how this is influenced by the momentary satisfaction with urban public spaces, and also controlling for personal and experience characteristics. Data of 1056 momentary experiences of 161 citizens regarding the urban public space in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, were collected by means of an experience sampling method (ESM). These data were analyzed using a mixed multinomial logit (MMNL) model for each dimension of people’s momentary subjective well-being (i.e., sense of security, comfort, happiness, and annoyance). Results of this study showed that people were happier when they were satisfied with the atmosphere of the public space and felt more secure, comfortable, and less annoyed when they were more satisfied with traffic safety. Results could be used by policymakers and urban planners to create inclusive urban public spaces where people have more positive experiences, which eventually could lead to happier, comfortable, more secure and less annoyed citizens.

scholarly journals Exposure to Domestic and Community Violence and Subjective Well-Being in Adolescents

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (65) ◽  
pp. 299-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doralúcia Gil da Silva ◽  
Débora Dalbosco Dell'Aglio
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Community Violence ◽  
Violence Exposure ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Domestic Violence Exposure ◽  
Community Exposure ◽  
South Of Brazil ◽  
Age Range

Abstract There is major exposure to domestic and community violence during adolescence, which has been negatively related to well-being. This work aimed to identify relationships between domestic and community violence and the levels of subjective well-being perceived by adolescents, considering sex and age. The participants were 426 adolescents from public schools in the south of Brazil; 62% were girls, with a mean age of 14.91 years old ( SD = 1.65), who answered one instrument about exposure to violence and another about well-being. Results indicated greater domestic violence exposure among girls and greater community exposure among boys. The age range from 16 to 18 years old was the most exposed to domestic violence. Boys reported greater well-being and less negative affect. Differences in violence exposure may be related to roles of gender in our society. Well-being promotion is highlighted as a resource for confronting violence among adolescents.

scholarly journals Subclinical psychosis syndromes in the general population: results from a large-scale epidemiological survey among residents of the canton of Zurich, Switzerland

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Rössler ◽  
V. Ajdacic-Gross ◽  
H. Haker ◽  
S. Rodgers ◽  
M. Müller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Early Identification ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Epidemiological Survey ◽  
Symptom Clusters ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Low Education ◽  
Subclinical Psychosis

Aims.Prevalence and covariates of subclinical psychosis have gained increased interest in the context of early identification and treatment of persons at risk for psychosis.Methods.We analysed 9829 adults representative of the general population within the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. Two psychosis syndromes, derived from the SCL-90-R, were applied: ‘schizotypal signs’ and ‘schizophrenia nuclear symptoms’.Results.Only a few subjects (13.2%) reported no schizotypal signs. While 33.2% of subjects indicated mild signs, only a small proportion (3.7%) reported severe signs. A very common outcome was no ‘schizophrenia nuclear symptoms’ (70.6%). Although 13.5% of the participants reported mild symptoms, severe nuclear symptoms were very rare (0.5%). Because these two syndromes were only moderately correlated (r = 0.43), we were able to establish sufficiently distinct symptom clusters. Schizotypal signs were more closely connected to distress than was schizophrenia nuclear symptoms, even though their distribution types were similar. Both syndromes were associated with several covariates, such as alcohol and tobacco use, being unmarried, low education level, psychopathological distress and low subjective well-being.Conclusions.Subclinical psychosis symptoms are quite frequent in the general population but, for the most part, are not very pronounced. In particular, our data support the notion of a continuous Wald distribution of psychotic symptoms in the general population. Our findings have enabled us to confirm the usefulness of these syndromes as previously assessed in other independent community samples. Both can appropriately be associated with well-known risk factors of schizophrenia.

scholarly journals The social context of well–being

2004 ◽  
Vol 359 (1449) ◽  
pp. 1435-1446 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Helliwell ◽  
Robert D. Putnam
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Subjective Evaluations ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Community Ties

Large samples of data from the World Values Survey, the US Benchmark Survey and a comparable Canadian survey are used to estimate equations designed to explore the social context of subjective evaluations of well–being, of happiness, and of health. Social capital, as measured by the strength of family, neighbourhood, religious and community ties, is found to support both physical health and subjective well–being. Our new evidence confirms that social capital is strongly linked to subjective well–being through many independent channels and in several different forms. Marriage and family, ties to friends and neighbours, workplace ties, civic engagement (both individually and collectively), trustworthiness and trust: all appear independently and robustly related to happiness and life satisfaction, both directly and through their impact on health.

scholarly journals Shifting gender regimes: The complexities of domestic violence among Canada's Inuit

2007 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Mancini Billson
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Rapid Social Change ◽  
Transitional Phenomenon ◽  
Gender Regimes ◽  
Traditional Patterns ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractThis article brings the voices of Inuit women into the discourse on domestic violence as a core issue in their communities. The views of Inuit women interviewed as part of a case study of Pangnirtung, Nunavut Territory between 1988 and 2002 are accompanied by statistics on patterns of domestic violence. The Canadian Government brought the Inuit from the land to this small Baffin Island hamlet during the 1960s. The sources of domestic violence are framed within the context of female well-being and the impacts of resettlement, rapid social change, and women’s rights as human rights. Traditional patterns of domestic violence, as reported by Inuit women, are compared to contemporary rates. Inuit women across generations explore the precipitating factors and impacts of domestic violence. Insofar as domestic violence results from shifting (and unbalanced) gender regimes, in this case amplified by rapid social change, it may be a transitional phenomenon. As the Inuit develop new cultural forms, and political and economic stability emerge from the creation of Nunavut, domestic violence rates should decline. Because individual well-being contributes to general social well-being and vice versa, women and their communities are likely to experience a lower level of both objective and subjective well-being until domestic violence has been reduced.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document