Subjective well-being among Latino day laborers: Examining the role of religiosity, social networks, and cigarette use

Latino migrant day laborers are a transnational population that often travels back and forth between borders in search of economic opportunities. These Latino day laborers (LDLs) are often at risk for exploitation and worker's rights abuses. Despite LDLs' heightened social vulnerability and risks, this population often does not access formal social or public health services due to their undocumented legal status, lack of health insurance and distrust of governmental social services. In light of LDLs' lack of access to formal services, social networks may enhance and protect their well-being and health through the exchange of emotional and social support, as well as the provision of concrete and practical services. Utilizing Berkman, Glass, Brissette, and Seeman's (2000) conceptual framework on social networks and health, this ethnographic study investigates the role of social networks in facilitating the well-being of LDLs (N=150). Implications for social services for this transnational population are also discussed.

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Social Capital as a Resource of Subjective Well-Being: Mediating Role of Health Status

Forman Journal of Economic Studies ◽

10.32368/fjes.20201608 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 ◽

Author(s):

Muhammad Danish ◽

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Hafeez Khan

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Social Networks ◽

Life Satisfaction ◽

Health Status ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Social Trust ◽

Well Being ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Reported Health

Increase in social capital increases the social support in society, thus improves the health and well-being of an individual. This paper aims to analyze the role of social capital on subjective well-being (happiness, life satisfaction, and worth of life) and self-reported health status. The study deploys the Generalized Structural Equation Model with order logit to link social capital with health and subjective well-being (SWB) of people by utilizing the data of 1566 households and individuals in Punjab, Pakistan. Results of the study illustrate that social trust and the number of friends are strong predictors of self-reported health (SRH) status and subjective well-being of people. While memberships with organizations or alike is a weak predictor of SRH, it significantly affects the happiness of people. Our results also depict that SRH is the strong mediator between social capital and SWB; improved social networks lower the risk of poor health status, which improves the level of happiness and life satisfaction. The study suggests that a balanced distribution of different kinds of social networks is important for the self-reported health and subjective wellbeing of people in Pakistan.

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Supplemental Material for Trajectories of Multiple Subjective Well-Being Facets Across Old Age: The Role of Health and Personality

Psychology and Aging ◽

10.1037/pag0000459.supp ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Old Age ◽

Well Being ◽

Subjective Well Being

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Supplemental Material for Stability and Change in Subjective Well-Being: The Role of Performance-Based and Self-Rated Cognition

Psychology and Aging ◽

10.1037/pag0000153.supp ◽

2017 ◽

Keyword(s):

Well Being ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Stability And Change

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Work Life Balance and Job Satisfaction - A Structural Equation Modeling

GIS Business ◽

10.26643/gis.v14i6.11692 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (6) ◽

pp. 156-162

Author(s):

Dr. D. Shoba ◽

Dr. G. Suganthi

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Well Being ◽

Work Life ◽

Work Life Balance ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Life Balance ◽

Study Results

Work-Life balance has its importance from ancient days and the concept is very old, from the day the world has been created. There was a drastic change that has occurred in the market of teachers and their personal profiles. There are tremendous changes in various families which have bartered from the ‘breadwinner’ role of traditional men to single parent families and dual earning couples. This study furnishes an insight into work life balance and job satisfaction of teachers working in School of Villupuram District. The sample comprises of 75 school teachers from Government and private schools in Villupuram District. The Study results that there is increasing mediating evidence in Work-life balance as well as Job satisfaction of teachers are not affected by the type of school in which they are working. Job satisfaction or Pleasure of life will be affected as a whole by Work life balance of an individual which is the main which can be calculated by construct of subjective well being.

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The Influence of Competency of Preschool Teachers in Fujian Province on Subjective Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Psychological Capital

10.31124/advance.9439634 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Xuguang Sun ◽

Ailing Huang

Keyword(s):

Direct Effect ◽

Psychological Capital ◽

Preschool Teachers ◽

Well Being ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Positive Psychological Capital ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Mediator Variable

The intermediary effect interval of the preschool teachers' competence characteristics → positive psychological capital → the subjective well-being of the preschool teachers is (0.23—0.55), does not contain 0, and the effect amount is 0.35. The competency characteristics of preschool teachers → The direct effect interval of subjective well-being of preschool teachers is (0.05—0.36), excluding 0, and the effect quantity is 0.20, indicating that positive psychological capital as a mediator variable has the characteristics of preschool teachers and the subjective well-being of preschool teachers. Partial mediating effect, the ratio of mediating effect to total effect is 64.01%.

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