scholarly journals Hidden Demographics Barriers of the Economic Growth: A Psychometric Approach

2022 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-51
Author(s):  
Ntogwa N. Bundala
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Weighted Least Squares ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Gaussian Mixture ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Employment Policy ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional

This paper examined the hidden demographic barriers of economic growth. The study used a cross-sectional survey researches design. The primary data were collected by using a psychometric scale from 211 individuals who were randomly sampled from the Mwanza and Kagera regions in Tanzania. The data were linearly analysed by the weighted least squares (WLS) and Analysis weighted- automatic linear modelling (AW-ALM), and non-linearly analysed by Gaussian mixture model (GMM) and neural network analysis (NNA). The study found that the main hidden demographic barrier to economic growth is the negative subjective well-being of an individual’s current age and education level. Moreover, the GMM revealed that there is no significant data or regional clusters or classes in the study population. Furthermore, NNA evidenced the most effective predictor of economic growth is age, followed by education. The study concluded that the most hidden demographic factors that hinder economic growth are negative perceptions of an individual on his/her current age and level of education, not the age maturity, and education level. Operationally or practically, the paper implicates several socio-economical policies, mostly the national aging policy (NAP), the National Education and Training policy (NETP), the National Employment Policy (NEP), and regulations /laws on national social security funds schemes at national, regional and global levels. Therefore, the paper recommended that government and other education stakeholders increase the policy commitment on the mathematics, science, and technology subjects to be compulsory for primary and secondary schools, and the extension of the retirement age from 60 years (voluntary) to 65 years (compulsory)

scholarly journals HEART AND KIDNEY PATIENTS

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (02) ◽  
pp. 235-243
Author(s):  
Bushra Yasmeen ◽  
Muhammad Zohaib Khan ◽  
Nermeen Jamshaid ◽  
Munnaza Salman ◽  
Safdar Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Data Set

The prevalence of chronic diseases is exceptionally high (37.9%) among theadult population of Pakistan. Social support could play a significant role in shaping the copingstrategies and determining the subjective wellbeing of chronically ill patients. Objectives:This research documents the correlation patterns of social support with coping strategiesand subjective well-being among Heart and Kidney Patients. Methods: The primary data wascollected from four major hospitals in Lahore by using purposive sampling method. For thecollection of quantitative data, a hospital-based, cross-sectional survey was conducted with275 admitted patients (131-heart and 144-kidney) 184 male and 91 female (20 to 110 yearsof age) by using a structured interview schedule. Pearson Product-moment Correlation andMultiple Regression Analysis were performed on the data set. Results: Strongest correlationwas found between emotional and informational social support (r=.853). Instrumental socialsupport also indicates strong relationship with the emotional social support (r=.838). Therewas a moderate positive correlation (r=.339) between behavioral coping, emotional socialsupport and informational social support (r=.424). Data show a negative relationship betweenphysical coping and subjective well-being (r=.381). Results of the study suggest that emotional(β=.230) and informational (β=.217) social support affect the patients’ ability to actively engagein behavioral and physical coping for the subjective well-being; however, physical copingindicated negative effects (β=-.225) on the subjective feelings of well-being. Conclusions: Astrong correlations among four types of social support exists and behavioral coping has thestrongest impact on the subjective well-being (β=.629).

The Role of Helplessness in the Appraisal of Illness Uncertainty in Women With Fibromyalgia

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 346-352
Author(s):  
Melody D. Reibel ◽  
Marianne H. Hutti
Keyword(s):  
Survey Design ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Illness Uncertainty ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain disorder characterized by uncertainty in etiology, symptomatology, diagnosis, treatment, and outcome. The high level of illness uncertainty that results from fibromyalgia is a risk factor for maladjustment to illness. A cross-sectional survey design was used to examine the relationships among illness uncertainty, helplessness, and subjective well-being in 138 women with fibromyalgia. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to examine a predictive model for mediation. We found illness uncertainty is negatively associated with subjective well-being and that helplessness strongly influences the impact of illness uncertainty on subjective well-being in women with fibromyalgia.

Job Satisfaction and Subjective Well‐Being Among Midwives: Analysis of a Multinational Cross‐Sectional Survey

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darja Jarosova ◽  
Elena Gurkova ◽  
Katarina Ziakova ◽  
Daniela Nedvedova ◽  
Alvisa Palese ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional

scholarly journals Indigenous Employment Policy and Foreign-Owned Corporation Employee’s Well-Being in Liberia

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 3146-3160
Author(s):  
Taofik Olatunji Bankole ◽  
Daniel Denny Gray ◽  
Abiodun Oluwaseun Oyebode ◽  
Gbelimu Elizabeth Lawal
Keyword(s):  
Social Insurance ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Employment Policy ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Foreign Corporations

Every country institutes policy to take a course of action in favour of its citizens’ welfare. The view of indigenization policy in alignment with employment and workers treatment in Liberia takes different dimension. Liberia problem of unemployment cannot be compared to its underemployment and bad working conditions. The Liberian Indigenous policy has not reaped its fruit with marginalization, exploitation dispossession and poverty in commonplace. This study addresses the ineffectiveness of the indigenous employment policy and the state of workers’ well-being in foreign corporations in Liberia. This study adopts cross sectional method, and employs primary data. Information from 400 employees working with foreign-owned corporation was extracted from survey conducted in 2018 by the authors on the state of welfare of foreign-owned corporations’ employees in Liberia. The key explanatory variables are healthcare, social insurance, safety measures, stable job assignment, stable work hour, promotion on the job, and job security. The binary logistic regression was applied using version 22 of SPSS to examine association between the response and explanatory variables. The outcomes of this study showed that indigenous environmental policy was significant with worker’s well-being (p<0.05). The study concluded that indigenous employment policy has significant influence on the foreign-owned corporation workers’ well-being in Liberia.

The Experience of Mobile Entrapment in Daily Life

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 148-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Hall
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Network Size ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Social Network Size

Abstract. This multistudy investigation examines how entrapment, which is the guilt, anxiety, or stress to respond and be available to others via mobile devices, shapes and is shaped by patterns of mobile use. Using structural equation modeling on cross-sectional survey responses, Study 1 (N = 300) tested relationships among offline social network size, voice and text frequency, entrapment, and well-being. Offline social network size was associated with text message frequency, and both were indirectly associated with lower subjective well-being via entrapment. Study 2 used experience sampling to confirm associations among entrapment, texting, and well-being. Participants (N = 112) reported on face-to-face, phone, and text interactions five times a day for 5 consecutive days (n = 1,879). Multilevel modeling results indicated that beginning-of-week entrapment was associated with more interactions with acquaintances and strangers, and with reporting lower affective well-being and relatedness when interacting via text. Well-being reported during text interactions and number of interactions with acquaintances and strangers during the week both predicted changes in entrapment by the week’s end. Change in entrapment was associated with lower subjective well-being at the week’s end. Results suggest that entrapment is associated with using texting to maintain larger networks of social relationships, potentially stressing individuals’ capacity to maintain less close relationships via mobile communication.

De impact van de coronacrisis op het subjectief welbevinden van (internationale) studenten in Nederland

2021 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-383
Author(s):  
Christof Van Mol ◽  
Sabien Dekkers ◽  
Ellen Verbakel
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on subjective well-being of (international) higher education students in the Netherlands In this paper we investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on subjective well-being of higher education students in the Netherlands. More specifically, we compare international students and Dutch students, based on the Dutch data of the COVID-19 International Student Well-Being Study, a cross-sectional survey conducted between May-July 2020 among higher education students across the Netherlands (N = 10.491). Based on the sociological literature on the relationship between social capital and subjective well-being, we investigate in particular whether changes in social contact during the first lockdown can explain differences in subjective well-being between international and Dutch students. Our results suggest that although international students report lower levels of subjective well-being compared to Dutch students, these differences cannot be directly explained by (changes) in social contact during the lockdown.

Men with and without alcohol dependence: A comparative study of Triguna, Anasakti, Personality and Subjective Well-being

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandana Nedungottil ◽  
Jyotsna Agrawal ◽  
Mehandra Prakash Sharma ◽  
Pratima Murthy
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Dependence ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Clinical Group ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
Personality Features

Indian models of personality are seldom explored in relation with alcohol dependence. Triguna is an Indian model of personality originating from Sankhya philosophy, whereby three gunas, Sattva, Rajas and Tamas describe personality features. Anasakti has been discussed extensively in Bhagavad Gita and is an equivalent for the concept of non- attachment.The current study discusses these two Indian concepts and attempts to explore their relationship with personality and subjective well-being, among males with and without alcohol dependence.A cross-sectional survey method was adopted, with a sample of 84 males from community without alcohol dependence, screened through AUDIT and 30 males diagnosed with alcohol dependence. Informed consent was obtained from all the participants. The data was analysed using descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test and Mann-Whitney U-test.The males without alcohol dependence scored significantly higher on variables such as Sattva, extraversion and conscientiousness, positive affect and life satisfaction, than the participants in the clinical group. Participants who were diagnosed with alcohol dependence, scored significantly higher on Tamas, neuroticism and negative affect.Using an Indian model of personality helps to understand the etiology of alcohol use from the Indian context which is also helpful in the development of indigenous interventions.

Development of Male Well-Being Indicators In Malaysia from Intrapersonal Communication Perspective: Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA)

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-219
Author(s):  
Siti Zaiton Mohd Ajis ◽  
◽  
Arina Anis Azlan ◽  
Emma Mohamad ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Intrapersonal Communication ◽  
Concept Theory

Well-being is an essential concept in a human’s life as it is an emotional state that significantly influences our lifestyle. This study aims to develop a Malaysian male well-being indicator using the intrapersonal communication perspective. In this study, a self assessment instrument was constructed based on the self-concept theory in order to understand the respondent's well-being. This study applied mixed-methodology. Qualitative approach was used to build the well-being dimension and indicator based on some previous studies, while the quantitative approach was done to determine which construct is considered valid to measure male well-being, and how reliable those constructs are. Data collection phase was run through an online cross-sectional survey by using Survey Monkey platform. A total of 290 respondents consisting of Malaysian men aged 18 years and above participated in this study. The EFA results showed that there were 33 items classified under six well-being main components with having an effective and excellent level of consistency effectiveness, where Cronbach's Alpha for these six components gives a value of more than .70. This study, in overall, found that the well-being indicator was represented by one item on self-assessment that measures well-being dimension. Through the findings obtained, this study is expected to open a wider space for the upcoming studies on male well-being in Malaysia. However, it is suggested that this study needs to be continued with confirmatory factor analysis to validate this well-being indicator as a valid instrument to measure male well-being in Malaysia. Keywords: Well-being, subjective well-being, intrapersonal communication, self-concept theory, self assessment.

Presence of Meaning, Sources of Meaning, and Subjective Well-Being in Emerging Adulthood

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siu-ming To ◽  
Wai-leung Sung
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Presence Of Meaning

In this study, we aimed to examine whether and how presence of meaning and sources of meaning interact and contribute to the subjective well-being of emerging adults. Results from a cross-sectional survey of 251 Chinese community college students in Hong Kong revealed that presence of meaning was positively associated with life satisfaction and positive affect. The findings also showed that ascriptions to self-preoccupating and individualistic sources of meaning were associated with positive affect, while ascriptions to individualistic and self-transcendent sources of meaning were associated with life satisfaction. Furthermore, ascription to the individualistic source of meaning amplified the strength of a positive relationship between presence of meaning and life satisfaction. These findings can provide a knowledge base for initiating further research on how different components of meaning in life cooperate to affect emerging adults’ subjective well-being.

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