What are the determinants of subjective well-being of healthy adults in rural communities in and around forests?

Sustainability goals are seeking to jointly improve environmental conditions and the well-being of society. Yet achieving both environmental and human well-being goals remains challenging because improving the material well-being of people can often mean increasing the risk of environmental and ecosystem degradation. An alternative method that may help meet both goals is to target non-monetary determinants of subjective well-being. However. few studies have examined the determinants of subjective well-being in industrializing countries. Here, we report on an analysis examining the determinants of subjective well-being among health, working adults in rural villages in and around forests in the Berau Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. We find there is no significant relationship between subjective well-being and measures of monetary well-being, such as income and assets. Instead, we find age, sex, self-assessed health status, and occupation are significantly associated with subjective well-being. Our results have implications for policies seeking to improve subjective well-being among these populations.

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Race, Socioeconomic Status, and the Subjective Well-Being of Older Americans

The International Journal of Aging and Human Development ◽

10.2190/k35g-mawe-mnbr-ah48 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 43-61 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Brad McKenzie ◽

James Campbell

Keyword(s):

Life Satisfaction ◽

Health Status ◽

Policy Development ◽

Well Being ◽

Two Dimensions ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Older Americans ◽

Using Data ◽

Self Assessed Health ◽

Intervening Variables

Causal examination of factors influencing life satisfaction among older Americans can provide knowledge important to social policy development. Using rotated factor analysis, this study isolates two dimensions of life satisfaction, labeled happiness and morale, using data from the 1981 Harris survey on aging. Race, SES characteristics, and the two intervening variables of self-assessed health status and problems experienced are tested through path analysis on the two attributes of life satisfaction. Most of the effects of race and SES are mediated by self-assessed health status and problems experienced, and these two intervening variables are the strongest direct predictors of happiness and morale. Of particular significance are results which demonstrate that racial background has a strong influence on problems experienced, and that education is more influential than income on the life satisfaction factors tested in this study.

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Effect of Ambient Air Quality on Subjective Well-Being among Chinese Working Adults

Journal of Cleaner Production ◽

10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126509 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 126509

Author(s):

Wei Guo ◽

Lijuan Chen ◽

Youqing Fan ◽

Miaomiao Liu ◽

Fei Jiang

Keyword(s):

Air Quality ◽

Ambient Air ◽

Well Being ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Ambient Air Quality ◽

Working Adults

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Subjective Well-Being and Its Association with Subjective Health Status, Age, Sex, Region, and Socio-economic Characteristics in a Chinese Population Study

Journal of Happiness Studies ◽

10.1007/s10902-014-9611-7 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 833-873 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

Sun Sun ◽

Jiaying Chen ◽

Magnus Johannesson ◽

Paul Kind ◽

Kristina Burström

Keyword(s):

Health Status ◽

Population Study ◽

Chinese Population ◽

Well Being ◽

Subjective Health ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Subjective Health Status

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Using ICT to Resolve the Modernization Paradox for Rural Communities in Africa

E-Agriculture and E-Government for Global Policy Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-820-8.ch007 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 103-120

Author(s):

Dawn Hinton ◽

Joseph Ofori-Dankwa

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Social Relations ◽

Sense Of Community ◽

Well Being ◽

African Countries ◽

Rural Villages ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Modernization Process ◽

Economic Well Being

Rural communities are being heavily influenced by the ongoing modernization process taking place in all African economies and nations. Theoretically the modernization process is intended to help lead to an increase in the economic well being of the citizenry. However, one of the unanticipated outcomes of continuing urbanization and modernization, particularly for rural communities would be the loss of local social relations within such communities. This is similar to what happened in the Western context, where modernization, in the form of industrialization resulted in the loss of social relationships and increasing sense of alienation as cities formed. There is therefore a very real fear that in the African context, the ensuing modernization will result in a paradox where modernization may lead to an increase in economic well-being, but have the unintended consequence of increasing alienation and reducing the sense of community that exists in rural villages. The purpose of this chapter is two-fold. First, the authors theoretically explore the possibility of using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to develop a sense of community in rural villages and thus offset and mitigate the more negative aspects of the modernization process. Second, they propose a way to conceptualize this potential paradox by integrating the well established sociological concepts of Gemeinschaft (community) and Gesellschaft (individualism) with current paradox models of diversity and similarity curves. Such an approach has pedagogical utility in helping to describe and explain the modern paradox confronted by most of the African countries.

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Self-reported Well-being and Perceived Health Status of Women in Child-Producing Age Living in Rural Communities on the Atlantic Ocean Coast in Southwest Nigeria

Diversity & Equality in Health and Care ◽

10.21767/2049-5471.1000155 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Dr Bamgboye M Afolabi ◽

Prof Emmanuel N Ezedinachi ◽

Dr Iwara Arikpo ◽

Prof Bassey Igri Okon ◽

Prof Martin Meremikwu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Health Status ◽

Rural Communities ◽

Atlantic Ocean ◽

Perceived Health ◽

Well Being ◽

Perceived Health Status ◽

Southwest Nigeria ◽

Status Of Women

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Optimism and self-efficacy mediate the association between shyness and subjective well-being among Chinese working adults v1 (protocols.io.mu5c6y6)

protocols.io ◽

10.17504/protocols.io.mu5c6y6 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Conghui Liu ◽

Ying Cheng ◽

Anna S ◽

Chuansheng Chen ◽

Jie Liu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Self Efficacy ◽

Well Being ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Working Adults

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The Association of Different Cyber-Victimization Types With Current Psychological and Health Status in Southern Appalachian Communities

Violence and Victims ◽

10.1891/vv-d-18-00214 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. VV-D-18-00214

Author(s):

Sherry Hamby ◽

Zach Blount ◽

Elizabeth Taylor ◽

Kimberly Mitchell ◽

Lisa Jones

Keyword(s):

Health Status ◽

Well Being ◽

Self Report ◽

Cyber Victimization ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Trauma Symptoms ◽

Southern Appalachian ◽

Related Quality ◽

Self Report Data ◽

Current Psychological

Research on cyber-victimization has primarily focused on cyberbullying conducted in urban and suburban (metropolitan) settings. We explore a range of cyber-victimizations, including financially motivated offenses and cyberbullying, and their associations with current psychological and health status in a nonmetropolitan sample from southern Appalachia. The forms of cyber-victimization were drawn from focus groups and interviews, and then self-report data on 14 types of cyber-victimization were collected from 478 individuals (57.1% female; age M = 36.44, SD = 16.61). Approximately 3 out of 4 participants (74.7%) reported experiencing at least one cyber-victimization. Cyber-victimization made many participants feel “very upset” (average 55.7%). Many forms of cyber-victimization were associated with elevated trauma symptoms, and lower subjective well-being and health-related quality of life. Cyber-victimization is common in this southern Appalachian community, with financially motivated incidents leading to higher prevalence rates than found in many other studies. In these data, numerous specific types of victimization, including cyber-theft, fraud, and legal-but-intrusive privacy invasions, were associated with worse psychological and physical health. More research is needed on technology-mediated victimization and these types of victimization should be more routinely included in violence assessments.

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The Effects of Health, Environmental, and Socio-Psychological Variables on Fear of Crime and its Consequences among Urban Black Elderly Individuals

The International Journal of Aging and Human Development ◽

10.2190/fhqy-5t3l-gadm-pud0 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 38 (2) ◽

pp. 99-115 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Mohsen Bazargan

Keyword(s):

Health Status ◽

Low Income ◽

Fear Of Crime ◽

Well Being ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Black Elderly ◽

Elderly Individuals ◽

Reported Health ◽

Self Reported Health Status ◽

Victimization Experience

Despite extensive research on fear of crime among elder members of the population, little attention has been paid to the fear of crime among Black urban elderly individuals. Using a sample of 372 low income urban Black persons aged sixty-two and over the causes and consequences of such fear were investigated. Fear of crime reduces subjective well-being of these older adults and limits their mobility. Age, gender, education, marital status, loneliness, self-reported health status, previous victimization experience, media exposure, trust of neighbors, length of residence, and type of housing were tested to identify significant predictors of fear of crime. Some of these variables had a diverse impact on fear of crime at home versus outside of the home. For example, while gender was the strongest predictor of fear of crime outside the home, it was not significantly associated with fear inside the home. Surprisingly, self-reported health status was not related to fear of crime among this sample of urban Black elderly individuals.

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