Socio-economic, psychological and ecological aspects of lifelong well-being

Socio-economic status and subjective well-being

Increasing socio-economic status is associated with increasing levels of subjective well-being. Subjective well-being is in turn associated with physical and mental health. In this study, socio-economic gradients in subjective well-being are investigated in a large cross-section of the British population. Higher socioeconomic groups are more satisfied with life and have fewer psychosomatic symp...

Ecological and Socio-ecological Economic Models

How Should We Measure the “economic” Aspects of Well-being?

The Human Development Index (HDI) uses GDP per capita to measure “command over resources,” which implicitly makes the strong value judgment that inequality and insecurity do not matter. This paper presents revised estimates of the Index of Economic Well-Being (IEWB) for the United States, the U.K., Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 and demonstrates that r...

Religiosity and Psychological Well-Being

The aim of the current study was to explore the link between religiosity and psychological wellbeing in a model of Pakistani Muslims. Earlier research has acknowledged a positive relationship between the two factors. The sample (65 men and 85 women) with an age range from 18 to 60 years was chosen. Religiosity was operationalized as religious gatherings attendance, belief salience and frequency...

Parentification and Psychological Well-being

While it is clear that parenting behaviors impact adolescent adjustment in a number of ways (Steinberg, 2001), less is known about how parenting changes over time as children develop across adolescence. The current study has two goals: first, to examine longitudinal measurement invariance of a parenting behavior measure assessing acceptance, rejection, and consistent discipline by mother and fa...