Title of dissertation: LONGITUDINAL PREDICTION OF DOMAIN SATISFACTION AND GLOBAL LIFE SATISFACTION: TEST OF A SOCIAL COGNITIVE MODEL Daniel Browne Singley, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Dissertation directed by: Professor Robert Lent Counseling and Personnel Services The experience of life satisfaction has been studied at a global level and in specific domains of life such as work, marriage, and a...

OBJECTIVE To investigate levels of life satisfaction in subjects with long-term musculoskeletal pain in relation to pain characteristics and coping. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. METHODS A total of 232 (42%) respondents answered self--report questionnaires regarding life satisfaction, self-efficacy, sense of coherence, pain distribution and pain intensity at rest and during activity. RESU...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to measure knowledge and attitude about aging and life satisfaction among older Korean adults and to examine the influence of attitude and knowledge about aging on these adults' life satisfaction. METHODS A cross-sectional and correlational design was used. A total of 405 older adults were surveyed using a written questionnaire at six elderly welfare cent...

BACKGROUND Subjective well-being (SWB) can be partitioned into the components life satisfaction and affect. Research on factors influencing these components of well-being has mainly focused on environmental characteristics. The aim of this study was to investigate the relative contribution of genes and environment to individual differences in life satisfaction in a large sample of Dutch twins a...

PURPOSE The present study examined the positive-thinking and life satisfaction of the general Korean population. In particular, we examined the role of positive-thinking on participants' life satisfaction. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a telephone survey of 409 respondents (194 males, 215 females). The participants provided self-reports on their positive thinking, life satisfaction and d...

Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has essentially followed the life satisfaction trajectory of the central and eastern European transition countries--a U-shaped swing and a nil or declining trend. There is no evidence of an increase in life satisfaction of the magnitude that might have been expected to result from the fourfold improvement in th...

Life Satisfaction, Income and Personality We use personality traits to better understand the relationship between income and life satisfaction. Personality traits mediate the effect of income on life satisfaction. The effect of neuroticism, which measures sensitivity to threat and punishment, is strong in both the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socioeconomic Panel. Neuroticism in...

Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment, income, marriage, sex, health and age. Communist Party membership and political participation raise l...

Older adults report higher psychological well-being than younger adults. Those highest in well-being also have the lowest risk of mortality. If those with lower well-being die earlier, it could affect the appearance of developmental change in well-being. In adults aged 50 and older (N = 4,458), we estimated effects of differential mortality on life satisfaction by imputing life satisfaction, ad...