According to previous research findings, objective life conditions such as physical health, socioeconomic status, financial situation, the physical environment, and social involvement cannot fully explain the well-being of older persons. Instead, personality characteristics and developmental influences appear to have a stronger impact. This study combines personality and individual development ...

Background: Relatively little is known about the sexual behaviors of older people, and the relationship between quality of life and sexuality has not been fully explored. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of sociological, cultural, and psychological factors to further explain variance beyond biological changes that influence participation in sexual intercourse, se...

Rapid diffusion of mobile telephone services is accompanied with low satisfaction and high switching behavior many markets. Despite the popularity of technology diffusion studies in marketing literature, limited research concentrate on the impact of marketing mix variables vis-à-vis clients’ satisfaction. Much fewer studies were conducted in developing nations. This paper investigates the influ...

The current study was designed to examine the predictive validity of several factors that are common to spinal cord injury (SCI) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) populations to overall life satisfaction. We examined several demographic and functional predictors (1) within each group separately and (2) using both groups while controlling for unique predictors within groups. Participants included...

This study demonstrates how self-evaluation processes explain subgroup differences in ratings of life satisfaction (population heterogeneity). Life domains differ with regard to the constraints they impose on beliefs in internal control. We hypothesized that these differences are linked with cognitive biases in ratings of life satisfaction. In fact, two subgroups of respondents needed to be dis...

The purpose of the present study is to explain sociologically the couples’ common life relationships by family educative patterns. Statistical population includes 10692 couples in Farashband City. The sample size of this research is estimated 370 people using SPSS Software. A multi-stage random sampling method used which was according to blocking map of Farashband city. A number of blocks were ...

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...

With the publication of its 100th paper, the new open access Journal Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (HQLO), achieves a significant milestone. Launching a journal in this field was not just a challenge with respect to nomenclature, [1] but also provided a forum for disseminating research which emphasises the unique contributions as well as the inter-relationships among determinants of healt...