How strongly related are health status and subjective well-being? Systematic review and meta-analysis

Ngamaba, Kayonda Hubert; Panagioti, Maria; Armitage, Christopher J.

doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckx081

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“…This study has also shown that being healthy is stronger correlated with both life satisfaction and happiness positively. This confirms a lot of studies done by Ngamaba, Panagioti, & Armitage (2017) and Friedman & Kern (2014) that being physically and psychologically healthy is correlated with people's SWB, individuals who have poor health have been reported to have poor subjective well-being. Moreover, married people have been reported to have good health compared to single people (Bulloch, Williams, Lavorato, & Patten, 2017).…”

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Marital Status and Subjective Well-Being: Does Education Level Take Into Account?

Ndayambaje

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Following western trends besides several Asian countries, Indonesian families are experiencing an increase numbers of single men and women which seems to ignore traditional standards ages of getting married for both gentlemen and ladies. Indonesian youth in this category are subjected to social pressure to marry, and this affect their subjective well-being. Using data from Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) 2014; 5th wave with 29,160 participants (15,581 women and 13,579 men) from 15,160 households and 297 Districts, This study was aimed at studying how marital status and subjective well-being are related in Indonesia, and how education take into account. Linear regression was performed to calculate the estimation correlation. After controlling confounding variables, the results show that married people are happier than singles, divorced, and widowers. In educational field, the research findings revealed that highly educated people are happier and satisfied than those who are less educated. Based on the results of this study, governments, policymakers, and their stakeholders need to encourage people to be engaged in education so that they rise their happiness. Further research orientations and recommendations were discussed for future researchers and policymakers to improve people’s well-being.

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Marital Status and Subjective Well-Being: Does Education Level Take Into Account?

Ndayambaje

Pierewan

Nizeyumukiza

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“…As reported by the previous study, the association between health and SWB of individuals were statistically significant and positive, which mean by improving people's health, the government can improve the SWB of their citizens (Ngamaba, Panagioti, & Armitage, 2017). There is a bidirectional relationship between physical health and SWB, with SWB and health are also closely linked to age (Steptoe, Deaton, & Stoone, 2015).…”

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Determinants of Subjective Well-Being: A Systematic Review

Azizan

Mahmud

2018

E-BPJ

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In recent years, there has been increasing in the number of research focusing on subjective well-being issues in many countries all over the world. It also received considerable attention from the Malaysian government nowadays in order to improve the overall quality of life of the people in the country. Subjective well-being concerning with people happiness and overall life satisfaction towards their own day-to-day life experience. This systematic review is conducted to explore and highlight the determinants of subjective well-being to be research on in detail in the future study. A total of 60 articles obtained from academic search engines and online databases which are Google Scholar, ScienceDirect and Scopus have been chosen to be reviewed within a period from September 2017 until January 2018. Only articles obtained through journals indexed in Scopus and ISI will be included in this study, with only 33 articles eligible for final review. From the review, it was found that besides personality factors, health, religious commitment and spirituality, the socio-economic attributes such as income, financial and employment status are the most focusing determinants of subjective well-being among the researchers. For future research, it is recommended that to further study by conducting an interview with the target respondents, reviewing relevant articles for the purpose of identifying the suitable measurement instrument to be used for the survey and then conducting empirical research for determining the most contribution factors of subjective well-being among the society as the results that will obtain through empirical research will provide more accurate findings and will become a useful guidance for the government in implementing the effective and relevant policies which benefits to the people in the country.

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“…The present results also suggest that self-rated health is an important determinant of multiple elements of positive wellbeing. Previous studies have found that subjective and/or self-related health tend to be closely associated with measures of individual wellbeing (Staptoe et al, 2015), although this hypothesis has not been fully tested and there is no consensus on what process can explain this relationship (Monden, 2014;Ngamaba, Panagioti, & Armitage, 2017). Maintaining good health increases the capacity of an older person to live independently, conduct activities of daily living, and perform other personal care activities and household work, which entail autonomy, reflected in the older person's psychological wellbeing (Celik, Celik, Hikmet, & Khan, 2017).…”

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Sociodemographic Factors’ Association with Community-Dwelling Older Adults’ Psychosocial Wellbeing: The Greek Context

Papadopoulos¹

2020

PSYCH

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This cross-sectional study aimed to examine the associations of sex, age, marital status, education attainment, religious involvement, perceived health, and income with psychosocial domains of wellbeing assessed using the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15), Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS), and Spiritual Wellbeing Scale (SWBS). In total, 356 community-dwelling older adults from Greece, aged 65 years and above, completed a sociodemographic survey and psychosocial self-reported questionnaires. Bivariate and stepwise regression analyses helped to determine the sociodemographic factors' associations with their wellbeing. These background predictors together explained a significant part of the variance in scores on all psychosocial domains: 31% for GDS-15, 44% for SHS, 63% for SWLS, and 58% for SWBS. After controlling for other sociodemographic factors, both being healthy and attending church were related to better outcomes in the domains of happiness, life satisfaction, and spiritual wellbeing. Higher income was related to better outcomes on all domains of wellbeing, while higher educational attainment was related to worse outcomes on all domains of wellbeing. Marital status was positively related to depression only. Thus, successful aging approaches may benefit from a deeper understanding of wellbeing and its predictors, which are essential to improve older adults' psychosocial wellness.

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How strongly related are health status and subjective well-being? Systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract: Background: Health status is widely considered to be closely associated with subjective

Cited by 235 publications

References 37 publications

Marital Status and Subjective Well-Being: Does Education Level Take Into Account?

Marital Status and Subjective Well-Being: Does Education Level Take Into Account?

Determinants of Subjective Well-Being: A Systematic Review

Sociodemographic Factors’ Association with Community-Dwelling Older Adults’ Psychosocial Wellbeing: The Greek Context

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