Validation of Global Self-Rated Health and Happiness Measures Among Older People in the Yilan Study, Taiwan

Lin, Yen-Huai; Chen, Hsi‐Chung; Hsu, Nan‐Yung; Chou, Pesus

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2020.00346

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“…There is a vast amount of literature using self-reports of psychosocial cognitions using a single item. For example, a single-item question of happiness was positively associated with older age and negatively correlated with anxiety, indicative of a valid tool for population studies [ 43 , 44 ].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Associations of the Initial COVID-19 Lockdown on Self-Reported Happiness and Worry about Developing Loneliness: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Rural, Regional, and Urban Australian Communities

Isaac

Cheng

Townsin

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Australia adopted hard lockdown measures to eliminate community transmission of COVID-19. Lockdown imposes periods of social isolation that contributes to increased levels of stress, anxiety, depression, loneliness, and worry. We examined whether lockdowns have similar psychosocial associations across rural and urban areas and whether associations existed between happiness and worry of loneliness in the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. Data were collected using the “COVID-19 Living Survey” between 13 and 20 May 2020 by BehaviourWorks Australia at the Monash Sustainable Development Institute. The mean self-reported feeling of happiness and anxiousness (N = 1593), on a 10-point Likert scale with 0 being least happy or highly anxious, was 6.5 (SD = 2.4) and 3.9 (2.9), respectively. Factors associated with happiness were older age and having a postgraduate education. Participants worried about becoming lonely also exhibited reduced happiness (estimate = −1.58, 95%CI = −1.84–−1.32) and higher anxiousness (2.22, 1.93–2.51) scores, and these conditions remained associated after adjusting for demographics. Interestingly, worry about loneliness was greater in rural areas than in urban communities. The negative impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on rural youth and those less-educated was evident. Participants in rural Australia who were worried about becoming lonely were reportedly less happy than participants in major cities. This dataset provides a better understanding of factors that influence psychological well-being and quality of life in the Australian population and helps to determine whether happiness may be an associative factor that could mitigate self-feelings of anxiety and worry about loneliness.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Associations of the Initial COVID-19 Lockdown on Self-Reported Happiness and Worry about Developing Loneliness: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Rural, Regional, and Urban Australian Communities

Isaac

Cheng

Townsin

et al. 2021

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“…Subjective well-being is a hot research topic in psychology and social science. Generally speaking, psychological researches focus on the psychological mechanisms by which humans obtain wellbeing, while sociological research focuses more on the external macro and micro factors that affect subjective well-being (25,26). In recent years, an increasing number of factors have been incorporated into the theoretical and empirical analyses of influences on subjective well-being.…”

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confidence: 99%

Can China's New Rural Cooperative Medical System Improve Farmers' Subjective Well-Being?

Liu

Tian

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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The New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS) is one of the essential systems for ensuring public health in rural China. This paper investigates the effect of farmers' participation in the NRCMS on their subjective well-being and its mechanisms using data from the Chinese General Social Survey 2017. The results show that farmers' participation in the NRCMS significantly enhances their subjective well-being, and these results remain robust after regression with the instrumental variables method and propensity score matching method. Further analysis of the mechanisms suggests that participation in the NRCMS can enhance farmers' subjective well-being by increasing their consumption levels other than medical consumption. Moreover, medical consumption levels play a negative role in participating in the NRCMS on farmers' subjective well-being, which can be explained as the “masking effect.” The regression results of the subsamples show that the higher a farmer's income is, the less his or her participation in the NRCMS enhances subjective well-being. And the effect of participation in the NRCMS on farmers' subjective well-being is not significant if their health status is too high or too low.

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“…A study conducted in Central China has also found a positive relationship between self-rated health and older adults' subjective well-being (Zhang et al, 2008). Such a relationship has also been found among other Chinese population groups, such as Taiwanese and Chinese immigrants in the US (Kim et al, 2017;Lin et al, 2020).…”

Section: Literature Review Age Health and Happinessmentioning

confidence: 76%

The Older, the Happier?: A Cross-Sectional Study on the “Paradox of Aging” in China

Lai

Chappell

2021

Res Aging

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The “paradox of aging” refers to the phenomenon that even though people’s physical health and functions may decline when they enter later adulthood, their happiness does not necessarily. Previous studies have shown that older adults’ better emotional regulation skills may contribute to the maintenance of their happiness. This study aims to examine the relationship between age, health, and happiness, and the moderating role of emotional stability. We adopted a nationally representative sample (n = 10,968) from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) and performed weight-adjusted regression models with interaction terms. There is generally an S-shaped age-happiness relationship with significant urban-rural differences. Emotional stability buffers the negative association between health and happiness, and this moderating effect was stronger among older than younger adults, especially in rural China. This study calls for special attention paid to the oldest-old population in rural China and older adults’ emotional regulation skills.

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Validation of Global Self-Rated Health and Happiness Measures Among Older People in the Yilan Study, Taiwan

Cited by 19 publications

References 46 publications

Associations of the Initial COVID-19 Lockdown on Self-Reported Happiness and Worry about Developing Loneliness: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Rural, Regional, and Urban Australian Communities

Associations of the Initial COVID-19 Lockdown on Self-Reported Happiness and Worry about Developing Loneliness: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Rural, Regional, and Urban Australian Communities

Can China's New Rural Cooperative Medical System Improve Farmers' Subjective Well-Being?

The Older, the Happier?: A Cross-Sectional Study on the “Paradox of Aging” in China

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