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Protective Factors for Subjective Well-being in Chinese Older Adults: The Roles of Resources and Activity

verfasst von: Bibing Dai, Baoshan Zhang, Juan Li

Erschienen in: Journal of Happiness Studies | Ausgabe 4/2013

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The purpose of current study was to examine the relationships between resources, activity, and subjective well-being in later life. Using a national sample (N = 3,795) of older adults randomly selected from major Chinese mainland cities, we integrated the constructs of resources and activity into a structural model of subjective well-being. In the model, the three key resources, health, economic status and family relations, were specified as having direct effects on both activity and subjective well-being. Additionally, activity was specified as having a direct effect on subjective well-being. AMOS software was used to test and compare the goodness of fit of various models. The data had a satisfactory fit to the model (GFI = 0.980, NNFI = 0.959, CFI = 0.973, RMSEA = 0.049), indicating that the three resources had significant contributions to subjective well-being. Comparisons using several nested models also suggested that family relations had a stronger effect than health and economic status on subjective well-being. Further, activity was a partial mediator in the relationships between resources and subjective well-being.

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We removed the cases that with more than 10 % missing items from the dataset before conducting the analysis. The participants that were not included in the final analysis tend to forget to response on items in the same page. As a result, many (or even all) items of some scales used in current study were missing. We believed that these cases must have significant influences on the final results and distort the fact that we are searching for. For the remaining 3,795 participants in the sample, limited itemscores were missing (not more than 0.5 %).

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Titel: Protective Factors for Subjective Well-being in Chinese Older Adults: The Roles of Resources and Activity
verfasst von: Bibing Dai
Baoshan Zhang
Juan Li
Publikationsdatum: 01.08.2013
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Happiness Studies / Ausgabe 4/2013
Print ISSN: 1389-4978
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7780
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-012-9378-7

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