Life changes, illness and personal life satisfaction in a rural population

1979 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 175-181
Author(s):  
Alex C. Michalos
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Rural Population ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Life Changes

Sex differences in perception of illness and expressed life satisfaction

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica E. Briscoe
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Preliminary Survey ◽  
Life Domains ◽  
Medical Facilities ◽  
Experience Of Illness

SYNOPSISA preliminary survey of 10 married couples was carried out to test the hypothesis that women express greater dissatisfaction with their health and other personal life domains than men. Although the women made more use of medical facilities for minor complaints than their husbands, no difference was found in expressed satisfaction, or in number or severity of symptoms reported at interview. However, there was a discrepancy between husbands' and wives' perception of their spouses' satisfaction levels and experience of illness-symptoms, in the direction of wives being perceived by their husbands as considerably less healthy and more dissatisfied than the husbands were rated by their wives. Some evidence was also found for greater emotionality in women. The results are regarded as indicating that illness is more socially acceptable in women than in men.

scholarly journals Smoking Cessation and Quality of Life: Changes in Life Satisfaction Over 3 Years Following a Quit Attempt

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan E. Piper ◽  
Susan Kenford ◽  
Michael C. Fiore ◽  
Timothy B. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Life Changes ◽  
Quit Attempt

scholarly journals PREDICTING THE FUTURE AND SATISFACTION WITH LIFE

2017 ◽  
pp. 53-61
Author(s):  
T. M. Tytarenko
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Verbal Form ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level

According to our results, increase in productivity of personal prediction has a positive influence on life satisfaction. The present research explores what role the various types of future prediction play in personal life satisfaction. The study focuses on some psychological time phenomena: desires, life choices, aspirations, motivations. To influence personal well-being the desires might be mature, productive, strong and adequately assessed the current life situation. For high level of well-being intrapersonal desires are more important than interpersonal ones. The life choice determining the horizon prediction leads to the transformation of meanings due to the development of new causal sequences of life-satisfaction. The satisfaction with own self and own life world grows when a person makes life-changing decisions from some alternatives. There are the criteria of readiness for significant choices to increase life-satisfaction: self-organizing; psychosemantic; subjective; functional; operational. The stages of life aspirations include communicative semiotization for defining unconscious ambitions and the registration of the forecast as an underway to the desired plot of worthy life, the narration activation leads to the verbal form of the forecast as a desirable plot of a worthy life, and purposeful creation of the story about decent future life, known as setting the concrete tasks. Motivation-semantic future structuring determines the personal life-satisfaction while taking the narrative form in different contexts of communication. The future structuring which is directly related to the effort to optimize the quality of life is self-creating and re-assessment one; in the 1-st model a person re-assesses adopted values and the source of life changes as changes of own self through the integration of new experience; in the 2-and model the values are already adopted, interpreted, and the movement is due to the changes in life situation.

scholarly journals Personal Life Satisfaction as a Measure of Societal Happiness is an Individualistic Presumption: Evidence from Fifty Countries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuba Krys ◽  
Joonha Park ◽  
Agata Kocimska-Zych ◽  
Aleksandra Kosiarczyk ◽  
Heyla A. Selim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Country Level

Abstract Numerous studies document that societal happiness is correlated with individualism, but the nature of this phenomenon remains understudied. In the current paper, we address this gap and test the reasoning that individualism correlates with societal happiness because the most common measure of societal happiness (i.e., country-level aggregates of personal life satisfaction) is individualism-themed. With the data collected from 13,009 participants across fifty countries, we compare associations of four types of happiness (out of which three are more collectivism-themed than personal life satisfaction) with two different measures of individualism. We replicated previous findings by demonstrating that societal happiness measured as country-level aggregate of personal life satisfaction is correlated with individualism. Importantly though, we also found that the country-level aggregates of the collectivism-themed measures of happiness do not tend to be significantly correlated with individualism. Implications for happiness studies and for policy makers are signaled.

Life Stress, Organizational Stress, and Job Satisfaction

1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irwin G. Sarason ◽  
James H. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Life Stress ◽  
Organizational Stress ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Life Changes ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
The Relationship

The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between changes, experienced both within the personal lives of individuals and within the work environment, and job satisfaction. Results suggest that negative life changes experienced within one's personal life are related to lower levels of satisfaction while both positive and negative changes experienced within the work environment are correlated with satisfaction, positive changes being related to higher levels and negative changes being related to lower levels of satisfaction. The implications of these findings for assessing organizational stress and for the prediction of attrition from organizations are discussed.

Age-Related Attributions of Experienced Changes in Life: Origins and Implications

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Rothermund ◽  
Maria Clara Pinheiro de Paula Couto ◽  
Helene H Fung ◽  
Sylvie Graf ◽  
Thomas M Hess ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Life Changes ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Future Project ◽  
Subjective Aging

Abstract Objectives Attributing life changes to age represents a core marker of the subjective experience of aging. The aims of our study were to investigate views on aging (VA) as origins of age-related attributions of life changes and to investigate the implications of these age-related attributions for personal control (PC) and life satisfaction (LS). Methods Life changes and the attribution of life changes to age were independently assessed on a large international sample of older adults (N = 2,900; age range 40–90 years) from the Ageing as Future project. The valence of VA, PC, and LS were also assessed to investigate possible determinants (VA) and consequences (PC and LS) of age-related attributions of life changes. Results Attributions to age were shown to depend on the valence of experienced life changes, with more negative changes being linked to more age-related attributions. This relation was moderated by the valence of personally held VA, with more negative VA amplifying the relation between negative life changes and age-related attributions. Age-related attributions predicted reduced PC and lower LS and were found to exacerbate the effects of negative life changes on LS, especially for the older cohorts of our sample. Discussion Our findings help to better understand what determines age-related attributions of life changes and highlight the negative consequences of attributing them to aging. Age-related attributions of change are a major factor that worsens the subjective aging experience. Methodologically, our study emphasizes the necessity to separately assess changes and their attributions to age.

scholarly journals Transitions, Wellness, and Life Satisfaction: Implications for Counseling Midlife Women

2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Degges-White ◽  
Jane E. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Midlife Women ◽  
Mental Health Counselors ◽  
Life Changes ◽  
Common Life ◽  
Midlife Transitions

A diverse sample of 224 women, aged 35 to 65, participated in a study to examine the relations among transitions, life satisfaction, and wellness. The Women's Midlife Transitions Survey, developed for this study, provided information on the timeliness, expectedness, and impact of common midlife transitions. Implications for mental health counselors include the need to help midlife women understand and cope with a variety of common life changes that individually and collectively help to define their midlife experience.

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