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Comparing Subjective Well-being Longitudinally: Measurement Invariance of the Personal Wellbeing Index Across Time
The Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) is commonly used as an instrument for measuring subjective well-being, and longitudinal comparisons of PWI scores...
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Consumer Financial Capability and Financial Wellbeing; Multi-Year Analyses
The positive association between financial capability and financial wellbeing is well-established in the literature. However, research is limited in...
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Measuring Wellbeing Across Culture and Context – are we Getting it Right? Evaluating the Variation in Wellbeing Conceptualisations Throughout the World
Researchers, practitioners, and policy makers have been increasingly interested in measuring wellbeing over the last two decades. However, with many...
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New Approach to Measure Wellbeing: A Case Study on Bangladesh
Understanding wellbeing is fundamental to any effort to enhance it. Using the latest World Values Survey (WVS), this study examines the incidence,...
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Using an index of wellbeing for older people in small areas of Australia to assist identifying services required
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For older people, place is crucial as it is where support networks, social relationships and family are. Older people develop a sense of...
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Develo** a Comprehensive Multidimensional Wellbeing Index Based on What People Value: An Application to a Middle-Income Country
We introduce a comprehensive policy-relevant measure of multidimensional wellbeing conceptually rooted in Amartya Sen’s capability approach and...
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Beyond Material Resources: Sleep Well and Be Hopeful for Less Worry and Better Wellbeing
The extreme scarcity of material resources related to survival needs often hurts wellbeing. This occurred during COVID-19 outbreaks when the...
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Geographic Reference Income and the Subjective Wellbeing of Australians
In this paper panel data is used to estimate the relationship between geographic reference income and subjective wellbeing in Australia. Recent...
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Aristotelian Flourishing and Contemporary Philosophical Theories of Wellbeing
Several philosophical theories of wellbeing claim Aristotelian ancestry and employ an Aristotelian construct of flourishing. Yet it is not clear how...
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Youth Health and Wellbeing in Digital Cultures
As the global spread of digital technologies and media continues, so too has research responding to the question of whether these digital...
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Subjective Wellbeing of Community Dwelling Older Adults in Nigeria
Previous comparative international studies on wellbeing of older adults in Africa have presented figures based on indicators which tend to obscure...
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Personal well-being index as a measure of quality of life of diverse groups of people with visual impairment and blindness
Today, the world adopts various assessment tools and indices to measure quality of life (QoL) of different persons. The Personal Well-being Index...
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Social wellbeing, values, and identity among Caiçara small-scale fishers in southeastern Brazil
Although much in the lives of members of the Caiçara small-scale fishing communities of Lázaro and Saco da Ribeira in Ubatuba, southeastern Brazil...
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Examining the Pathways from General Trust Through Social Connectedness to Subjective Wellbeing
The broad conceptualisation of wellbeing has allowed researchers to establish subjective wellbeing as a valid indicator of social development....
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The Impact of Housing Tenure on Financial Wellbeing Among Elderly Australians
Homeownership rates are declining in many countries and the potential impact on financial wellbeing is largely unknown. Additionally, the potential...
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Relative Importance of Individual and Community Predictors of Wellbeing
Inspired by theory in wellbeing science, we examined the relative importance of lifestyle factors and living conditions when predicting two...
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The role of religious capital in sha** wellbeing of individuals
By investigating the role of religiosity in sha** Human Well-being, this study bridges the gap through quantitative study on the importance of...
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Polysemy and the sociolinguistics of policy ideas: resilience, sustainability and wellbeing 2000–2020
In policy studies, there is a concern with understanding how new ideas affect policymaking. Central to this is the issue of how ideas become...
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Bowling Alone in Taiwan? Political Trust and Civic Participation of Taiwanese and Their Appraisal of Liberal Democracy and Personal Wellbeing
Based on a nationwide survey dataset collected by Taiwan’s Executive Yuan (2017) (N = 2737) and adopting structural equation modelling with...
