1Center for Applied Health Research, Baylor Scott & White Health | School of Public Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station. 2Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Iowa State University, Ames. 3Institute of Gerontology, University of Georgia, Athens. 4Georgia Centenarian Study group included Maurice MacDonald, S. Michal Jazwinski, Robert C. Green, Marla Gearing, W...

During the last years researchers have shown an increasing interest in differences between the selfemployed and employees regarding how they feel about work. A persistent result is that self-employed are more satisfied with their jobs than wage-earners are. This paper extends the comparison between the well-being of self-employed and wage-earners to also incorporate mental health problems, phys...

One of-the major issues in social gerontology is, and has been, the relationship between social integration and psychological well-being during old age. There are two major theories which predict opposite outcomes. Activity theory suggests that the aging individual should compensate for role losses by increasing activities in other areas, such as friendship, in order to be happy (Havighurst & A...

BACKGROUND Job related affective well-being is important for a healthy life and job satisfaction for all individuals, including physicians. The later group, however, is most often compromised. OBJECTIVES We aimed to investigate a group of Turkish primary health care physicians' job related emotional perceptions and to assess their reactions in terms of stress, anxiety and depression. METHOD...

PURPOSE This study assessed overall quality of life of caregivers, using a path model in which burden was conceptualized as distinct from well-being. DESIGN AND METHODS Data were drawn from a representative sample of caregivers to dementia and nondementia care receivers in British Columbia, Canada (N = 243). The model used was based on a previously proposed stress/appraisal path model and use...

The current study examined problematic Internet use (PIU) among people who play MMO games and sought to determine whether aspects of the MMO experience are useful predictors of PIU. The study sought to determine whether game-related variables could predict PIU scores after accounting for their relationships with psychosocial well-being. Novel methods allowed us, for the first time, to connect i...

Previous studies on the health of childimmigrants were carried out primarily in the USA, with fewer studies carried out in Europe.2,3 Findings from these studies were equivocal. Some studies found that immigrant children fare worse compared to their native peers in relation to mental health, risk behaviour, academic achievements, health and well being,4,5 some reported that immigrant children f...

INTRODUCTION A growing research literature associates various religious factors with positive mental and physical health, and even suggests that aspects of religious involvement may reduce mortality risk (for reviews, see Ellison, 1994; Koenig, 1994; Levin, 1994). Although there is wealth of evidence that religious institutions continue to play important social and political roles in the Africa...

The study on Parental Bonding and Psychological Well-being was conducted in Sriperumbudur among 60 young adults. The tools used were Parental Bonding Instrument and Psychological General Well – being Index. The bonding or attachment that a child has with parents have a great impact on their personality traits and well being. Children who have a secure attachment with their parents tend to be le...