Three studies were conducted to examine the role of global life satisfaction in the discrepancy between specific and global domain satisfaction. Participants rated both global (e.g., education) and the corresponding, specific domain (e.g., professors, textbooks) satisfactions. In 3 studies, we found that individuals with higher life satisfaction evaluated global domain as a whole as more satisf...

The family and the work place are two arenas of central importance for most adult people. Consequently, one can assume that the level of satisfaction with one’s family life and job may be critical to one’s level of happiness in general. However, there are reasons to believe that there are variations according to gender and gender regime. The general aim of this study is to analyse the relative ...

www.pharmacypractice.org (ISSN: 1886-3655) 157 ABSTRACT Objective: The opinion about pharmacy services was studied using an instrument which measured satisfaction with pharmacy services. The main focus of the instrument was to assess patients’ opinion and expectation of the present pharmacy services. Method: The instrument contained 20 items, which were grouped based on their similarity into ei...

I define wellbeing as preference realization. Wellbeing can be measured with affective (the amount of pleasant versus unpleasant experiences) and cognitive (satisfaction with life in general and life domains) measures. Since its inception 25 years ago, the SOEP has included cognitive measures of wellbeing. In 2007, the SOEP included four items (happy, sad, angry, afraid) as an affective measure...

OBJECTIVE The opinion about pharmacy services was studied using an instrument which measured satisfaction with pharmacy services. The main focus of the instrument was to assess patients' opinion and expectation of the present pharmacy services. METHOD The instrument contained 20 items, which were grouped based on their similarity into eight dimensions, namely, General satisfaction, Interperso...

OBJECTIVES To measure general practitioners' intentions to quit direct patient care, to assess changes between 1998 and 2000, and to investigate associated factors, notably job satisfaction. DESIGN Analysis of national postal surveys conducted in 1998 and 2001. SETTING England. PARTICIPANTS 1949 general practitioner principals, of whom 790 were surveyed in 1998 and 1159 in 2001. MAIN OU...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate quality of life and patients' satisfaction in transsexual patients (TS) after sex reassignment operation compared with healthy controls. DESIGN A case-control study. SETTING A tertiary referral center. PATIENT(S) Patients after sex reassignment operation were compared with a similar group of healthy controls in respect to quality of life and general satisfaction. I...

BACKGROUND The WHOQOL-BREF is one of the best-known instruments that have been developed for cross-cultural comparisons of quality of life and currently it is available in more than 40 languages. Current study was done to provide: (1) the psychometrics properties of the Iranian version of WHOQOL-BREF and (2) the norm scores for satisfaction with life overall and satisfaction with specific Life ...

Objectives To measure general practitioners’ intentions to quit direct patient care, to assess changes between 1998 and 2000, and to investigate associated factors, notably job satisfaction. Design Analysis of national postal surveys conducted in 1998 and 2001. Setting England. Participants 1949 general practitioner principals, of whom 790 were surveyed in 1998 and 1159 in 2001. Main outcome me...