PURPOSE To examine children's health-related quality of life and parents' satisfaction with life and explore the association between the two in families where a child has a rare disorder. METHODS We used a cross-sectional study design. A questionnaire was sent to parents of 439 school children (6-18 years) with congenital rare disorders. Children's health-related quality of life (HRQOL) was e...

Studies investigating the impact of combining paid work and family life on wellbeing have generally used information at one or a limited number of points in the life course, and have mainly focused on women. This study uses multi-channel sequence analysis to characterise work-family life courses across adulthood (ages 16-60) for more than 1500 men and women in the MRC National Study of Health a...

BACKGROUND Serious substance misuse and dependence is widely seen as damaging to an individual and to society in general. Whereas the medical and society effects of substance misuse are widely described, some commentators suggest substance misuse may be an "alternative lifestyle". AIM To assess general life satisfaction amongst treatment-seeking people with substance dependence. METHODS The...

The aim of the present study was to test the model of relationships between dispositional mindfulness, core self-evaluations and life satisfaction in a sample of Chinese adults. Three hundred and ten participants with an age range of 18–50 years completed the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS), the Core Self-evaluations Scale (CSES) and the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS). The results...

The objective of this study was to investigate the substantive aspect of construct validity of the Satisfaction with Life Scale adapted for Children (SWLS-C; Gadermann et al. in Soc Indic Res 96:229–247, 2010). Specifically, the study examined the cognitive processes of children when responding to the items of the SWLS-C to find out how they interpret and respond to the items. Think-aloud proto...

background: infertility and its treatment can have a considerable effect on a person's quality of life (qol). the fertility quality of life (fertiqol) questionnaire is currently the most frequently used instrument to measure qol in people experiencing fertility problem. this study was conducted to examine the reliability and validity of the fertiqol in iranian infertile women. materials and met...

Background: Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) is the most widely used instrument to assess subjective well-being in different populations.