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Klomp, Jeroen; de Haan, Jakob – Social Indicators Research, 2013
We examine the relationship between different dimensions of the political regime in place and human capital using a two-step structural equation model. In the first step, we employ factor analysis on 16 human capital indicators to construct two new human capital measures (basic and advanced human capital). In the second step, we estimate the…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Human Capital, Democracy, Structural Equation Models
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Coromina, Lluis – Social Indicators Research, 2013
A crucial issue in the European Union (EU) is which policies should be regulated by EU and which ones by national governments. Given this situation it is interesting to study the citizens' preference for the level of political decision making. The interest of the paper is mainly empirical, which consists in the creation of a measure for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decision Making, Nationalism, Politics
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Casas, Ferran; Sarriera, Jorge Castella; Alfaro, Jaime; Gonzalez, Monica; Malo, Sara; Bertran, Irma; Figuer, Cristina; da Cruz, Daniel Abs; Bedin, Livia; Paradiso, Angela; Weinreich, Karin; Valdenegro, Boris – Social Indicators Research, 2012
The 7-item adult version of the Personal Wellbeing scale (Cummins et al. Social Indic Res 64:159-190, 2003) was administered to two samples of adolescents aged 12-16 in Brazil (N = 1,588) and Spain (N = 2,900), and to a sample of adolescents aged 14-16 in Chile (N = 843). The results obtained were analyzed to determine its psychometric…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Reliability, Factor Structure, Adolescents
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Cheng, Helen; Bynner, John; Wiggins, Richard; Schoon, Ingrid – Social Indicators Research, 2012
This paper presents an empirical evaluation of the internal consistency and validity of six attitudes scales assessing left-right beliefs, political cynicism, antiracism, libertarian-authoritarian views, and gender equality (two versions) in two large nationally representative samples of the British population born in 1958 and 1970. In the 1958…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Validity, Factor Structure, Social Change
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Casas, Ferran; Baltatescu, Sergiu; Bertran, Irma; Gonzalez, Monica; Hatos, Adrian – Social Indicators Research, 2013
This paper presents results from two samples of adolescents aged 13-16 from Romania and Spain (N = 930 + 1,945 = 2,875). The original 7-item version of the Personal Well-Being Index (PWI) was used, together with an item on overall life satisfaction (OLS) and a set of six items related to satisfaction with school. A confirmatory factor analysis of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models, Life Satisfaction, Factor Analysis
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Krishnakumar, Jaya; Nagar, A. L. – Social Indicators Research, 2008
Recent empirical literature has seen many multidimensional indices emerge as well-being or poverty measures, in particular indices derived from principal components and various latent variable models. Though such indices are being increasingly and widely employed, few studies motivate their use or report the standard errors or confidence intervals…
Descriptors: Intervals, Structural Equation Models, Factor Analysis, Computation
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Mazaheri, Mehrdad; Theuns, Peter – Social Indicators Research, 2009
The current study evaluates three hypothesized models on subjective well-being, comprising life domain ratings (LDR), overall satisfaction with life (OSWL), and overall dissatisfaction with life (ODWL), using structural equation modeling (SEM). A sample of 1,310 volunteering students, randomly assigned to six conditions, rated their overall life…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Structural Equation Models, Well Being, Predictive Validity
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Gonzalez, Monica; Casas, Ferran; Coenders, Germa – Social Indicators Research, 2007
Psychological well-being in adolescence is an increasing field of study. Deepening in its knowledge during this period of life can be of a lot of help to the designing of more adjusted prevention programs aimed to avoid or reduce the problems adolescents might be experiencing. Complexity theories can be a productive alternative to the important…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Prevention, Well Being, Adolescents