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Chen, Ying-Chieh; Li, Ren-Hau; Chen, Sheng-Hwang – Social Indicators Research, 2013
The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to test a cause-and-effect model of factors affecting leisure satisfaction among Taiwanese adolescents. A structural equation model was proposed in which the relationships among leisure motivation, leisure involvement, and leisure satisfaction were explored. The study collected data from 701 adolescent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Adolescents, Structural Equation Models
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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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Hallerod, Bjorn; Bask, Miia – Social Indicators Research, 2008
The central aim of the present paper is to analyse the degree to which welfare problems accumulate over time and to what extent such an accumulation is related to class position and household formation. We utilize longitudinal data from the Swedish Survey of Living Conditions, following a panel that was first interviewed in 1979 and, thereafter,…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Disadvantaged Environment, Longitudinal Studies, National Surveys