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Direct linkMichele W. Marenus; Kathryn Friedman; Julia Sanowski; Andy Murray; Haley Ottensoser; Ana Cahuas; Varun Kumaravel; Weiyun Chen – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the association of mental health, subjective well-being, and the impact of COVID-19 on quality of life with PA intensity among college students. Participants: The sample included 1262 college students from a large Midwestern research university (mean age = 21.5 ± 3.6 years). Methods:…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Well Being, COVID-19, Pandemics
Meghan G. Blaskowitz; Paul Wesley Scott; Lindsay Randall; Macie Zelenko; Bridget M. Green; Erin McGrady; Elana Famularo; Megan Lonergan – Inclusion, 2020
This study measured quality of life (QOL) for transition-age youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and college youth without IDD. Transition-age youth with IDD (n = 19) and college youth without IDD (n = 30) were interviewed using the Quality of Life-Questionnaire (QOL-Q). One-way between-subjects analysis of variances…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Adolescents, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
Download full textDela-Rosa, Ronnell D.; Cleofas, Jerome V.; Oducado, Ryan Michael F. – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
The 2019 novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has increased the mental health challenges and decreased the quality of life among students and the general adult population. However, adult learners and non-traditional students who are currently at their quarter and midlife during the pandemic, remain underrepresented in well-being research.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Mental Health
Gungor, Abdi; Young, Mark E.; Sivo, Stephen A. – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2021
Negative life events are unpleasant, stressful, and uncontrollable experiences found to be risk factors for increased psychological distress and decreased life satisfaction in college students. In addition, distress and life satisfaction are closely related to college students' quality of life and academic performance. Conversely, positive…
Descriptors: Trauma, Experience, Psychological Patterns, Stress Variables
Mamak, Hüdaverdi – Journal of Education and Learning, 2019
The main purpose of this research is to examine the effect of athletes' self-talk over their life satisfaction. One hundred-sixteen females (age = 24.40 ± 3.65 year) and 200 males (age = 25.28 ± 3.47 year) voluntarily participated in this research. The sample of the research consists of athletes who were in different branches and have different…
Descriptors: Inner Speech (Subvocal), Athletes, Life Satisfaction, Quality of Life
Aktan, Osman; Orakci, Senol; Durnali, Mehmet – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2020
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between burnout, life satisfaction and quality of life in parents of disabled children and the mediating role of burnout in the relationship between life satisfaction and quality of life. Relational comparison, which is a quantitative research method, was used. The study sample consisted of…
Descriptors: Burnout, Life Satisfaction, Quality of Life, Parent Child Relationship
Sarwar, Farhan; Panatik, Siti Aisyah; Sukor, Mohammad Saipol Mohd; Rusbadrol, Noraini – SAGE Open, 2021
Using data from 450 public sector faculty members, a job demand-resource model of antecedents of satisfaction with work-family balance (balance satisfaction) was tested using PLS SEM. To understand the factors and processes that shape up balance satisfaction, the mediating variables in the model were psychological capital, work-to-family conflict,…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Life Satisfaction, Family Work Relationship, College Faculty
Matthew J. Salganik; Ian Lundberg; Alexander T. Kindel; Caitlin E. Ahearn; Khaled Al-Ghoneim; Abdullah Almaatouq; Drew M. Altschul; Jennie E. Brand; Nicole Bohme Carnegie; Ryan James Compton; Debanjan Datta; Thomas Davidson; Anna Filippova; Connor Gilroy; Brian J. Goode; Eaman Jahani; Ridhi Kashyap; Antje Kirchner; Stephen McKay; Allison C. Morgan; Alex Pentland; Kivan Polimis; Louis Raes; Daniel E. Rigobon; Claudia V. Roberts; Diana M. Stanescu; Yoshihiko Suhara; Adaner Usmani; Erik H. Wang; Muna Adem; Abdulla Alhajri; Bedoor AlShebli; Redwane Amin; Ryan B. Amos; Lisa P. Argyle; Livia Baer-Bositis; Moritz Büchi; Bo-Ryehn Chung; William Eggert; Gregory Faletto; Zhilin Fan; Jeremy Freese; Tejomay Gadgil; Josh Gagné; Yue Gao; Andrew Halpern-Manners; Sonia P. Hashim; Sonia Hausen; Guanhua He; Kimberly Higuera; Bernie Hogan; Ilana M. Horwitz; Lisa M. Hummel; Naman Jain; Kun Jin; David Jurgens; Patrick Kaminski; Areg Karapetyan; E. H. Kim; Ben Leizman; Naijia Liu; Malte Möser; Andrew E. Mack; Mayank Mahajan; Noah Mandell; Helge Marahrens; Diana Mercado-Garcia; Viola Mocz; Katariina Mueller-Gastell; Ahmed Musse; Qiankun Niu; William Nowak; Hamidreza Omidvar; Andrew Or; Karen Ouyang; Katy M. Pinto; Ethan Porter; Kristin E. Porter; Crystal Qian; Tamkinat Rauf; Anahit Sargsyan; Thomas Schaffner; Landon Schnabel; Bryan Schonfeld; Ben Sender; Jonathan D. Tang; Emma Tsurkov; Austin van Loon; Onur Varol; Xiafei Wang; Zhi Wang; Julia Wang; Flora Wang; Samantha Weissman; Kirstie Whitaker; Maria K. Wolters; Wei Lee Woon; James Wu; Catherine Wu; Kengran Yang; Jingwen Yin; Bingyu Zhao; Chenyun Zhu; Jeanne Brooks-Gunn; Barbara E. Engelhardt; Moritz Hardt; Dean Knox; Karen Levy; Arvind Narayanan; Brandon M. Stewart; Duncan J. Watts; Sara McLanahan – Grantee Submission, 2020
How predictable are life trajectories? We investigated this question with a scientific mass collaboration using the common task method; 160 teams built predictive models for six life outcomes using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a high-quality birth cohort study. Despite using a rich dataset and applying machine-learning…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Family Life, Quality of Life, Disadvantaged
Tan, Ling; Chen, Jinglu; Xia, Tiansheng; Hu, Jingchu – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2018
Background: Meaning in life has been depicted as an important psychological resource for both children and adults. Objective: The specific aims of this study were to quantify the rates and severity of suicidal ideation in a sample of 6165 Chinese children and adolescent students from a wide range of areas across China and to investigate whether…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Suicide, Mental Health Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Yaghmanian, Rana; Smedema, Susan Miller; Thompson, Kerry – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2017
Purpose: To evaluate Chan, Gelman, Ditchman, Kim, and Chiu's (2009) revised World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) model using core self-evaluations (CSE) to account for Personal Factors in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI). Method: One hundred eighty-seven adults with SCI were…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Injuries, Neurological Impairments, Adults
Leader, Geraldine; Grennan, Susan; Chen, June L.; Mannion, Arlene – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
Samson et al. ("Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders" 41:475-483, 2011) conducted the first empirical investigation examining the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) and its prevalence in individuals with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (hfASD). The present research examined gelotophobia in relation to social…
Descriptors: Fear, Interpersonal Competence, Life Satisfaction, Quality of Life
Kresak, Karen E.; Gallagher, Peggy A.; Kelley, Susan J. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2014
Sources of support and quality of life of 50 grandmother-headed families raising grandchildren with and without disabilities were examined. Comparative analyses revealed significant differences between grandmothers raising grandchildren with and without disabilities in regard to sources of support and family quality of life. Informal support was…
Descriptors: Grandparents, Females, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, Disabilities
Caron, Jean – Social Indicators Research, 2012
Most epidemiological studies agree that economically disadvantaged populations are the groups most vulnerable to mental health problems and report lower quality of life among these populations. However, it appears that access to social support plays a role in protecting against the chronic stress resulting from conditions such as poverty. This…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Economically Disadvantaged, Quality of Life, Mental Health
Gandelman, Nestor; Piani, Giorgina – Social Indicators Research, 2013
In this paper we use data from a population survey on quality of life dimensions conducted in Uruguay to analyze the self reported well-being among workers and non workers. Along with the literature, we find that the probability of being happy is greater for workers than non-workers. Specifically, we find evidence that workers tend to be more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Size, Family Characteristics, Life Satisfaction
Chow, Henry P. H. – Social Indicators Research, 2012
This study explored the health care service needs and the major correlates of quality of life among 127 community-dwelling elderly Chinese immigrants in a western Canadian city. Participants were interviewed in their homes by trained, bilingual interviewers employing a structured questionnaire that covered a wide range of topics including health…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Immigrants, Life Satisfaction
