The importance rating can be viewed as a determining factor in terms of quality of life, and it played a critical role in supporting attainment of, and satisfaction with, family quality of life, assuming opportunities, initiative and stability are adequate. The need for a broader sample including families that were not receiving services was noted. Future research questions based on the results of the current study and some of the dynamics impacting Malaysian society are also suggested.

The present study explores the subjective well-being of Malaysian children between 12 and 14 years of age. These children are beginning the transition from childhood to adulthood. They are confronted by a range of social and developmental influences that impact their self concept, self esteem, independence skills and their sense of their personal well-being. Responses on the Personal Wellbeing Index (School Children) were collected from over a thousand children in Form 1 and Form 2 grade levels drawn from a sample of ten schools in Ipoh, Malaysia. The results for the sample as a whole range from the lowest average score in "happiness with life achievement" at 68.1 up to a score of 80.7 on the "personal relationships" domain out of a total possible score of 100. Significant differences between the male and female participants were noted with males rating their subjective well-being as higher than the ratings by females on their "satisfaction with life as a whole" as well as their happiness with "personal safety". The younger students (Form 1 gradelevel) rated their happiness as significantly higher on the majority of life domains as compared to Form 2 students. There was also a significant difference between the students attending Chinese schools and those attending non-Chinese "National" schools. While those attending Chinese schools rated themselves substantially higher in regard to their happiness with "achievement in life", those in the other schools rated themselves higher on most of the other domains as well as significantly higher on "satisfaction with life as a whole". The strongest associations with "life as a whole" included "standard of living", "personal safety" and "future security".

The possibility of the production of ethanol by bacterial metabolism of blood glucose was investigated by studying a series of 26 hospital autopsies. The patients died from a wide variety of nontraumatic causes and the bodies were transported within 4 h of death to the morgue, where they were refrigerated for 0 to 28 h before samples of vitreous humor were collected for ethanol analysis. In addition, right heart blood was obtained using sterile technique for cultures as well as ethanol and glucose determinations. Ethanol was measured using gas-liquid chromatography, and glucose values were determined with a glucose oxidase method. In 13 cases, one to three species of microorganisms were isolated, but in no case was a blood or vitreous ethanol value greater than 10 mg/dL recorded. Ethanol values were also less than 10 mg/dL in the 13 cases with negative culture results. These data strongly suggest that de-novo production of ethanol by microbial metabolism does not occur in intact bodies which are refrigerated within 4 h of death. The detection of ethanol under such conditions is therefore probably indicative of antemortem consumption.

University can be a period of stress caused by academic, social, or personal demands. Yet most are able to rise above the adversity and grow from their experiences. Research on stress has found that a negative association exists with subjective well-being broadly conceptualized as life happiness (Denovan & Macaskill, 2017; Zhang, 2009). There are also positive relationships demonstrated between self-compassion and empathy with subjective well-being (Bluth et al., 2016; Thomas et al., 2007). This study examined the relationship between perceived stress and subjective well-being in a non-clinical university population. The study also examined the relationship between stress and subjective well-being, and how that relationship was moderated by the self-compassion and mediated by empathy.