A Cross-Cultural Evaluation of the Personal Wellbeing Index – School Children in Samples of Australian and Portuguese Adolescents

Tomyn, Adrian J.; Tamir, Elli; Stokes, Mark A.; Dias, Paulo C.

doi:10.1007/s11482-015-9400-4

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“…Although SWB has a rich, comparative cross-national research tradition, some cultural differences are noted (e.g., Kjell, Nima, Sikström, Archer, & Garcia, 2013; Tian, Chen, & Huebner, 2014; Tomyn, Tamir, Stokes, & Dias, 2016). European American cultures tend to emphasize SWB emerging from personal success (as in the Accomplishment component of Seligman’s [2011] PERM A model); whereas Asian cultures give more salience to SWB’s social harmony aspects (Uchida, Norasakkunkit, & Kitayama, 2004; as in the Meaning component of Seligman’s PERMA model).…”

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Social and Emotional Psychological Factors Associated With Subjective Well-Being: A Comparison of Turkish and California Adolescents

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Furlong

2017

Cross-Cultural Research

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This study examined the relations between core psychological self-schemas and the subjective well-being (SWB) of Turkish and California (United States) adolescents. The participants were 2,242 high school students (1,123 from Turkey and 1,119 from California). Core psychological self-schemas were measured with the Social and Emotional Health Survey-Secondary (SEHS-S) and SWB was measured by the combination of the Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (SLSS; cognitive component) and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule for Children (PANAS-C; affective component). Significant, small effect size differences were found for self-awareness, persistence, family coherence, and behavioral self-control, favoring the Turkish adolescents, and for school support, empathy, and SWB, favoring the California adolescents. Positive associations were found between the social and emotional health self-schemas and SWB for adolescents in both cultures. Multiple regression analyses indicated that self-efficacy, self-awareness, family coherence, and

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Social and Emotional Psychological Factors Associated With Subjective Well-Being: A Comparison of Turkish and California Adolescents

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Furlong

2017

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“…Similarly, a cross-cultural comparative study including 23 countries using the BMSLSS (Abubakar et al, 2015) with a sample of adolescents and emerging adults found appropriate structural validity but cautioned against mean comparisons across cultures. Further crosscultural comparative studies between: Spanish and Algerian children (Casas et al, 2014), Spanish and Romanian adolescents (Casas, Bălțătescu, et al, 2013), Spanish, Chilean, and Brazilian adolescents (Casas et al, 2012), and Australian and Portu-guese adolescents (Tomyn, Tamir, Stokes, & Dias, 2015), demonstrate appropriate structural validity and crosscultural comparability of a range of SWB instruments across diverse cultures. More recently, Casas (2016) has pointed to the importance of including multiple scales with items of different levels of abstraction when investigating children's SWB.…”

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Children's subjective well-being in Africa: A comparative analysis across three countries

Savahl

Tiliouine

Casas

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Children and Youth Services Review

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Recent trends in child well-being research have shown a substantial advancement in studies investigating children's subjective well-being (SWB). This advancement has raised questions concerning the measurement of SWB and the extent to which various measures can be compared across countries and diverse cultures. With a dearth of empirical data on cross-cultural comparisons, the validation of existing measures and cross-cultural comparisons and adaptations, have been identified as a critical course of action. The current study contributes to this process-it aims to report on children's SWB in three African countries (Algeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa), using two multiple item measures of SWB (the context-free Students' Life Satisfaction Scale and the domain-specific Personal Well-Being Index-School Children). Within this process the study further aims to test the structural validity of these measures and to ascertain its crosscountry comparability. Data from the second wave of the Children's Worlds survey were used; and includes a randomly selected sample of 3394 children between the ages of 11-12 from Algeria (Provinces of El Bayedh, Oran, and Tlemcen), Ethiopia and South Africa (Western Cape Province). Located within the goodness of fit theoretical framework, confirmatory factor analysis and Structural Equation Modelling were used to test the overall fit structure, while multi-group confirmatory factor analysis was used to test measurement invariance. The results show appropriate fit structure for the individual models, with metric and scalar factor invariance tenable across the three countries for the Students' Life Satisfaction Scale and partial scalar invariance obtained for four items on the Personal Well-Being Index-School Children. The Algerian sample scored significantly higher than Ethiopia and South Africa on both SWB measures. Appropriate fit structure was obtained for the combined model and for the structural model, indicating adequate convergent validity with the single item Overall Life Satisfaction. Metric and partial scalar invariance was tenable for the structural model, suggesting crosscountry comparability for correlations, regressions and means. The overall findings suggest that the two measures are appropriate for use with children from the three countries and that meaningful comparisons can be made between the three countries.

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“…The PWI was designed as a transculturally valid measure, has been translated into different languages, and has been validated and used in multiple studies (Cummins and Theofilou 2013). Just to refer to some of the more recent publications in this regard, the PWI has been used with data from the general Indian population (McIntyre et al 2019 first online), from Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia (Jovanović et al 2019), and from the child population (Tomyn et al 2016). It has been validated in Spain and for the older adult population by Forjaz et al (2012), Rodriguez-Blazquez et al (2011), andRojo-Perez et al (2012).…”

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Active Ageing and Personal Wellbeing Among Older Adults in Spain

Rojo-Pérez¹,

Fernández-Mayoralas

Rodríguez-Rodríguez³

2020

Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research

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This essay offers a summary of personal wellbeing and describes its relationship with sociodemographic parameters and other relevant quality of life (QoL) domains, as well as its association with Active Ageing (AA). Based on a positive and holistic viewpoint, AA is constructed around four pillars (health, lifelong learning, participation, and security) and interacting determinants that indicate whether a person is experiencing an AA with good QoL (WHO 2002; ILC-BR 2015). In this paradigm, QoL is structured as an outcome measure of AA. Based on the seminal conceptualization of AA, the Active Ageing Index (AAI) has been designed to identify the level of AA in Europe (Zaidi et al. 2013). As an indicator of QoL, the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) has been developed to evaluate subjective wellbeing in its global and domain-specific contexts (IWG 2013). Other qualitative sources are used in this essay to analyze the lay perspective of the relationship between the two constructs, AA and QoL. DescriptionMethods Used to Research on Active Ageing and Quality of Life Among Older Persons in Spain Essential contemporary social research strategies include cross-sectional and longitudinal studies, objective and subjective measures, and a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. The use of validated and comparable scales and instruments is one of the outstanding challenges in

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A Cross-Cultural Evaluation of the Personal Wellbeing Index – School Children in Samples of Australian and Portuguese Adolescents

Cited by 12 publications

References 37 publications

Social and Emotional Psychological Factors Associated With Subjective Well-Being: A Comparison of Turkish and California Adolescents

Social and Emotional Psychological Factors Associated With Subjective Well-Being: A Comparison of Turkish and California Adolescents

Children's subjective well-being in Africa: A comparative analysis across three countries

Active Ageing and Personal Wellbeing Among Older Adults in Spain

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