Monitoring Social Well-Being in Iran

Hashemi, Fariba Mirbaha; Pourmalek, Farshad; Tehrani, Arash; Abachizadeh, Kambiz; Memaryan, Nadereh; Hazar, Narjes; Omidnia, Soheila; Ziari, Abbas; Moradi‐Lakeh, Maziar

doi:10.1007/s11205-015-1087-2

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“…Few empirical studies have examined teacher wellbeing as a unified set of the above four dimensions. For example, Mirbaha Hashemi et al (2016) explored social wellbeing in Iran and developed a corresponding measuring tool. Ni et al (2019) conducted a longitudinal environment-wide association study to examine physical, mental, and social wellbeing systematically and simultaneously.…”

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Exploring teacher wellbeing in educational reforms: a Chinese perspective

Ao,

Zhang,

Tian

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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Teaching is a demanding profession and maintaining teacher wellbeing is significant in ensuring educational quality. However, teacher wellbeing is easily affected by educational reforms, and systematic research on this topic is still relatively rare. In China, with the enactment of the Double Reduction Policy in 2021, the job characteristics of primary and secondary school teachers have undergone various changes. Thus, the current study examined the new job characteristics that China’s Double Reduction Policy imposed on the wellbeing of school teachers and their relationships with teachers’ inner world (i.e., emotional regulation and mindset). A cross-sectional study was carried out from June to October 2022 across China, employing self-reporting questionnaires for data collection and analysis. With a random sample of 902 teachers, we investigated the associations between teacher wellbeing, job characteristics, emotional regulation strategies, and mindset. The results indicated that teachers showed a lower level of wellbeing after the educational reform. Higher job resources contributed positively to predicting teacher wellbeing, while higher job demands contributed negatively. Genuinely expressing had positive impacts on teacher wellbeing while surface acting had negative impacts and deep acting none. Mindset was found to affect emotional regulation strategies and teacher wellbeing simultaneously. These findings shed light on how teachers can appropriately regulate emotions and maintain wellbeing in the wake of educational reforms.

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Exploring teacher wellbeing in educational reforms: a Chinese perspective

Ao,

Zhang,

Tian

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…Quality of life (QoL) is a complex, multifaceted construct based on different theories [ 1 ]. From both objective circumstances and subjective evaluations of different life domains: physical, emotional, social, environmental, and material [ 2 ]. Given this complexity, there is often a little consensus on a single way to conceptualize and measure QoL [ 3 ].…”

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Determinants of Subjective Loneliness and Quality of Life among Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Gorgan, Iran

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The purpose of this study was to identify the determinants of, and relationship between, subjective loneliness, general health and quality of life (QoL) among lonely community-dwelling older adults. A cross-sectional study was carried out among a sample of lonely (i.e. live alone without any assistance) older adults living in Gorgan city, Iran. The older adults were invited through a census sampling technique to complete six questionnaires, namely a 20-item UCLA loneliness scale, a six-item Lubben Social Network Scale, a 12-item Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, a 17-item Self-care Ability Scale for the Elderly (SASE), a General Health Questionnaire-12, and a Control, Autonomy, Self-Realization and Pleasure (CASP-19) questionnaire. Hierarchical multiple linear regressions were done with subjective loneliness and QoL as outcome variables. In total, 213 (91% females) lonely older adults (mean age: 68.2 ± 6.2) participated. Hierarchical multiple linear regressions yield socio-demographic characteristics ( p < 0.001), predictor group 1 ( p < 0.001), predictor group 2 ( p < 0.001) explained 12.5, 13.5 and 46.6% of the observed variance in loneliness, respectively. Moreover, socio-demographic characteristics ( p < 0.001), predictor group 1 ( p < 0.001), predictor group 2 ( p < 0.001) and feeling of loneliness ( p < 0.001) accounted for 16.9, 21.1, 48.6 and 55.3% of the observed variance in quality of life, respectively. Both subjective loneliness and QoL were moderate in our sample. We suggest the presence of a probable causal inference between subjective loneliness, general health, and QoL; implying the need of population strategies for correcting subjective loneliness for its own sake as well as to help have an improved general health and QoL among older adults. Beside several non-modifiable factors (such as age, ethnic groups), we suggest that corrective measures should be based on social support and networking, self-care behavior, leisure activities, adapted for age, literacy and racial specifications. Given its population health relevance, there should be increased research and intervention on loneliness among older adults.

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“…Foreign studies open up a wide range for measuring social well-being, as they are presented in quite detailed and well-developed methods, including methods for analyzing and interpreting research results. The methods of Cоrey Lee M. Keyes, a group of Iranian researchers, as well as the Ukrainian method of IISS-44 by E. Golovakha and N. Panina [6,7,8] are most fully described.…”

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Analysis of the social well-being of urban citizens: gender aspect in the conditions of digital transformation

Anufrieva¹,

Borodina²,

KAZANOVA³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Practical Conference "The Individual and Society in the Modern Geopolitical Env

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The article discusses the social well-being of the residents of Volgograd based on the data of empirical studies of recent years. Social well-being is defined by the authors as an integral characteristic of a person who is self-aware and has an idea of the degree of his emotional, psychological, social comfort in society, by correlating his activities, lifestyle, goals with values, norms, traditions, social processes, dynamics of social development generally. Estimates of social well-being by of Volgograd citizens are lower than in neighboring regions and the country as a whole. In survey, citizens showed the lowkey expectations of macro-social changes and the critical attitude to the economic situation in the country. At the same time, Volgograd citizens value of family, health, work, housing, clothing, the ability to buy food, friends, close people, their support, the ability to educate children. It is that values help Volgograd citizens to define their state of social health as positive. If the population of women is more than men in Volgograd, it is interesting to use a gender approach to understand the social well-being of urban citizens. In the article, the research results correlate with the ongoing digital transformation, as instability and/or high rate of changes in the technologies.

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Monitoring Social Well-Being in Iran

Cited by 11 publications

References 10 publications

Exploring teacher wellbeing in educational reforms: a Chinese perspective

Exploring teacher wellbeing in educational reforms: a Chinese perspective

Determinants of Subjective Loneliness and Quality of Life among Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Gorgan, Iran

Analysis of the social well-being of urban citizens: gender aspect in the conditions of digital transformation

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