Quality of life in Thailand

Leelakulthanit, Orose; Day, Ralph L.

doi:10.1007/bf00300509

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“…This finding supported the results of an earlier study that found that marital quality played an important role in psychological health (Barnett et al, 1994). On the other hand, Lellakulthaanit & Day (1992), Lewinsohn et al (1991), and Ying (1992) failed to identify an association between adjustment and marital status.…”

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Relationships, sexuality and adjustment among people with physical disability

Taleporos

McCabe

2003

Sexual and Relationship Therapy

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The current study investigated the association between relationship status and the psychological adjustment, sexual esteem and sexual behaviour of people with and without physical disability. A total of 11 96 participants completed the study, 748 participants (367 men, 381 women) had a physical disability and 448 participants (1 71 men, 277 women) were able-bodied. The age range of participants was 18 to 69 years, with a mean age of 36.39 years (SD = 10.41). The results demonstrated that physical disability and its severity were related to an increased likelihood of being single. Men with physical disabilities were more likely than women to be single. In terms of psychological adjustment, single people with physical disabilities were more depressed than those who had a partner they did not live with. However, they were not signz3cantly disadvantaged in this area when compared to mam'ed people and those in de facto relationships. Relationship status was strongly related to sexual wellbeing in people with and without physical disability, with single people reporting lower levels of sexual satisfaction and sexual esteem as well as less frequent mutual sexual activity. However, married people with physical disabilities reported lower levels of sexual wellbeing than the people who had partners they did not live with. This suggests that among couples where a partner has a physical disability, marriage and live-in relationships may add burdens that do not exist in more casual relationships.

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Relationships, sexuality and adjustment among people with physical disability

Taleporos

McCabe

2003

Sexual and Relationship Therapy

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“…various aspects of their lives. Although it has been persistently expressed in the literature that variables such as income, level of schooling and job status rarely explain more than 12% of the variance of quality of life (Andrews and Withey, 1976;Campbell et al, 1976;Headey, 1981;Davis et al, 1982;Abbey and Andrews, 1985;Michalos, 1985;Leelakulthanit and Day, 1992), it was demonstrated in the current study that poverty explains approximately 29.16% of the variance of subjective well-being. In other words, poor individuals reflect lower levels of satisfaction in various areas of their lives in comparison to individuals with higher income.…”

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Poverty, Psychological Resources And Subjective Well-Being

2005

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“…However, neither did SWLS or PANAS scores, showing the finding was not unique to the GPGI measure. It is unknown why this is, however similar results were found in other studies in Thailand (Leelakulthanit and Day 1990;Camfield and Ruta 2007). One possibility is that this hypothesis is based on "Western" research literature, highlighting the difficulties of deriving culturally-appropriate construct validity hypotheses when designing validation research.…”

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Reliability and Validity of the Thai “Global Person Generated Index”, an Individualised Measure of Quality of Life

Martin

Rodham

Camfield

et al. 2010

Applied Research Quality Life

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The "Global Person Generated Index" (GPGI) is an individualised measure of global quality of life (QoL). Individualised measures have been used within a health context, however until recently have been rarely used to explore global QoL. This paper establishes the GPGI's validity and reliability in Thailand. Data were collected from participants in two sites in Northeast Thailand. Participants completed the Thai GPGI, the "Satisfaction with Life Scale"(SWLS), a modified "Positive and Negative Affect Scale" (PANAS) and provided demographic data. 81 participants provided data at T1. 70 participants completed data for test-retest (two week interval) reliability comparisons. Test-retest reliability correlation was 0.678 (p<0.001) for participants reporting no change in QoL. GPGI correlated moderately with SWLS (0.381, p<0.01) and PANAS scales (0.291 and −0.378, both p<0.01), indicating validity. GPGI scores were related to health and correlated to a moderate degree with income (0.379, p<0.05). GPGI scores did not show the expected differences in scores based on gender, although this may be owing to cultural issues. Areas

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Quality of life in Thailand

Cited by 19 publications

References 4 publications

Relationships, sexuality and adjustment among people with physical disability

Relationships, sexuality and adjustment among people with physical disability

Poverty, Psychological Resources And Subjective Well-Being

Reliability and Validity of the Thai “Global Person Generated Index”, an Individualised Measure of Quality of Life

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