Search results for "Satisfaction"

Stresa pārvarēšanas stratēģiju saistība ar apmierinatību pāra attiecībās

2015

Pētījuma mērķis bija noskaidrot saistības starp stresa pārvarēšanas stratēģijām un pāru apmierinātību ar attiecībām. Darbā tika izmantota latviešu valodā adaptētā “Stresa pārvarēšanas stratēģiju aptaujas dispozicionālā versija”, “Laulāto attiecību apmierinātības rādītājs”, kā arī paplašinātā demogrāfisko datu aptauja, kura ietver jautājumus par dzimumu, vecumu, nodarbošanos, attiecību ilgumu, bērnu skaitu un to vecumu. Pētījumā piedalījās 103 respondenti no tiem 61 sieviete un 42 vīrieši, vecumā no 25 līdz 40 gadiem. Visu respondentu attiecību ilgums bija no 2 līdz 6 gadiem. Pētījuma rezultāti parādīja, ka: 1) Pastāv statistiski nozīmīga korelāciju atšķirība vīriešu un sieviešu grupā starp …

Investigating Some Construct Validity Threats to TALIS 2018 Teacher Job Satisfaction Scale: Implications for Social Science Researchers and Practitio…

2020

The credibility of findings ensuing from cross-sectional survey research depends largely on the validity and reliability of the research instruments. Critical attention to the quality of such instruments will ensure logical and valid results. The purpose of this article is to provide evidence for two methodological issues observed that are potential threats to construct validity of widely used Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2018 data on teacher job satisfaction scale (TJSS). The first issue concerns reverse recoding of some items necessary to obtain a coherence covariance between these items and other items on the same subscale. The second issue concerns the addition of …

Exploring Subjective Well-Being: Insights for researchers and practitioners

This dissertation aims at improving our knowledge about Subjective Well-Being (either in theory and in practice) by addressing the crucial question of which mechanisms explain people’s sense of well-being. We support the general hypothesis that while economic growth plays an essential role in increasing people’s life standards, the subjective well-being is in part explained by noneconomic factors.These include individual psychological traits, generalised levels of trust, social support and involvement in social activities. The results of this thesis, may serve as a reference point for educators, researchers, policy-makers, and all those working in the field.

Precursors of Body Dissatisfaction and its Implication for Psychological Well-Being in Young Adults

2019

The authors examined leisure-time physical activity (LTPA), body mass index (BMI), and perceived physical ability as body dissatisfaction antecedents, and analyzed their relationship to well-being. The sample comprised 501 university students. Data were collected using a self-administered survey. Path analysis revealed that LTPA positively predicted perceived physical ability. BMI and perceived physical ability predicted body dissatisfaction (positively and negatively, respectively). Body dissatisfaction negatively predicted subjective vitality, whereas perceived physical ability positively predicted subjective vitality. These results support the inclusion of LTPA in intervention programs t…

EFICACIA DE UN PROGRAMA DE INTERVENCIÓN PARA MEJORAR LA COMPETENCIA, AUTONOMÍA Y BIENESTAR DE EDUCADORES DE CENTROS DE PROTECCIÓN DE MENORES

2010

En este estudio cuasi-experimental pre-test post-test sin grupo control, se analizaron los efectos de un programa de intervencion, cuyo objetivo fue mejorar el bienestar de los educadores a traves de la satisfaccion de las necesidades de competencia y de autonomia. Participaron 55 educadores, 24 hombres y 31 mujeres (M edad = 33,6; DT = 8,1) que trabajaban en Centros de Proteccion de Menores de la Comunidad Valenciana. Los resultados mostraron un cambio significativo en todas las variables en la direccion esperada. Ademas, informaron que los cambios en la satisfaccion de las necesidades de competencia y autonomia produjeron cambios en la autoestima; mientras que las variaciones en la vitali…

Predictive variables of happiness in private sports centres

2018

The psychological investigation of happiness has increased significantly in recent decades to the point of becoming one of the most researched behaviours in the new field of Positive Psychology. However, relatively little progress has been made in happiness research and tests to evaluate happiness, and the Oxford Happiness Inventory (OHI), built by Argyle, Martin and Crossland (1989), is among the best-known and most accredited. Happiness has represented a challenging and frustrating quest for humanity, as there is no consensus on its definition. Bearing in mind that there are many ambiguous factors that can affect the happiness of the individual, this study focuses on analysing the variabl…

Qualitative Studies of Young People’s Quality of Life in Urban and Rural Areas

2015

The chapter presents a qualitative research conducted with young people from different communities: rural and urban. We sought to recognize and define dimensions that promote life satisfaction in the community, young people perceived in these two geographical areas. While the quality of life refers to both social welfare and psychological well-being, qualitative studies are particularly focused on the latter, as they facilitate the discovery of feelings, perceptions, opinions and emotions about the reality of their quality of life, being these that constitute the research itself, so that subjectivity and inter subjectivity in qualitative methodology is conceived as the ultimate means and to…

Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Temporal Satisfaction with Life Scale (TSLS): A study on elderly attending to university progra…

2015

Several measures have been developed for the operalization of well-being, standing out the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS). To cope with some of its problems the Temporal Satisfaction with Life Scale (TSLS) was developed. The aim of this study is to present and validate the Spanish version of the TSLS, in a sample elderly attending to University programs. The sample was composed of 737 elderly. Together with the TSLS, an indicator of general life satisfaction and the SF-8 Health Scale were used. Analyses included the study of factorial validity, estimations of reliability and external validity. Results of the confirmatory factor analysis were adequate: χ2(87)=454.593 (p<.001), CFI=.9…

Validation of an explicative model of the successful aging process with psychological, physical, relational, and leisure variables

2015

Increasingly, research on the aging process tends to adopt a dual perspective emic (specific to a culture) and etic (universal), requiring further studies to address this cross-cultural approach. The aim is to obtain an empirical answer to the question of whether a model of successful aging raised from a different context such as the Taiwanese context, is suitable to represent this process in our elders. The sample consisted of 737 elderly. Socio-demographic-data and different scales to assess life satisfaction, leisure, health, and social support were collected. A structural equation model taken from Lee et al. (2011), in which leisure, health and social support predicted life satisfaction…

Change in Newcomers' Supervisor Support and Socialization Outcomes After Organizational Entry

2009

Using a four-wave longitudinal research design and a latent growth modeling approach, we modeled change in newcomers' perceived supervisor support and socialization outcomes (role clarity, work mas...