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The Prospects of Catching up for New EU Members Lessons for the Accession Countries to the European Union from Previous Enlargements

Delhey, Jan - In: Social Indicators Research 56 (2001) 2, pp. 205-231

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Validation of the Social Well-being Scale in a Chinese Sample and Invariance Across Gender

Li, Miaoyun; Yang, Dong; Ding, Cody; Kong, Feng - In: Social Indicators Research 121 (2015) 2, pp. 607-618

The goal of present study was to translate and validate the Social Well-being Scale (SWBS) with a Chinese sample, first developed by (Keyes in Social Psychology Quarterly 61(2):121–140, 1998). We examined the internal consistency, convergent validity and the measurement invariance across...

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A Danish Version of the Friendship Scale: Translation and Validation of a Brief Measure of Social Isolation

Kent, Peter; Hawthorne, Graeme; Kjaer, Per; Manniche, Claus - In: Social Indicators Research 120 (2015) 1, pp. 181-195

Low back pain (LBP) is common and social isolation is both a risk factor for poor recovery from LBP and a consequence of LBP. The Friendship Scale is a brief measure of social isolation that has been validated for use in the general population and in people with LBP. The aim of this study was to...

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Dimensionality and Validation of the Dispositional Hope Scale in a Spanish Sample

Galiana, Laura; Oliver, Amparo; Sancho, Patricia; … - In: Social Indicators Research 120 (2015) 1, pp. 297-308

Hope has emerged as a central construct when discussing human psychological strengths, well-being and quality of life … the first validation of the DHS in Spanish speaking population. Specifically, the aim is to systematically test for the … study offers the first presentation and validation of a Spanish version of the DHS, offering evidence of adequate …

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Development and Validation of an Environmental Quality of Life Scale: Study of a French Sample

Fleury-Bahi, Ghozlane; Marcouyeux, Aurore; Préau, Marie; … - In: Social Indicators Research 113 (2013) 3, pp. 903-913

The objective of this research is to develop a scale of perceived environmental quality of life and test its factorial … quality of life factors were isolated in an exploratory study carried out with 760 participants. This factorial structure was … then established in a cross-validation of the scale during a confirmatory study applied to a second sample of 740 …

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A Comparative Analysis of the Validity of US State- and County-Level Social Capital Measures and Their Associations with Population Health

Lee, Chul-Joo; Kim, Daniel - In: Social Indicators Research 111 (2013) 1, pp. 307-326

The goals of this study were to validate a number of available collective social capital measures at the US state and county levels, and to examine the relative extent to which these social capital measures are associated with population health outcomes. Measures of social capital at the US...

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Subjective Vitality of Lebanese Adults in Lebanon: Validation of the Arabic Version of the Subjective Vitality Scale

Fayad, Yasmine; Kazarian, Shahe - In: Social Indicators Research 114 (2013) 2, pp. 465-478

Subjective vitality is an indicator of eudaimonic well-being that refers to the feeling of being alive and full of energy. According to Self-Determination Theory (SDT), awareness of what is truly occurring in the present is conducive to subjective vitality. The current study examined the...

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Reliability and Validity of an Adapted Version of the Cantril Ladder for Use with Adolescent Samples

Levin, K.; Currie, C. - In: Social Indicators Research 119 (2014) 2, pp. 1047-1063

There are a number of measures of life satisfaction for use with adolescent samples. The adapted Cantril Ladder is one such measure. This has been collected by the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study in HBSC member countries across Europe and North America for several survey...

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Development and Validation of the Older Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (O-PACIC) Scale After Hospitalization

Cramm, Jane; Nieboer, Anna - In: Social Indicators Research 116 (2014) 3, pp. 959-969

Objectives of this study were to develop and validate an instrument to assess older patients’ experiences with integrated care delivery after hospitalization. Our study was conducted among older individuals (≥65) who had recently been discharged from a hospital. At T1, 3 months after...

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Psychometric Evaluation of the Tagalog and German Subjective Happiness Scales and a Cross-Cultural Comparison

Swami, Viren; Stieger, Stefan; Voracek, Martin; … - In: Social Indicators Research 93 (2009) 2, pp. 393-406

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