Subjective well-being of elderly women: conceptual differences between cancer patients, women suffering from chronic ailments and healthy women.
Br J Clin Psychol
; 34(2): 289-300, 1995 05.
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| ID: mdl-7647720
ABSTRACT
Studies have shown that the mean scores on global subjective well-being measures of cancer patients do not differ from the mean scores of other patient samples or samples of healthy individuals. These results give rise to speculations about the nature of the concept subjective well-being. Therefore, we compared the structure of the concept subjective well-being between three groups of elderly women (cancer patients, women suffering from chronic ailments and healthy women). This was done by examining the relationships between five dimensions of subjective well-being (perceived physical health, self-esteem, negative affect, optimism and loneliness) and two measures of global subjective well-being (affective well-being and life satisfaction) in each group of women. The results clearly demonstrate the differences in the relative importance of the five dimensions for the global evaluation of well-being between the three groups. The most notable finding was that perceived physical health appears to be more strongly related to global subjective well-being, when the objective health status is worse. The unequal relative importance of dimensions of subjective well-being should be taken into account when comparing the mean scores on subjective well-being measures between populations with different states of health.
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01-internacional
Contexto em Saúde:
1_ASSA2030
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Qualidade de Vida
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Neoplasias da Mama
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Idoso
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Neoplasias Colorretais
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Doença Crônica
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Saúde da Mulher
Tipo de estudo:
Qualitative_research
Aspecto:
Patient_preference
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Br J Clin Psychol
Ano de publicação:
1995
Tipo de documento:
Article