Publication | |
Author(s) | Moon, J S.; Mikami, H. |
Title | Difference in subjective Well-being between ethnic Korean and Japanese elderly Residents in an Urban Community in Japan. |
Source | Geriatrics and Gerontology International, 2007, Vol. 7, 371 - 379 |
DOI | DOI:10.1111/j.1447-0594.2007.00427.x |
Investigation | |
Public | 65+aged, ethnic Korean naturalized as Japanese and Japanese, Japan, 2005 |
Collect period | 11/2004 |
Last collect period | 01/2005 |
Survey name | Unnamed study |
Sample | Non-probability purposive sample |
Respondents N = | 425 |
Japanese N=221, Korean N=204 | |
Non Response | 21.7% |
9.2% hospitalization, death or residential relocation, 11.6% declined to particpate in the survey, 5% gave invalid answers | |
Assesment | Questionnaire: paper |
Questionnaire delivered to respondents by the chairpersons of the neighborhood association or the investigator | |
Happiness measure(s) used |
Full text | Selfreport on single question: Write any number between 0 and 100 that describes your quality of life 100 perfect 95 90 85 80 75 70 65 60 55 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 might as well be dead |
Classification | O-QOL-u-sq-n-101-a |
Author's label | Life Satisfaction |
Page in publication | 376 |
Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
On original range 0 - 100 | On range 0 - 10 | |
Mean | 57.45 | 5.75 |
Standard deviation | 25.80 | 2.85 |
Author's label | Our subject description | |
Absence of "sense of purpose in life" | show | Current meaning of life |
Age | show | Current age (in years) |
Basic ADL | show | Degree of restriction |
Ethnicity | show | Ethnic status in specific nations |
GDS | show | Depressive (f31-33) |
Gender | show | Sex (male vs female) |
History of lifestyle-related disease | show | Health career |
Literacy | show | Literacy |
Living alone | show | Living alone or not |
Pension | show | Pension |
Public Assistance | show | Later source of income |
Total Variants | show | Socio-demographic + health + life-appraisals |