| Publication |
| Author(s) | Ajrouch, |
| Title | Resources and Well-being among Arab-American elders |
| Source | Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, (2007), 22: 167-182 |
| DOI | doi: 10/1007/10823-006-9033-z |
| Investigation |
| Public | 56+aged, Arab-Americans, USA, 2001-2002 |
| | Arab-American refers to those individuals whose ancestors arrived from an Arab speaking country, which include 22 nations in North Africa and West Asia. |
| Collect period | November 2001 |
| Last collect period | Spring 2002 |
| Survey name | Unnamed study |
| Sample | Non-probability snowball sample |
| | Respondents were accessed primarily through religious institutions. |
| Respondents N = | 101 |
| | Lebanese 57%, Syrian 19%, Iraqi 10% |
| Non Response | Not available |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| | Based on language preference, two-thirds of the interviews were conducted in English and one-third in Arabic by a native Arabic-speaking bi-lingual interviewer. Interviews occurred at the participants' homes and lasted for approximately an hour. |
| General remarks | Interviews started after 9/11 terrorist assaults in the US by Arab Islamists |
| Happiness measure(s) used |
| Author's label | Subject Code
Finding | Subject description |
| Age | A04ab | Current age (in years) |
| Bilingual | L01aa03 | Later language |
| Bilingual | L01ab01 | Number of languages spoken, also classified as above ↑ |
| Confide-Child | S10ab | Current social support received |
| Confide-Child | S10ab03 | Kind of social support received, also classified as above ↑ |
| Confide-Spouse | S10ab03 | Kind of social support received |
| Confide-Spouse | M04ad01 | Support by spouse, also classified as above ↑ |
| Demands-Child | C05ac | Attitude to relation with one's children |
| Demands-Spouse | M04ad | Current behaviors of spouse |
| Education | E01ab01 | Years schooling |
| English fluency | L01ab | Current language |
| Financial-Child | S10ab | Current social support received |
| Financial-Child | S10ab03 | Kind of social support received, also classified as above ↑ |
| Financial-Spouse | S10ab03 | Kind of social support received |
| Financial-Spouse | M04ad01 | Support by spouse, also classified as above ↑ |
| Gender | G01aa | Sex (male vs female) |
| Income | I01ab03 | Household income |
| Muslim | R12ac | Current religious denomination |
| Negative Feelings | M15ac04b | Feeling down (vs not) |
| Negative Feelings | M15aa03 | Later mood-pattern, also classified as above ↑ |
| Nerves-Child | C05ac | Attitude to relation with one's children |
| Nerves-Child | C01ad01 | Attitudes to one's own children, also classified as above ↑ |
| Nerves-Spouse | S10ac | Attitudes to social support received |
| Sick Care-Child | S10ab | Current social support received |
| Sick Care-Child | S10ab03 | Kind of social support received, also classified as above ↑ |
| Sick Care-Spouse | S10ab03 | Kind of social support received |
| Sick Care-Spouse | M04ad01 | Support by spouse, also classified as above ↑ |
| Total Variants | S15ab08 | Socio-demographic + social ties |
| Total Variants | S15ab01 | Socio-demographic factors only, also classified as above ↑ |
| US born | L08aa | Earlier life (antecedents of happiness) |
| US born | M07aa01 | Ever migrated or not, also classified as above ↑ |
| ?30 years in US | N10aa | Nationality career |
| ?30 years in US | M07aa02 | Time since migration, also classified as above ↑ |