Study Chow (2012): study CA Calgary, Alberta 2007

Public

65+aged Chinese migrants, Calgary, Canada, 2007

Survey name

Unnamed study

Sample

Respondents

N = 127

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face
Interviews were conducted at immigrants' place of residence by trained, bilingual interviewers employing a structured questionnaire .These interviews were conducted in English or a Chinese dialect (e.g., Cantonese, Mandarin, or Taishanese) spoken by the participants. The average length of the interviews was 30 min, with a range from 20 min to nearly an hour.

Correlate

Authors's Label

Psychological well-being

Our Classification

Error Estimates

Cronbach's alpha .72

Remarks

The coding for the psychological wellbeing items was reversed so that a higher mean value would reflect better psychological well-being.

Distribution

1: M=3.04, SD=1.38
2: M=3.78, SD=1.11
3: M=3.93, SD=1.09
4: M=3.07, SD=1.39
5: M=3.71, SD=1.32

Operationalization

Psychological well-being operationalized as the respondents' degree of agreement to the following statements:
1: I am often bored
2: I feel that life is worth living
3: I am happy most of the time
4: I feel lonely most of the time
5: I feel hopeless about the future
Rated:
1: strongly disagree
2:
3:
4:
5: strongly agree

Observed Relation with Happiness