Participants were eligible to complete this psychosocial questionnaire every 4 years. Response rates in each year varied from 62% to 85%. We restricted the respondents to those aged 65+, with complete data on hobby engagement and mental wellbeing outcomes in at least two waves and no missing ...
There is increasing international interest in the concept of mental well-being and its contribution to all aspects of human life. Demand for instruments to monitor mental well-being at a population level and evaluate mental health promotion initiatives is growing. This article describes the developmen...
Socioeconomic inequality, particularly in mental health and well-being, could be exacerbated via people’s economic concerns during the pandemic, which was largely induced by the COVID-19 containment measures rather than the pandemic per se given the relatively low COVID-19 incidence in Hong Kong...
The validated German “Comprehensive Inventory of Thriving” (CIT) was used to measure well-being [62]. The questionnaire includes 18 subscales with 54 items, which can be answered on a five-point scale ranging from “strongly disagree” (=1) to “strongly agree” (=5), covering a broad...
COVID-19 anxiety was negatively associated with well-being such that lower well-being that was indicative of possible or probable depression was associated with being anxious about COVID-19 more than half the time. Networking app use, non-physical sexual contact (defined in the questionnaire as ...
Accuracy of Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for screening to detect major depression: individual participant data meta-analysis. BMJ. 2019;365:l1476. doi:10.1136/bmj.l1476PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 28. Connor KM, Davidson JRT. Development of a new resilience scale: the...
7 The study found that winners of medium-sized lotteries had significantly better psychological health, as measured by the General Health Questionnaire,33 than the control groups. Although these studies possess the strengths of longitudinal design and large samples, they were limited by the use of ...
In addition, caffeine is assessed using questions adapted from the “Supplemental Beverage Questionnaire.” Questions used in the present study assess frequency and quantity of caffeinated or decaffeinated drinks consumed over the past 30 days. Credibility and perceived improvement: Perceptions of TranS-C...
Migrant's mental health was assessed using the well-tested Chinese version (Ye, 2009) of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) (Goldberg et al., 1998). The GHQ-12 is a psychometric screener of 12-items dealing with people's emotions and daily functioning, such as self-confidence and losin...
this study aims to explore the mediating role of resilience in the influence of father absence on gratitude and forgiveness.Methods:1951 participants completed the Revision of the Father Absence Questionnaire, the Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale, the Gratitude Questionnaire–6 and the Tendency to Forgi...