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The Effect Of Community Participation On Subjective Well-Being In Community Dwelling Elders, Elise English
The Effect Of Community Participation On Subjective Well-Being In Community Dwelling Elders, Elise English
Honors Projects
Relationships between health and life satisfaction, health and community participation, and community participation and life satisfaction are well documented in the literature. The current project investigates the confluence of these three variables, specifically whether community participation arbitrates the relationship between physical health challenges and life satisfaction. Using a sample of community dwelling elders from five counties in central Illinois, a mediation analysis assessed the interrelationships between each of the three variables; of particular interest was whether community participation arbitrated the relationship between physical health challenges and life satisfaction. A mediational model could not be tested because there is no statistical …
Financial Stress, Neighborhood Stress, And Well-Being: Mediational And Moderational Models, Amy Kapp
Financial Stress, Neighborhood Stress, And Well-Being: Mediational And Moderational Models, Amy Kapp
Honors Projects
This study explores how aspects of the community environment might facilitate the stress-and-coping process – specifically, the protective effects of social integration and high quality neighborhoods on psychological well-being. Previous research suggests that low levels of financial stress, lower neighborhood stress, and social integration are each associated with greater levels of well-being; few studies, however, investigate these contextual variables in conjunction with one another. Data from the Notre Dame Study of Health and Well-Being were used to investigate whether (1) neighborhood stress moderates the relationship between financial stress and psychological well-being and (2) social integration mediates the relationship between neighborhood …