Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Objective well-being'

This study aims to describe the quality of life of Turkey in comparison with the European Union Member States including the other candidate countries Bulgaria and Romania. The main question in the study is to determine where Turkey stands in terms of quality of life domains in the membership process to the European Union. For this aim, &ldquo<br>The European Quality of Life Survey&rdquo<br>that has been launched in 2003 including 28 countries in Europe has been used. The survey consists of eight life domains including different objective and subjective indicators to measure the quality of life in these countries. The findings revealed that although Turkey displays similar patterns with the other candidate countries, it lags behind the European Union Member States in most of these eight quality of life domains.

Les différents travaux développés dans cette Thèse visent à fournir une meilleure compréhension des déterminants de la pauvreté et du bien-être dans les pays en développement. Ce faisant, ils permettent de suggérer plusieurs pistes permettant d’atteindre les deux premiers objectifs du Programme de Développement Durable à l’horizon 2030 élaboré par les Nations Unies. En partant de données macroéconomiques, et en approfondissant notre analyse à l’aide de données au niveau des ménages, cette Thèse explore les types de privations sociales qui caractérisent la pauvreté, ainsi que les principaux facteurs influençant certaines de ces privations telles que la santé nutritionnelle des enfants. La Thèse débute par une étude macroéconomique couvrant 64 pays en développement, se poursuit par une analyse reposant sur des données d’enquête relatives au Guatemala, et se termine par une évaluation de l’impact d’un programme de santé mis en œuvre par la Fondation FUNDAP dans les régions occidentales du même pays en utilisant des données individuelles plus spécifiques. Plus précisément, le premier Chapitre analyse la relation entre aide au développement et réduction de la pauvreté, un sujet sur lequel les études existantes n’ont pas débouché jusqu’à présent sur des résultats tranchés. Le Chapitre 2 vise à comprendre et à évaluer dans quelle mesure le développement de la production d’huile de palme au Guatemala (secteur agro-exportateur) contribue à accroître l'insécurité alimentaire, mesurée ici par une plus forte dénutrition observée chez les enfants. La dernière étude développée dans le troisième et dernier Chapitre cherche à évaluer les incidences de la mise en place d’un programme nutritionnel dans l’Ouest du Guatemala, appelé « Volontaires en Santé », qui opère au niveau des communautés et vise à renforcer les capacités des individus (90% de femmes) en leur donnant une formation ciblée sur la nutrition des enfants et les soins médicaux de base<br>The research developed in this Thesis seeks to provide greater understanding on the determinants of poverty and well-being in developing countries and, by doing so, to highlight several paths to achieve the two first Sustainable Development Goals of the Agenda 2030. Starting with national data, to deepen the analysis using individual and household level data, this Thesis explores the types of social deprivations that characterize poverty and the factors that have a significant impact on some of them such as the nutritional health of children. It begins with a macroeconomic analysis for 64 developing economies, to continue with an analysis based on survey data for Guatemala, and finalizes with an impact evaluation using more specific individual data from a health program implemented by the Foundation FUNDAP in the western regions of the same country. More precisely, Chapter 1 analyses the relationship between development aid and poverty reduction, a topic for which previous studies have not yet produced conclusive results. Chapter 2 aims to understand and evaluate to what extent the expansion of african palm crop in Guatemala (agro-export sector) contributes to increasing food insecurity, as measured by higher child undernutrition. The last study presented in Chapter 3, seeks to evaluate the impact of a nutritional intervention in West Guatemala, called « Volunteers in Health », which operates at the community level and builds capacity by training individuals (90% women) on issues related to child nutrition and basic nursing

There is a lack of knowledge on how alternative forms of sports facility provision influences end user's sports and physical activity behaviour, and the consequent impact this has on their health, well-being and social capital. To address this knowledge gap, this thesis has undertaken a multi-level analysis of the sport delivery system. It examines if strategic priorities and objectives pursued by different types of sport and fitness facilities, that are being influenced by macro level forces, along with their characteristics and ownership, influences individuals sport participation behaviour with a potential consequent impact on the policy outcomes of health, well-being and social capital. In the UK recently, sport policy objectives have focussed on increasing the population s participation in sport and physical activity to enhance a range of outcomes including health, well-being and social capital. Over the last three decades, there has also been significant changes in sport provision with the growth of private sector facilities, and public sector facilities being outsourced to private management. However, there is no evidence of the effectiveness of these alternative arrangements in delivering the policy objectives. There is limited knowledge on how different agents and actors in the sport delivery system function collectively to achieve these objectives or not, and a multi-level analysis of the sport delivery system i.e., from policy, through facilities, to end users does not exist. This gap in knowledge is addressed in this thesis through the adoption of a mixed methods case study of Leicestershire and Rutland Sport-County Sport Partnership (LRS-CSP) region in the midlands of England. The sport participation of individuals who use differently owned and managed sport and fitness facilities in the LRS-CSP region is examined, and the impact this has on their health, well-being and social capital, from macro level (policy), meso level (facilities), and micro level (end users) perspectives. Data collected at these levels involves, semi-structured interviews with the regional managers (macro level) who are responsible for the development and provision of sport in the region, a quantitative survey involving the facility managers (meso level) who are responsible for the day-to-day activities of the facilities, and quantitative survey and focus groups of end users in the region (micro level). Surveys done at the meso and the micro level are matched to the facilities of a variety of different ownership and characteristics to explore the influence this might have on individuals participation frequency and the impact this has on their health, well-being and social capital. The results show that government and public sport agencies priorities towards the sports sector which operate at the macro level of the sport delivery system influence the strategic objectives pursued by different types of sport and fitness facilities that are responsible for sport provision at the meso level of the sport delivery system. Public sport agencies and government bodies through their policies seem to have a significant influence over public sector including LMC facilities strategic decision making. However, this is not the case for the private sector facilities. Neither the strategic objectives of facilities nor their ownership and characteristics are shown to have a significant difference on the users sport participation behaviour, nor on the sport policy outcomes of their health, well-being and social capital. The largest influence on sport participation seems to be when individuals engage in sport with those they meet at the facility, indicating that facilitation of the co-creation of social capital among individuals could play a bigger role in increasing participation levels. Along with this, results also show that sport participation has a direct positive influence on individuals health which then enhances their well-being and social capital. This thesis contributes towards the long-standing debate about the relative value of different ownership types that span the public, private, and LMCs and their relationship with performance . The findings of the thesis suggest that, providing general availability of space for sport and fitness activities and by facilitating a network of opportunities with others and across activities is important in achieving the policy outcomes of improved participation and the consequent positive impact this has on health, well-being and social capital, and should be given priority in sport provision.

As people meet their basic biological needs, they become increasingly concerned with higher level needs, such as personal development and positive well-being. The term "subjective well-being" (SWB) refers to people's evaluations of their lives and although relatively stable, people's levels of SWB are influenced by life events. The high position of esteem needs in Maslow's hierarchy of needs reflects the importance of self-esteem in people's judgement of their quality of life. A one group post test only, analytical research design was utilised with 570 residents of an informal settlement in Soweto. A structured questionnaire was designed to obtain information on demographic variables, levels of SWB and levels of self-esteem. The levels of SWB and self-esteem within the community were relatively high. Multiple regression analyses models confirmed that demographic factors are weakly correlated with SWB and self-esteem. Self-esteem was highly correlated with life satisfaction.<br>Psychology<br>M.A. (Psychology)

碩士<br>建國科技大學<br>數位媒體設計系暨媒體與遊戲設計研究所<br>105<br>The purpose of this study was to explore the identification of cartoon characters, parent-children relationship, wellbeing and academic performance of 5th and 6th grader students in elementary schools. Out of 650 students from different elementary schools of Changhua County were chosen by using stratified random sampling in proportion to size and location of schools. A total of 586 (90.15%) returned questionnaires were considered valid. Hypotheses and GFI were analyzed by applied the software of SPSS and AMOS, and the mediating effect of variables also were evaluated. The results of the study are summarized as follow: 1. The students have significant difference of identification in cartoon characters. Particularly, the identification of cognition is the highest and behavior is lowest, 2. The parent-children relationship is positively associated with well-being, 3. The parent-children relationship is positively associated with academic performance, 4. Well-being is positively associated with academic performance, 5. Well-being is positively associated with the identification of cartoon characters, and 6. Well-being supports and confirms the mediator role of the parent-children relations and academic performance.