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This study explored the links between individual’s time perspective and their structural position as well as related this perspective to how people spend their time. Time perspective was defined by individual’s scores on two distinct factors—future-orientation and clock-orientation. These factors were analysed jointly in order to account for how pe...
Ageing affects individuals’ daily behaviours. Functional and social limitations increase, while the pool of possible activities and individuals’ ability to switch between tasks decline. If older adults lose ability to perform certain activities and do not substitute them with others, the complexity of their daily time-use sequences will decline. St...
Exposure to the natural environment may benefit individuals’ mental health, but quantitative evidence for older adults is limited. We used Experience Sampling Method to collect 2,774 reports on daily experiences from 200 adults aged 65 and above living in Poland. Multilevel mixed effects logistic regression models examined the association between i...
Purpose
In this study, we investigate whether individuals’ BMI categories are associated with being dissatisfied with one’s life, how this association is affected by the social comparison that individuals make, and what the role of the overall BMI levels in this process is.
Methods
We use data for 21,577 men and 27,415 women, collected in 2016 by...
The association between everyday activities, health and subjective wellbeing in older adults has mostly been examined using different activities as separate variables. Which activities are likely to come together in individuals’ daily time-use patterns, or in what context, has not yet been analysed. This study looks at a broad range of spontaneousl...
Purpose
In this study we investigate whether individuals' BMI categories are associated with life satisfaction (LS), how this association is affected by the social comparison that individuals make, and what the role of the overall BMI levels in this process is.
Methods
We use data for 21,577 men and 27,415 women, collected in 2016 by the European...
The association between older adults' everyday activities, health and subjective wellbeing has mostly been examined using different activities as separate variables. It has not been analysed which activities are likely to come together in individuals' daily time use patterns, or in what context. Meanwhile, different combinations of activities and c...
This study looks at the time-use patterns of older adults and examines how complexity of daily behavioural sequences is related to an individual's age. Maintaining complex behavioural sequences in daily lives means that a person is able to lead a relatively rich life, but this becomes increasingly difficult as individuals face growing functional, c...
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This study uses a broad range of activities to examine how the type of activity, its social context, associated stress, importance, and the level of effort required are linked with activity enjoyment. Using aggregated data from all activities, it analyses the association between the experiential wellbeing of individuals and their satisfa...
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This study uses a broad range of activities to examine how the type of activity, its social context, associated stress, importance, and the level of effort required are linked with activity enjoyment. Using aggregated data from all activities, it analyses the association between the experiential wellbeing of individuals and their satis...
The situation of Polish migrants in Britain has mostly been analysed from the labour market perspective. More recently, research has also addressed the topic of migrants' social connections, identity and integration. However, little is known about their everyday lifestyle practices, in particular the nonmarket behaviours, such as socialising or con...
Individuals do not possess an entirely accurate assessment of the level of income differences in their society and so changes in quantitative measures of income inequality may not always align with changes in the perceptions of income inequality. This disconnect is partly driven by how people form their opinions about the level of inequality. In th...
Human anthropometric traits, while significantly determined by genetic factors, are also affected by an individual’s early life environment. An adult’s body height is a valid indicator of their living conditions in childhood. Parental education has been shown to be one of the key covariates of individuals’ health and height, both in childhood and a...
Background
The association between socio-economic position and health is believed to be mediated, in part, by psycho-social comparison of one’s situation to that of others. But with who? Possibilities include family, friends, elites, or even those in other countries or in previous times. So far, there has been almost no research on whether the refe...
Background
Adult’s body height has been positively associated with various health and social benefits. Studies have demonstrated that parental education is one of the key covariates of individual’s health and height in both childhood and adulthood. However, another important covariate of child’s health, parental functional literacy, has been largel...
Any systematic errors in self-reported height, a measure commonly used in health research, may produce biased BMI estimates and reduce the effectiveness of public health interventions. To our knowledge, none of the studies evaluating the validity of self-reported height explore this issue in cross-national settings. This study analyses data on a su...
Background:
The association between socio-economic position and health is believed to be mediated, in part, by psycho-social comparison of one's situation with that of others. But with whom? Possibilities include family, friends, elites, or even those in other countries or in previous times. So far, there has been almost no research on whether the...
Objective
Lifestyle behaviors are everyday activities that result from individual's values, knowledge, and norms shaped by broader cultural and socioeconomic context. These behaviors affect body weight as well as overall health and are influenced by a number of social characteristics. The aim of this paper was to examine the net effects of lifestyl...
This paper examines social differentiation in eating patterns in Britain. It focuses on family meals among individuals with under-age children. Eating with family members has been associated with improvement in wellbeing, nutritional status, and school performance of the children. Modern lifestyles may pose a challenge to commensal eating for all g...
Despite having important consequences for individual health and well-being, daily eating habits are likely to be taken for granted. A comparative perspective helps illustrate eating behaviors specific to a given society. This paper presents an analysis, using nationally representative data, of eating patterns in Armenia, Poland and the United State...
Social differentiation in leisure time-use patterns has been found in many developed countries with long-standing capitalist traditions. Thus far, however, little is known about the countries with relatively younger capitalist economies, such as post-socialist nations in Central and Eastern Europe, where, until recently, social inequality has not b...
Sociological and economic literature points to numerous differences across societies and social categories in their patterns of time allocation. For instance, studies of the labour force show that daily behaviours differ significantly between people of higher and lower occupational status (e.g. Kohn and Schooler, 1983). In the same time, behaviours...
Individual’s time perspective and everyday time-use patterns have major impact on all realms of human life. They influence the chances for upwards mobility and affect individual life trajectories. As put by Jeremy Rifkin, “those who are most present oriented are swept into the future that others have laid out for them” (Rifkin, 1987). However, time...
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Question (1)
I have run ordered probit model for a latent factor using gsem function in Stata 16. This is because I have Likert scale (1-5) answers to my observable variables. The problem is I cannot obtain fit statistics for the model. I have read that it is not possible for gsem in Stata with some exceptions (e.g. latent class analysis). Is that the case?
Would an alternative be to run a SEM with maximum likelihood? I guess that has been done in some studies using Likert scale answers, and I can then get gof easily. But I am hesitant as it does not seem to be technically correct..
Thank you for any suggestions!
