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Personal wellbeing among ethnic Koreans in China's Northeast

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: This study investigates personal wellbeing among a sample of ethnic Koreans in China's Northeast using the eight-item Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI). The PWI demonstrated good psychometric properties, consistent with previous studies. The data revealed a moderate level of personal wellbeing (PWI score = 70.3) and the results supported the Theory of Subjective Wellbeing Homeostasis, suggesting that strong external and internal buffers protect the HPM for ethnic Koreans, despite the onslaught of marketisation and urbanisation in China that are threatening to undermine Koreans' sense of ethnic identity. The predictors of personal wellbeing were found to be age (with a nonlinear relationship), education, gender, income, marital status and the city in which the individual lives.

Source: Asian Ethnicity

DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2012.625702

Authors: Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth, Qingguo Zhai, Juyong Zhang

Institutions: Monash University, Liaoning Shihua University, Dalian Minzu University

Language: English

Topic: Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2000701281

FWCI: 1.404

Cites: 60

Cited by: 5

Related to: 10