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Author(s): | Salgueiro, M. F. Malta, J. |
Date: | 2013 |
Title: | Latent growth curve modeling of psychological well-being trajectories |
Volume: | 2 |
Number: | 3 |
Pages: | 61-66 |
ISSN: | 2326-8999 |
Keywords: | British household panel General health questionnaire 12 Latent growth curve model Longitudinal data analysis |
Abstract: | This Paper Proposes Modeling Trajectories of Psychological Well-being Using Latent Growth Curve models (LGCMs). The psychometric scale of the General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12) is considered. Data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), from years 2003 to 2006 are used. In 1991 Graetz proposed the GHQ-12 as a multidimensional scale, containing three distinct dimensions: anxiety and depression, social dysfunction and loss of confidence. Using such scale, this paper compares a second-order LGCM for the trajectories of a latent factor (measured by these three dimensions) with a LGCM for the trajectories of an overall sum score. Conditional LGCMs are then fitted; sex, age group and perceived health status are considered as the explanatory variables of the growth trajectories. Results show that the model which considers the three dimensions of subjective well-being has a larger explaining capability than the one utilizing the subjective well-being score. |
Peerreviewed: | Sim |
Access type: | Open Access |
Appears in Collections: | BRU-RI - Artigos em revistas científicas internacionais com arbitragem científica |
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