The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index: Update 2003 Robert A Cummins (Deakin University) Richard...
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- The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index: Update 2003 Robert A
Cummins (Deakin University) Richard Eckersley (Australian National
University) Sing Kai Lo (University of Sydney) Melanie Davern
(Deakin University) Bruce Hunter (Deakin University) Erik Okerstrom
(Australian Unity) NB. Please view via Notes page. You can then
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key, or the double-headed arrow to the right of this frame. 5 th
Australian Conference on Quality of Life Proceedings, Melanie
Davern (Ed.), Deakin University, Melbourne, December 2003
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- The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index Personal Wellbeing Index
National Wellbeing Index
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- The Australian Surveys Geographically representative sample N =
2,000 Telephone interview #1:April 2001 #2:September 2001
(immediately following September 11) ------------ #8:August
2003
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- How satisfied are you with your ----? 012345688910 Completely
Dissatisfied Completely Satisfied Mixed [Jones and Thurstone,1955]
11-point, end-defined scale
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- 012345678910 0 2030405060708090100 %SM Likert All data are
converted to a standardized range from 0 - 100
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- How satisfied are you with your life as a whole? ( S E V E N L
I F E D O M A I N S ) Standard of living Health Productivity
Relationships Safety Community connectedness Future security
Measuring Personal Wellbeing
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- Personal Wellbeing Index How satisfied are you with your
----------? Standard of living Safety Health Productivity
Relationships Community connectedness Future security RonnyRonny
Subjective wellbeing = average domain satisfaction
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- Population Mean 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Frequency
distribution for subjective wellbeing Completely dissatisfied
Completely satisfied
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- Personal Wellbeing Index -SeptemberBaliPre-IraqPost-Iraq
11BombingWarWar S1S2S3S4S5S6S7S8
AprilSeptemberMarchAugustNovemberMarchJuneAugust
20012001200220022002200320032003 Major Events Preceding Survey
Survey Date Scores above this line are significantly greater than
S2, S4, S5 Scores above this line are significantly greater than
S1
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- Satisfaction with Relationships >S2, 3, 4, 5 >S1
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- Satisfaction with Feeling Part of Your Community >S1
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- Satisfaction with How Safe you Feel >S3, 4, 6 >S2, 5
>S1
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- Satisfaction with Future Security >S4 >S1 >S2
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- Personal Wellbeing Index National Wellbeing Index Standard of
living Economic situation Health State of environment Achievements
in life Social conditions Personal relationships How Australia is
governed How safe you feel Business Community connectedness
National security Future security Question: How satisfied are you
with .? Australian Unity Wellbeing Index
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- National Wellbeing Index >S2
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- Satisfaction with National Security >S4 >S5 >S6
>S2
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- Satisfaction with Government >S5, S6, S7, S8 >S4
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- Personal Wellbeing Index -SeptemberBaliPre-IraqPost-Iraq
11BombingWarWar S1S2S3S4S5S6S7S8
AprilSeptemberMarchAugustNovemberMarchJuneAugust
20012001200220022002200320032003 Major Events Preceding Survey
Survey Date Scores above this line are significantly greater than
S2, S4, S5 Scores above this line are significantly greater than
S1
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- Like the internal management of body temperature and blood
pressure Our sense of satisfaction with our lives is also
internally managed and held constant Subjective Wellbeing
Homeostasis
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- Personal Wellbeing Index -SeptemberBaliPre-IraqPost-Iraq
11BombingWarWar S1S2S3S4S5S6S7S8
AprilSeptemberMarchAugustNovemberMarchJuneAugust
20012001200220022002200320032003 Major Events Preceding Survey
Survey Date Scores above this line are significantly greater than
S2, S4, S5 Scores above this line are significantly higher than
S1
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- Normative Range for Each Gender Group Derived from the Survey
Mean Scores (N=8)
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- PWI x Gender
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- Normative Range for each age group derived from the survey mean
scores (N=8)
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- Why does SWB rise with age? Cohort effect (survival of the
happiest) Externally driven (life improves after 55y) Internally
driven (a) Change in strength of response (b) Genetically
determined rise in set-point (c) Homeostasis becomes weaker
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- Survey 1 (pre-September 11) 70 71 72 73 74 75 76
18-2526-3536-4546-5556-6566-7576+ Age Strength Of Satisfaction
(PWI)
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- Strength of happiness and Sadness in Relation to Personal
Events Age trend = NS
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- Normative Range for each age group derived from the survey mean
scores (N=8)
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- Homeostasis could fail because--- The homeostatic system has
become weaker The challenges to homeostasis have become
stronger
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- Decreased buffering capacity Decreased sense of control
Increased tendency towards acquiescent responding If homeostasis
becomes weaker-
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- Maybe increased acquiescence causes increased wellbeing Does
Sept 11 make you sad? [YES] How sad does Sept 11 make you
feel?[Lots] How satisfied do you feel with your life? [Lots]
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- What about the S11/Bali terrorist attacks? Does this make you
feel sadder than normal now If Yes On a scale from 0 10, how strong
would you rate this sadness?
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- % recalling attacks with Sadness x Age (combined surveys)
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- Strength of recalled Sadness (combined surveys) (Income and
gender used as co-variates)
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- Normative Range for each age group derived from the survey mean
scores (N=8)
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- % Recall with Sadness vs PWI (combined surveys) % Recalling
With sadness 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75
18-2526-3536-4546-5556-6566-7576+ Age % recall with sadness PWI R
=.96 -79 -78 -77 -76 -75 -74 -73 PWI
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- Personal Wellbeing Index Strength Of Satisfaction (PWI)
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- Conclusion 1. The pattern of change in SWB across surveys is
age-dependent (a)Young people (18-55 years) show no systematic
influence of major international events on their personal wellbeing
(b)Older people (56y+) show an increased SWB that may reflect
enhanced social acquiescence.
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- Conclusion 2. The age-related increase in subjective wellbeing
maybe an artifact of acquiescent responding induced by major public
events.