Who Needs a Friend? How Age and Having Someone one can Count on Explain Subjective Well-Being in India

2021-11-10

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Who Needs a Friend? How Age and Having Someone one can Count on Explain Subjective Well-Being in India

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2021-11-10

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Oxford University Press

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Subjective well-being is now considered a reliable predictor of many desirable outcomes not only at the individual level, in terms of one’s personal health, but also at the national level, in terms of a nation’s per capita gross domestic product, progress towards reaching sustainable development goals, and other metrics. Subjective well-being has several known causes that reliably predict well-being across time and place, such as income, education, prosociality, and perceived corruption (ie REF). Given the benefits of well-being to both individuals and nations, and that subjective well-being is often predicted by variables that are not easily altered, this study aims to better understand the relationships between subjective well-being and some of its known predictors, in the context of India. Three hypotheses were tested and found significant with nationally representative samples of a total of 57,077 survey respondents in India, using data from Gallup World Poll for 2006-2019. Hypothesis# 1 tests for having someone one can count on as a mediator. Hypothesis# 2 tests for age as a moderator. Hypothesis# 3 is a moderated mediation that best explains how the known predictors of subjective well-being make their influence, and with whom. This study’s findings give insights into the ways in which subjective well-being in India can be better understood and thus improved. Such understanding may also help local Indian nonprofit organizations, as well as other researchers and mental health providers, with shared interests in the growing prevalence of suicide in India.

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GSA2021 Poster Presentation for Gerontological Society of America 2021; the conference poster presentation abstract-only was published in "Innovation in Aging" as an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The proper citation is noted here. This conservancy entry also includes the accompanying conference poster.

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Research reported in this publication has benefited from support provided by the Minnesota Population Center (Award number P2CHD041023), which receives funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and by the University of Minnesota Life Course Center on the Demography and Economics of Aging (P30AG066613), funded through a grant from the National Institute on Aging.

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10.1093/geroni/igab046.3316

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Sanborne E. Who Needs a Friend? How Age and Having Someone one can Count on Explain Subjective Well-Being in India Innovation in Aging. 2021 Jan;5(Suppl 1):923-924. PMCID: PMC8682024.

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Sanborne, Erika. (2021). Who Needs a Friend? How Age and Having Someone one can Count on Explain Subjective Well-Being in India. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, 10.1093/geroni/igab046.3316.

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