wellbeing: Psychological well-being

Description

This data set contains 984 survey responses on the psychological well being (Ryff & Keyes, 1995) of middle-aged and older adults from the Notre Dame Study of Health and Well Being (Bergeman & Deboek, 2014). Psychological well-being has 6 sub-scales - autonomy, environmental mastery (envmast), personal growth (prsgrwth), positive relationships with others (posrel), purpose in life (prpsnlf), and self acceptance. These sub-scales are columns 21:26.

The following predictors of psychological well-being are included:

gender
age (18-91)
education (educ, with levels high-school, vocational, some-college, graduate degree, other)
income (inc, with binned levels)
chronic health problems (chrhlth)
somatic health problems (somhlth)
self-reported health problems (slfhlth)
positive affect (posaff)
negative affect (negaff)
positive social control (pscntrl)
control of internal states (cistot)
commitment (comit)
control (cntrl)
challenge (chlng)
ego resilience (egores)
positive social support from friends/family (pssfrnd, pssfam)
perceived stressful emotions (pssemot)
perceived stressful problems (pssprob)
loneliness (lonlnes)

* Note: This data set is only included for demonstration of the software. No other use of the data is permitted. Additional noise has been added to this data set to protect privacy.

Usage

wellbeing

Arguments

Format

A data frame of 984 observations and 26 variables (6 outcomes and 20 predictors)

Source

Bergeman, C. S., & Deboeck, P. R. (2014). Trait stress resistance and dynamic stress dissipation on health and well-being: The reservoir model. Research in Human Development, 11(2), 108-125.

References

Ryff, C. D., & Keyes, C. L. M. (1995). The structure of psychological well-being revisited. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69(4), 719.