Table 3.
Correlation between Thai Mental Health Indicators, happiness, and life satisfaction among 60,569 cohort members, 2009
| Thai mental health indicators | Correlation coefficient |
|
|---|---|---|
| Happiness | Life satisfaction | |
| Mental state domain | ||
| Positive effect | ||
| I am contented with life | 0.42 | 0.56 |
| I feel relaxed | 0.49 | 0.53 |
| I have self-esteem | 0.34 | 0.42 |
| Negative effect (results inverteda) | ||
| I feel bored and discouraged with my daily life | 0.38 | 0.42 |
| I feel disappointed in myself | 0.36 | 0.41 |
| I feel life is full of miseries | 0.38 | 0.39 |
| Mental capacity domain | ||
| I can face and accept problems | 0.15 | 0.14 |
| I can control my emotions in crisis | 0.18 | 0.20 |
| I feel confident in facing crises | 0.18 | 0.19 |
| Mental quality domain | ||
| I feel sympathetic towards others | 0.04 | 0.08 |
| I feel happy in helping out others | 0.08 | 0.12 |
| I help others when I have the chance | 0.09 | 0.12 |
| Social support domain | ||
| I feel secure when I stay with my family | 0.28 | 0.37 |
| I trust my family will take good care of me when ill | 0.24 | 0.30 |
| My family members love and care for each other | 0.28 | 0.34 |
a
Because the ‘negative effect’ scores were reversed, a higher score indicates low negative effects and vice versa