Table 3. Correlation matrix for the outcome well-being variables, gender, and age.
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |
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1. Gender | |||||||||||
2. Age | 0.06 | ||||||||||
3. Oxford happiness | −0.09 | −0.07 | |||||||||
4. QOL general | 0.01 | −0.09 | 0.60** | ||||||||
5. QOL social | 0.05 | −0.07 | 0.51** | 0.41** | |||||||
6. QOL psychological | −0.08 | −0.06 | 0.83** | 0.64** | 0.52** | ||||||
7. QOL environment | −0.08 | −0.06 | 0.58** | 0.48** | 0.37** | 0.58** | |||||
8. QOL health | −0.06 | −0.04 | 0.69** | 0.55** | 0.38** | 0.68** | 0.58** | ||||
9. Life satisfaction | 0.01 | −0.12 | 0.72** | 0.62** | 0.53** | 0.76** | 0.59** | 0.54** | |||
10. Positive affect | 0.01 | −0.03 | 0.77** | 0.50** | 0.44** | 0.77** | 0.53** | 0.62** | 0.65** | ||
11. Negative affect | 0.04 | −0.01 | −0.61** | −0.52** | −0.36** | −0.59** | −0.43** | −0.62** | −0.50** | −0.45** | |
12. Subjective well-being | −0.02 | −0.07 | 0.76** | 0.65** | 0.52** | 0.77** | 0.59** | 0.66** | 0.87** | 0.63** | −0.87** |
Notes:
Oxford happiness is the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (Hills & Argyle, 2002); QOL is quality of life, QOL general is the general question about quality of life and QOL social, QOL psychological, QOL environment, QOL health are the four domain scales of WHOQOL (WHOQOL Group, 1998a); Life satisfaction is the Satisfaction with Life scale (Diener et al., 1985); Positive affect and Negative affect are PANAS subscales measuring positive and negative affect respectively (Watson, Clark & Tellegen, 1988); Subjective well-being is the composite scale of subjective well-being combining the Satisfaction with Life and the PANAS Positive and reversed Negative affect scales.
p < 0.001.