摘要：Background: Results of a recently published paper from members of the well-being and Poverty Pathways Project team indicated that a seven-domain, intercorrelated factor model of economic confidence, agency/participation, social connections, close relationships, physical/mental health, competence/self-worth, and values/meaning as dimensions of inner well-being yielded optimal goodness-of-fit (compared to a single-factor model) among a large sample of individuals in rural India. The goal of the present study was to determine whether this model also provided optimal goodness-of-fit among a similarly large sample of individuals in rural Zambia.

Findings: A 35-item survey measuring each of the seven domains of inner well-being(5 items per domain) was administered to 344 individuals (140 men, 204 women).

Results of confirmatory factor analyses indicated that the seven-factor intercorrelated model not only was acceptable in itself but also yielded significantly better goodness-of-fit than did a one-factor model. Furthermore, 34 of the 35 items loaded significantly and positively on their hypothesised factors.

Conclusions: Overall, results from the present paper – combined with results from the recently published paper by members of the well-being and Poverty Pathways Project team – indicate that the seven-factor intercorrelated model can be generalised across India and Zambia. Implications for studies of well-being within (as well as outside)developing nations are discussed.

作者：Stanley O Gaines Jr

出处：Psychology of well-being: Theory, Research and Practice 2014年第4卷第16页