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| Id | 103 | |
| Author | Grossi, E., ; Sacco, P.L., ; Blessi, G.T., ; Buscema, M., | |
| Title | The Interaction Between Culture, Health and Psychological Well-Being: Data Mining from the Italian Culture and Well-Being Project | |
| Reference | Grossi, E.; Blessi, G.T.; Sacco, P.L.; Buscema, M. (2012). The Interaction Between Culture, Health and Psychological Well‑Being: Data Mining from the Italian Culture and Well‑Being Project. Journal of Happiness Studies, 13(1): 129–148. |
Link to article | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-011-9254-x |
| Abstract | The purpose of this study is to understand the impact of health status and cultural participation upon psychological well-being, with special attention to the interaction between patterns of cultural access and other factors known to affect psychological well-being. Data for this report were collected from a sample of 1,500 Italian citizens. A multi-step random sampling method was adopted to draw a large representative sample from the Italian population. Subjects underwent a standard questionnaire for psychological well-being the Italian short form of the Psychological General Well Being Index (PGWBI) , and a questionnaire related to the frequency of participation to 15 different kinds of cultural activities during the previous year. The results show that, among the various potential factors considered, cultural access unexpectedly rankes as the second most important determinant of psychological well-being, immediately after the absence or presence of diseases, and outperforming factors such as job, age, income, civil status, education, place of living and other important factors. According to a semantic map generated by a powerful data mining algorithm, it turns out that different factors (among which cultural access and health status in particular) may be viewed as concurrent elements of a complex multi-causal scheme that seems to play a primary role in determining psychological distress or well-being. In particular, distress seems to be tightly connected with: living in the Southern part of Italy, average income level, living in semi-urban and urban areas, age group 46–60, presence of more than two concomitant diseases and a low level of cultural access. Well being, on the other hand, is tightly connected with: male gender, high cultural access, and absence of diseases. Some of these associations are confirmed by Principal Component Analysis. |
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| Qualitative evidence of the outcomes of the program suggest that it had a positive impact on participants physical and social well-being, as well as upon their creative activity. . | Once we put the culture/well-being link under the right set of analytical lenses, it turns out quite clearly that culture counts, namely, that there is clear evidence that cultural access has a definite impact on individual psychological well being (and particularly so if cultural access occurs in a well-balanced mind-body perspective), and moreover that culture provides for some of the most effective predictors of well-being.. | In particular, we believe that acknowledging cultural access as a major determinant of subjective well-being can be conducive to novel, challenging approaches to the design and implementation of public health strategies. . | The purpose of this study is to understand the impact of health status and cultural participation upon psychological well-being, with special attention to the interaction between patterns of cultural access and other factors known to affect psychological well-being. . | The explanation of this phenomenon could be that cultural access acts as a sort of modulator of the disease-associated psychological burden of the perceived loss of well-being. . | At this point, we asked ourselves whether, apart from the frequency of access to cultural activities, the degree of heterogeneity of the cultural activities being accessed would play a role as well in the perception of well-being. . | Higher levels of education and acculturation allow individuals to make better informed and self-conscious choices, which have a positive impact in terms of selfdetermination and health-serving habits and practices. . | They found evidence of positive effects of performing arts practice, including positive changes in reported behavior and improvements in social skills and interaction among young people at risk. . | Also, cultural access levels are associated with statistically significant differences in well-being scores. . |
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