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| Id | 102 | |
| Author | Grossi, E., ; Sacco, P.L., ; Blessi, G.T., ; Cerutti, R., | |
| Title | The Impact of Culture on the Individual Subjective Well-Being of the Italian Population: An Exploratory Study | |
| Reference | Grossi, E.; Sacco, P.L.; Blessi, G.T; Cerutti, R. (2011). The Impact of Culture on the Individual Subjective Well-Being of the Italian Population: An Exploratory Study, Applied Research Quality of Life, 6: 387-410. |
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| Link to article | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-010-9135-1 |
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| Abstract | This study employs a relatively new analytical tool – Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) – to explore the relationship between cultural access and individual psychological well-being (the Psychological General Well-Being Index – PGWBI). The particular ANN utilized is an artificial “organism” called TWIST, which has been designed to sort out the most relevant variables for the purpose of prediction or classification. TWIST was found to be useful in detecting the underlying relationships among the many wellbeing variables that were part of the study, and was superior to linear techniques in dealing with the full dynamic interactions that contribute to cultural choices and behaviours. A detailed appendix to the article describes this methodology in full. The data for the study were derived from a cross-sectional, randomized survey of 1500 Italian residents. The survey instrument included questions that assessed the psychological well-being of respondents in six domains: anxiety, depressed mood, positive well-being, self-control, general health, and vitality. Fifteen variables related to cultural access were added to the questionnaire, as well as activities related to sport participation and local community development, and respondents were asked to indicate the frequency of participation in each activity. |
This study employs a relatively new analytical tool Artificial Neural Networks to explore the relationship between cultural access and individual psychological well-being. but reasoning about culture as a major direct determinant of health or of physical and psychological well being is a less uncontroversial point. should we find that cultural habits are indeed effective predictors of psychological well-being and combining these results with the already existing evidence about the impact of culture on life expectancy we would thus have a promising empirical platform to construct a model that illustrates in some depth and explains this connection thereby providing further insights and avenues for new empirical research. the pgwbi has been developed as a tool to measure self-representations of intra-personal affective or emotional states reflecting a sense of subjective well-being or distress and thus captures what we could call a subjective perception of well-being see dupuy for a general presentation and a historical account of its development. the four implied variables are sport practice novels reading cinema and theatre.
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