Robert Weech?Maldonado|Michael J. Miller|Justin Lord
The Relationships among Socio-Demographics, Perceived Health, and Happiness
University of Alabama at Birmingham|Texas A&M University|University of Alabama at Birmingham
article explores explore relationships among sociodemographics perceived health happiness patient population 221 adults recruited 39 primary care practices alabama also explored whether relationship sociodemographics happiness mediated perceived health dependent variable happiness dichotomized happy versus unhappy independent variables correlates happiness included race black white age 65 years vs 65 years older gender male vs female perceived income sufficient vs insufficient meet basic needs health literacy adequate vs inadequate selfrated health excellentvery goodgood vs poorfair data analyzed using generalized linear latent mixed models examine relationship happiness correlates findings suggest adequate health literacy better perceived health associated increase likelihood happiness addition relationship perceived sufficient income happiness mediated perceived health whereas individuals sufficient income likely better perceived health result likely happy individual factors gender age race significantly associated happy higher perceived health models results suggest policies aimed increasing health literacy promoting health reducing income disparities may associated greater happiness