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Does National Income Inequality Affect Individuals’ Quality of Life in Europe? Inequality, Happiness, Finances, and Health
Zagorski, Krzysztof; Evans, Mariah; Kelley, Jonathan; … - In: Social Indicators Research 117 (2014) 3, pp. 1089-1110
This paper analyses the effect of income inequality on Europeans’ quality of life, specifically on their overall well …-being (happiness, life satisfaction), on their financial quality of life (satisfaction with standard of living, affordability of goods … correlations of inequality with overall well-being, financial quality of life, and health are negative. But this is misleading …
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The Effect of Fear of Crime and Crime Victimization on Subjective Well-Being in Africa
Sulemana, Iddisah - In: Social Indicators Research 121 (2015) 3, pp. 849-872
A relatively limited number of studies have examined the effect of fear of crime and crime victimization on subjective well-being. This paper examines how fear of crime and crime victimization affect the well-being of people in Africa using data from the Round 4 of the Afrobarometer Surveys...
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Gender, Unemployment and Subjective Well-Being: Why Being Unemployed Is Worse for Men than for Women
Meer, Peter - In: Social Indicators Research 115 (2014) 1, pp. 23-44
This paper tries to explain why unemployment has such a severe effect on the subjective well-being of people. It is already known that unemployed have among the lowest levels of subjective well-being of all people. This paper explains and tests why this is so. The explanation is based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010759807
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Steering Towards Happiness in The Netherlands
Boelhouwer, Jeroen; Campen, Cretien - In: Social Indicators Research 114 (2013) 1, pp. 59-72
government to develop a policy to increase happiness? Is it actually possible to raise the level of happiness in the Netherlands … role of a ‘happiness machine’, which seeks to promote individual happiness, or whether it would do better to act as a … questions on the basis of Dutch initiatives designed to promote happiness in the areas of municipal policy, welfare, health care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010848398
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The Pursuit of Happiness in China: Individualism, Collectivism, and Subjective Well-Being During China’s Economic and Social Transformation
Steele, Liza; Lynch, Scott - In: Social Indicators Research 114 (2013) 2, pp. 441-451
happiness and life satisfaction thus substantiating descriptions of their society as increasingly individualistic. While the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010848442
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Review of the Day Reconstruction Method (DRM)
Diener, Ed; Tay, Louis - In: Social Indicators Research 116 (2014) 1, pp. 255-267
The Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) for assessing daily experience and subjective well-being is reviewed. The DRM is a promising method as it assesses feelings within situations and activities, and therefore goes beyond asking who is happy to asking when they are happy. The technique might be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010848445
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Exploring the Myth of Unhappiness in Former Communist Countries: The Roles of the Sex Gap in Life Expectancy and the Marital Status Composition
Kageyama, Junji - In: Social Indicators Research 111 (2013) 1, pp. 327-339
National average happiness and the difference in happiness between women and men are positively correlated in European … sex difference in life expectancy. Performing regression analyses, this study shows that the correlation between happiness … for about one-third of the correlation. A decline in happiness influences men’s mortality more than women’s, and widens …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010848455
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Can Governments Boost People’s Sense of Well-Being? The Impact of Selected Labour Market and Health Policies on Life Satisfaction
Boarini, Romina; Comola, Margherita; Keulenaer, Femke; … - In: Social Indicators Research 114 (2013) 1, pp. 105-120
There is strong evidence that subjective well-being measures capture in a reliable way specific components of well-being that other non-subjective measures miss. The question of whether subjective well-being is policy amenable is however still largely unexplored in the research. This paper sheds...
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The Metrics of Societal Happiness
Tay, Louis; Chan, David; Diener, Ed - In: Social Indicators Research 117 (2014) 2, pp. 577-600
objective manner via the aggregation of happiness levels over time and activities. The global reporting perspective emphasizes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010848500
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Did the Decline in Social Connections Depress Americans’ Happiness?
Bartolini, Stefano; Bilancini, Ennio; Pugno, Maurizio - In: Social Indicators Research 110 (2013) 3, pp. 1033-1059
During the last 30 years US citizens experienced, on average, a decline in reported happiness, social connections, and … confidence in institutions. We show that a remarkable portion of the decrease in happiness is predicted by the decline in social … connections and confidence in institutions. We carry out our investigation in three steps. First, we run a happiness regression …
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