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Life satisfaction and relative income : perceptions and evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how … important these income comparisons are to them. We find substantial gender differences, with income comparisons being much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635744
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Life satisfaction and relative income : perceptions and evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how … important these income comparisons are to them. We find substantial gender differences, with income comparisons being much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003895798
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Alternative values-based "recipes" for Life Satisfaction : German results with an Australian replication
Headey, Bruce; Wagner, Gert G. - 2018
In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for everyone, or at least everyone in the West. In this paper, analysing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, with a limited replication based on Australian panel data, we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912913
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Choices which change life satisfaction : revising SWB theory to account for change
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner’s personality, hours of work,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966917
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Choices which change life satisfaction : revising SWB theory to account for change
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner's personality, hours of work,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971047
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Between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being
Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Fauth, Elizabeth; Schupp, … - 2009
Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. In this chapter, we argue that focusing on a phase of life during which this positive picture does not necessarily prevail promises to help us better understand between-person disparities in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635339
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Parents transmit happiness along with associated values and behaviors to their children : a lifelong happiness dividend?
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2012
There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for 'children' who have grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness from parents to children is partly due to transmission of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656134
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Alternative values-based "recipes" for life satisfaction : German results with an Australian replication
Headey, Bruce; Wagner, Gert G. - 2018
In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for everyone, or at least everyone in the West. In this paper, analysing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, with a limited replication based on Australian panel data, we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011901759
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Terminal decline in well-being : the role of multi-indicator constellations of physical health and psychosocial correlates
Brandmaier, Andreas M.; Ram, Nilam; Wagner, Gert G.; … - 2017
Well-being is often relatively stable across adulthood and old age, but typically exhibits pronounced deteriorations and vast individual differences in the terminal phase of life. However, the factors contributing to these differences are not well understood. Using up to 25-year annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663319
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Levels of and changes in life satisfaction predict mortality hazards : disentangling the role of physical health, perceived control, and social orientation
Hülür, Gizem; Heckhausen, Jutta; Hoppmann, Christiane A. - 2017
It is well-documented that well-being typically evinces precipitous decrements at the end of life. However, research has primarily taken a postdictive approach by knowing the outcome (date of death) and aligning in retrospect how well-being has changed for people with documented death events. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011701181