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Michael A. Shields Stephen Wheatley Price Mark Wooden 《Journal of population economics》2009,22(2):421-443
This paper uses data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey to investigate the association
between neighbourhood effects and life satisfaction. We find that neighbourhood measures of social support and interaction
and the absence of socio-economic deprivation are positively and significantly correlated with individual life satisfaction.
Neighbourhood fixed effects, however, explain only an additional 1.5 to 2.5% of the variance in life satisfaction over the
14% explained by individual characteristics.
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Mark WoodenEmail: |
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The relevance of social interactions on housing satisfaction 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
For most individuals, housing is the largest consumption and investment item of their lifetime and, as a result, housing satisfaction
is an important component of their quality of life. The purpose of this paper then is to investigate the determinants of individual
housing satisfaction as a particular domain of satisfaction with life as a whole, examining the effects of individual and
household attributes (predictive), housing characteristics (hedonic), and more importantly, of social interactions originated
in one's residential neighbourhood. To do so, we model housing as a composite commodity that satisfies dwelling needs, as
well as other intangibles such as familiar relationships and socio-status aspects. We use the Survey of Living Conditions
and Poverty (Spain). Specifically, using a self-reported measure of housing satisfaction, we estimate ordered probit models
searching for the empirical specification that provides the best fit accounting for divergences driven by aspirations defined
in the own household (internal norm), and by social comparisons (peer-effect or external norm).
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Esperanza Vera-ToscanoEmail: |
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Sibel Selim 《Social indicators research》2008,88(3):531-562
This research aims to investigate life satisfaction and happiness in Turkey. It extends the previous researches on subjective
well-being (SWB) for Turkey by considering both happiness and life satisfaction. The previous researches for Turkey are local
studies, and their findings cannot be generalized to the population of Turkish society. Given these facts, the factors that
shape individual happiness and life satisfaction amongst Turkish people are determined using a representative survey of sociocultural
and political change, World Values Survey (WVS). Some results obtained in this study are similar to typical findings such
as a negative age effect, positive influences of income and health status, and a negative effect of unemployment. Contrary
to the expectations, middle education has a negative direct effect on life satisfaction among females, and the upper education
level is insignificant in the life satisfaction model. By comparing the correlates of happiness and life satisfaction across
different years, this research aims to provide insights for policy makers and professionals to improve the perceived lives
of Turkish people.
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Sibel SelimEmail: |
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This study is part of a collaborative project examining the quality of life in Confucian societies in Asia. Our major findings
suggest that, when our sixteen specific life domains are grouped into three life spheres, namely, material, post-material,
and public, the Japanese people tend to be most satisfied with the post-material sphere of life and least satisfied with the
public sphere of life such as the condition of environment and welfare system. In searching the direct, independent effects
of demographics, lifestyles, value priorities, and domain assessments on the quality of life, none of the public life domain
assessments shows a significant impact on the quality of life, while friendships and spiritual life in the post-material sphere
of life are an important determinant. Equally notable is the finding that neither educational attainment nor household income
contributes significantly to the experience of subjective well-being. Leading a global lifestyle also affects positively the
quality of life. Finally, being married and satisfaction with marital life appear to be powerful and prevalent influence on
the quality of life in Japan.
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Takashi InoguchiEmail: |
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The AsiaBarometer of 1,000 respondents shows that Hong Kong people have a great desire for materialistic attainment, and such
an emphasis on materialism bodes ill for their quality of life. Negative assessments of the public life sphere, which encompasses
the natural environment, the social welfare system, and the democratic system, also detract from the experiences of happiness,
enjoyment, and accomplishment in Hong Kong. Surprisingly, access to digital communication devices helps Hong Kong people to
experience a greater quality of life.
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Ming SingEmail: |
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Life Goals Matter to Happiness: A Revision of Set-Point Theory 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Bruce Headey 《Social indicators research》2008,86(2):213-231
Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), this paper provides evidence that life goals matter
substantially to subjective well-being (SWB). Non-zero sum goals, which include commitment to family, friends and social and
political involvement, promote life satisfaction. Zero sum goals, including commitment to career success and material gains,
appear detrimental to life satisfaction. Finding that conscious life goals matter can potentially make an important contribution
to SWB theory. The most widely accepted theory—set-point or dynamic equilibrium theory—essentially claims that set-points
are near-automatic consequences of hereditary characteristics, including personality traits. Life goals play no role in these
theories and major life events are viewed as having only a transitory effect. The SOEP panel data show that, over a 15–20
year period, non-trivial minorities record substantial changes in their set-points. This paper shows linkages between these
changes and (a) the personality traits of extraversion, neuroticism and internal locus of control and (b) choice of life goals.
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Bruce HeadeyEmail: |
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Chong-Min Park 《Social indicators research》2009,92(2):263-294
The AsiaBarometer survey of 1,023 respondents shows Life in Korea is highly modernized and digitalized without being much
globalized. Despite the modernization and digitalization of their lifestyles, ordinary citizens still prioritize materialistic
values more than post-materialistic values, and they remain least satisfied in the material life sphere. A multivariate analysis
of the Korean survey reveals that their positive assessments of their standard of living and marriage are the most powerful
influences on the quality of life they experience. Remarkable improvements in the objective conditions of life for the past
three decades have failed to transform Korea into a nation of well-being.
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Chong-Min ParkEmail: |
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Personal Values as Mitigating Factors in the Link Between Income and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from the European Social Survey 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Using data from the first two rounds of the European Social Survey, we examine the link between income, reference income and
life satisfaction across Western Europe. We find that whilst there is a strong positive relationship between income and life
satisfaction, reference or comparison income exerts a strong negative influence. Interestingly, our results confirm the importance
of personal values and beliefs not only as predictors of subjective well-being, but also as mitigating factors in the relationship
between income, reference income and life satisfaction. While our findings provide additional empirical support for the relative
utility hypothesis, they are also consistent with Rojas’ (J Econ Psychol 28:1–14, 2007) Conceptual-Referent-Theory (CRT), which is based on the premise that the salience of income and comparison income depends on one’s intrinsic values
and personal beliefs.
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Yannis GeorgellisEmail: |
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Astra N. Bonini 《Social indicators research》2008,87(2):223-236
This study adds to the literature on subjective well-being and life satisfaction by exploring variation in individual life
satisfaction across countries. Understanding whether and how individual life satisfaction varies across countries is important
because if the goal of development is to increase well-being, we must identify the causes of well-being in different national
and regional contexts. Using hierarchical linear modeling techniques, I test the hypothesis that individual well-being does
vary across countries, and that national wealth, human development and environmental conditions explain this variation. I
also test whether the effects of individual characteristics on life satisfaction (including age, marital status, education,
income, employment status, and sex) vary across countries, and which country level characteristics explain these variations.
Using individual level data from the World Values Survey, I find that there is significant variation in life satisfaction
across countries. There is also significant variation in the slopes of individual predictors of life satisfaction across countries
and regions. Regional differences in the effects of individual characteristics on life satisfaction explain most of the between
country variation in life satisfaction. This indicates that universal development indicators may not adequately reflect differences
in life satisfaction across countries, and that development measurements should better reflect regional differences.
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Astra N. BoniniEmail: |
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The current study evaluates three hypothesized models on subjective well-being, comprising life domain ratings (LDR), overall
satisfaction with life (OSWL), and overall dissatisfaction with life (ODWL), using structural equation modeling (SEM). A sample
of 1,310 volunteering students, randomly assigned to six conditions, rated their overall life (dis)satisfaction and their
(dis)satisfaction with six different life domains. Each condition used one of six response formats, differing in (1) orientation
(horizontal vs. vertical), and (2) anchoring (0 to 10, −5 to +5, and Not numbered). The results of a confirmatory factor analysis
(CFA) support a six-factor model of LDR based on satisfaction or dissatisfaction items. However, our findings indicate that
the kind of response format used to obtain satisfaction and dissatisfaction ratings can affect the factor loadings. Our results
indicate that the proposed models of OSWL, and ODWL fit the data well, and are able to predict OSWL and ODWL, respectively.
Moreover, among six life domains, which figure as the latent variables in our models, psychological well-being was found to
be the strongest predictor of both OSWL and ODWL.
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Peter TheunsEmail: |
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We estimate the cost of droughts by matching rainfall data with individual life satisfaction. Our context is Australia over
the period 2001 to 2004, which included a particularly severe drought. Using fixed-effect models, we find that a drought in
spring has a detrimental effect on life satisfaction equivalent to an annual reduction in income of A$18,000. This effect,
however, is only found for individuals living in rural areas. Using our estimates, we calculate that the predicted doubling
of the frequency of spring droughts will lead to the equivalent loss in life satisfaction of just over 1% of GDP annually.
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Michael A. ShieldsEmail: |
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Proponents of social equality attribute low life satisfaction to income inequality in society, an inequality which occurs
when most people have relatively low income and only a few have high income. In contrast, range-frequency theory and other
social comparison theories predict that when most people have low income, they are satisfied because of the absence of relative
deprivation among themselves. This prediction essentially suggests that that the size of the group of individuals with comparable
income (i.e., income parity) sustains their life satisfaction. This theoretical prediction, however, does not consider their
desire to be distinctive. By incorporating the notion of optimal distinctiveness, the size of income parity may have a quadratic
effect on the individual’s life satisfaction. This is a hypothesis that receives support from the present study in Hong Kong,
China. The study finds a saddle point of income parity size associated with the lowest life satisfaction, other things being
equal. Furthermore, middle-income individuals have income parity size equal to or above this saddle point. They would have
higher life satisfaction with increased income parity size, which therefore leads to a more enlarged income inequality. Others,
however, may have higher life satisfaction with reduced income parity size. Hence, reducing income inequality would have mixed
effects on people with different levels of income.
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Chau-kiu CheungEmail: |
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Sustainable Housing in the Urban Context: International Sustainable Development Indicator Sets and Housing 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Housing, an essential aspect of quality of life, is also significant for sustainable development (SD). All of the major international
statements on SD refer to housing or settlement strategies. However, indicator sets derived from these statements often fail
to include good indicators of sustainable housing. This article outlines the conceptualisation of SD and housing from the
international statements. It proceeds by describing the international indicator sets which have been constructed based on
these policy statements. International organisations such as the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD),
the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Union (EU) have all produced indicator
sets. However, this article contends that housing is an underdeveloped indicator and calls for more attention to be paid to
the importance of aspects of housing for SD and the measurement of progress towards it via social indicators.
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Montserrat Pareja EastawayEmail: |
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Pei-shan Liao 《Social indicators research》2009,91(1):99-114
This study explores the consistency between objective indicators and subjective perceptions of quality of life in a ranking
of survey data for cities and counties in Taiwan. Data used for analysis included the Statistical Yearbook of Hsiens and Municipalities
and the Survey on Living Conditions of Citizens in Taiwan, both given for the year 2000. The Quality of life was examined
in seven domains: medical services, domestic finances, work, education, leisure, public safety, and environmental quality.
Subjective and objective rankings for each domain of quality of life for 23 areas (some areas are cities and some are counties)
are compared. Analysis by means of nonparametric correlation coefficients indicates that there is no significant correlation
between objective indicators and subjective perceptions, except in Education and Environmental Quality. Objective indicators
of Environmental Quality (air pollution and garbage) are positively correlated with subjective satisfaction with residential
environment. But inexplicably, higher levels of literacy and educational achievement are negatively correlated with satisfaction
with the educational system. It may be considered that disparity in either average objective conditions or in average subjective
perceptions may not adequately depict quality of life differences.
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Pei-shan LiaoEmail: |
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Most research on the non-economic quality of life have been (a) on a national level or performed on cross-country comparisons,
and/or (b) used subjective indicators to measure how people perceive their non-economic quality of life. In this paper, our
main contribution is to construct objective indicators of the non-economic quality of life for 354 sub-national magisterial
districts in South Africa. We also compare changes in these indicators over time, and consider methodological issues in the
construction of objective indicators of non-economic quality of life. We find that although income does matter for the overall
quality of life, non-income components of the quality of life can make an important difference. We find a number of places
with low incomes that have been able to achieve higher than expected outcomes in terms of the non-economic quality of life,
and that some of the relative income poor areas have improved their non-economic ranking between 1996 and 2004. We also find
that the geographical/environmental quality of life in South Africa is better in non-urban areas, where fewer of the country’s
population is residing. Significant improvements in the overall quality of life may be achieved through improvements in the
urban natural environment.
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Wim NaudéEmail: |
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Suzanne L. Slocum-Gori Bruno D. Zumbo Alex C. Michalos Ed Diener 《Social indicators research》2009,92(3):489-496
A case is made that measures used in quality of life and happiness research will be essentially unidimensional: inherently
tapping minor dimensions. This is illustrated using Diener’s Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS). It is shown that the SWLS
does not meet the standard of strict unidimensionality, but that the interpretation of the total scale score is not compromised
because the additional dimensions are relatively minor. In the context of the example, a multi-step strategy is described
that allows researchers to test for essential unidimensionality. Throughout the article, essential unidimensionality is contrasted
with the received view of strict unidimensionality and confirmatory factor analysis methods.
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Bruno D. ZumboEmail: |
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This study used a nationally representative sample of young people in Germany from the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine
how demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the young persons and their parents, personality traits of the young
persons, quality and quantity of relationships, the parent's level of life satisfaction, and other measures of satisfaction
for the young person are related to the initial assessment of life satisfaction by the individual at the critical point of
transition from adolescence to adulthood. The results indicated that consistency existed across different domains of satisfaction,
specifically satisfaction with life and satisfaction with grades. A strong pattern of association was also observed between
the subjective well-being of the adolescents and variables that measured different dimensions of the quality and quantity
of interpersonal relationships, including relationships with parents.
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Eileen TrzcinskiEmail: |
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This study reviewed three philosophical accounts of happiness, and then tested those accounts with the Asiabarometer surveys
conducted in six Confucian societies during the summer of 2006. Statistical analyses of these surveys reveal that East Asians
tend to experience happiness to a greater extent when they experience enjoyment together with achievement and/or satisfaction.
The preponderance of such multi-dimensional conceptions in all those societies poses a direct challenge to a single dimensional
account of happiness in the West. The analyses also reveal that positive assessments of interpersonal relationships matter
more than the amount of knowledge or wealth in living a happy life in Confucian societies.
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Doh Chull Shin (Corresponding author)Email: |
Takashi InoguchiEmail: |
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Akira Yakita 《Journal of population economics》2006,19(3):579-592
We examine the effect of an increase in life expectancy on portfolio choices of individuals and, thereby, on economic growth in a simple endogenous growth model populated by overlapping generations, in which money is introduced based on the money-in-the-utility-function approach. It is shown that an increase in longevity raises the balanced growth rate and lowers the inflation rate, offsetting the Tobin effect, if spillovers from accumulated capital to labor productivity sufficiently raise wage income and real savings, and, if not, it may retard economic growth and aggravate inflation. Under plausible conditions, the former will be the case.
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Akira YakitaEmail: |