The structure of subjective well-being in nine western societies
dc.contributor.author | Andrews, Frank M. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Inglehart, Ronald F. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T13:42:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T13:42:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1979-01 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Andrews, Frank M.; Inglehart, Ronald F.; (1979). "The structure of subjective well-being in nine western societies." Social Indicators Research 6(1): 73-90. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/43699> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0303-8300 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-0921 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/43699 | |
dc.description.abstract | The structure of subjective well-being is analyzed by multidimensional mapping of evaluations of life concerns. For example, one finds that evaluations of Income are close to (i.e., relatively strongly related to) evaluations of Standard of living, but remote from (weakly related to) evaluations of Health. These structures show how evaluations of life components fit together and hence illuminate the psychological meaning of life quality. They can be useful for determining the breadth of coverage and degree of redundancy of social indicators of perceived well-being. Analyzed here are data from representative sample surveys in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, and the United States (each N≈1000). Eleven life concerns are considered, including Income, Housing, Job, Health, Leisure, Neighborhood, Transportation, and Relations with other people. It is found that structures in all of these countries have a basic similarity and that the European countries tend to be more similar to one another than they are to USA. These results suggest that comparative research on subjective well-being is feasible within this group of nations. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3115 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Public Health/Gesundheitswesen | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Quality of Life Research | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Microeconomics | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Sociology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Social Sciences, General | en_US |
dc.title | The structure of subjective well-being in nine western societies | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | History (General) | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Social Work | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Social Sciences (General) | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Humanities | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Anbor, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Anbor, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43699/1/11205_2004_Article_BF00305437.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00305437 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Social Indicators Research | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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