Evaluating Comparability of Survey Data on Subjective Well-being

2017 ◽  
pp. 157-184
Author(s):  
Ingebjørg Kristoffersen
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being

scholarly journals Vulnerability to Negative Life Events: Unemployment and Loss of a Spouse in Japan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsushi Ishida ◽  
Yutaka Maeda
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Younger Men ◽  
Potential Damage ◽  
Vulnerability Score

The purposes of this study are to introduce the idea of a vulnerability score for measuring the potential damage from negative life events as socially embedded hazards, and to show analytical examples of this by using the SSM 2015 data, which is Japanese national survey data. In the analysis, we apply the statistical method of causal inference for estimating the degree of vulnerability to negative life events from cross-sectional social survey data and define the vulnerability score as this measurement of vulnerability. We analyze the SSM survey data to assess people's vulnerability in terms of household income and subjective well-being in response to negative life events, such as unemployment and loss of a spouse, and reveal differences based on gender, age, and educational attainment.As for unemployment, we find from the analyses that both men and women who are around 40 years old and has less education face the most severe risk of damaging household income, while younger men are at severe risk of damaging their subjective well-being through the event. As for loss of a spouse, we found that women are more vulnerable than men in terms of objective well-being, while men are more vulnerable than women in terms of subjective well-being.

scholarly journals Online survey data of public subjective well-being on high occupancy vehicle lane in China

Data in Brief ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 862-867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shunxi Li ◽  
Bowen Su ◽  
Pang-Chieh Sui ◽  
Guofang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being

scholarly journals Subjective Well-being and Its Determinants in China: An Empirical Study Based on Survey Data

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaling Liang ◽  
Junyi Shen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
The Past ◽  
Household Survey Data

<p>Using household survey data collected in 2013, this paper empirically investigates the determinants of individual subjective well-being in China, where there has been rapid economic development over the past three decades. The main results are as follows. First, factors such as good health, marital status, life satisfaction, body mass index, physical exercise, and expectations of inflation are all significantly correlated with the reported level of happiness. Second, income has no significant effect on the level of happiness, and happiness has an inverted U-shaped relationship to wealth. Third, increased education decreases the level of happiness. To some extent, these findings can explain why subjective well-being has declined in China, despite its spectacular economic growth. </p>

Representation, Corruption, and Subjective Well-Being

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (12) ◽  
pp. 1607-1630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margit Tavits
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
National Data ◽  
Economic Variables ◽  
Cross National

This study examines the effect of corruption and representation on people's subjective well-being. Using cross-national data from 68 countries and survey data from 16 European democracies, the analysis demonstrates that people report higher levels of subjective well-being when (a) their governments perform well (i.e., are clean rather than corrupt) and (b) the party of their choice is in power. The effect of corruption overshadows that of macro-economic variables and conditions the effect of representation—having one's party of choice in power increases well-being when governments are clean but not when they are corrupt. These findings provide strong and systematic evidence that governments can have a significant impact on people's well-being.

Conflict Avoidance in Old Age

GeroPsych ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lia Oberhauser ◽  
Andreas B. Neubauer ◽  
Eva-Marie Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Conflict Avoidance ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Adult Lifespan ◽  
Set Up

Abstract. Conflict avoidance increases across the adult lifespan. This cross-sectional study looks at conflict avoidance as part of a mechanism to regulate belongingness needs ( Sheldon, 2011 ). We assumed that older adults perceive more threats to their belongingness when they contemplate their future, and that they preventively react with avoidance coping. We set up a model predicting conflict avoidance that included perceptions of future nonbelonging, termed anticipated loneliness, and other predictors including sociodemographics, indicators of subjective well-being and perceived social support (N = 331, aged 40–87). Anticipated loneliness predicted conflict avoidance above all other predictors and partially mediated the age-association of conflict avoidance. Results suggest that belongingness regulation accounts may deepen our understanding of conflict avoidance in the second half of life.

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