Are all Life Domains Created Equal? Domain Importance Weighting in Subjective Well-Being Research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang-ming Hsieh
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Life Domains ◽  
Importance Weighting ◽  
Domain Importance

Validity of Importance Weighting in Subjective Well-Being Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-222
Author(s):  
Chang-ming Hsieh ◽  
Qiguang Li
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Life Domains ◽  
Chinese Adults ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Importance Weighting ◽  
The Many

The practice of giving certain life domains (such as health, family life) more weight in calculating an overall score, known as importance weighting, has been a subject of debate in subjective well-being (SWB) research for decades. In this paper, we present evidence by analyzing data from 513 Chinese adults to caution readers that findings of importance weighting in the SWB studies should be interpreted carefully. Given the many unsettled issues in assessing importance weighting, findings are often not clear-cut or definitive and overgeneralization can mislead our understanding of well-being. Future research on the topic of importance weighting should acknowledge study assumptions and limitations to avoid potential overgeneralization of findings.

scholarly journals The Role of Psychological Well-Being and Life Satisfaction in Perception of Daily Stress

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-26
Author(s):  
L.A. Golovey ◽  
M.D. Petrash ◽  
O.Y. Strizhitskaya ◽  
S.S. Savenysheva ◽  
I.R. Murtazina
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Daily Hassles ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Life Domains ◽  
Financial Health ◽  
Satisfaction Scale ◽  
Psychological Well Being

The present paper considers daily hassles in different life domains, reveals their connections to the level of strain and perceived stress, investigates the role of psychological well-being and life satisfaction in the perception of the number of stressors and strain caused by stress. Methods: Inventory of daily stressors (Petrash et al.), Scale of perceived stress (Ababkov et al.), Psychological well-being scale (C. Ryff), Life satisfaction scale (E. Diener), a survey on satisfaction with different life domains. Sample: 334 adults aged 20—60 (118 males, 216 females). Results revealed hassles in all the life domains. Most pronounced hassles in women were those related to health, loneliness, competitiveness, job; most pronounced hassles in men were job-related, financial, health and family stressors. Perception of daily hassles was associated with an increase in the levels of stress overstrain and perceived stress. The number of stressors and the level of overstrain was higher in women. Psychological well-being, subjective well-being, and financial satisfaction were shown to be direct positive predictors of the number of perceived hassles and the level of overstrain.

scholarly journals Exploring the Association between Life Perceptions and Emotional Profiles in Taiwan: Empirical Evidence from the National Well-Being Indicators Survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 4209
Author(s):  
Mei-Yin Kuan ◽  
Jiun-Hao Wang ◽  
Yu-Chang Liou ◽  
Li-Pei Peng
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Life Domains ◽  
Least Squares Regression

Most of the studies on subjective well-being have focused on positive emotions. The adverse effect of negative emotions on mental health has been overlooked. This study investigates the extent to which specific life perceptions are associated with emotional profiles, and explores relevant factors that effectively enhance subjective well-being. The data were drawn from 4656 respondents in the 2015 National Well-being Indicators Survey in Taiwan. T-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation, and ordinary least squares regression were conducted. The results reveal that perceptions of all life domains are positively associated with life satisfaction and happiness. Depression and worry are negatively associated with most of the life perceptions, except for environmental quality. These results demonstrate that the emotional profile approach sheds light on current literature on subjective well-being, and suggests that strategies to increase well-being should take positive and negative emotion into account simultaneously. The findings contribute by confirming which life domains can produce the best or worst outcomes in emotional regulation and positively influence mental health. Given that personal safety and the future security of external types is the most crucial factor within the emotional profiles, social welfare and protection programs would be an important strategy to increase subjective well-being.

scholarly journals SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING OF YOUNG MEN WITH EXTREMISTIC ATTITUDES

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 173-180
Author(s):  
S.M. Sityaeva ◽  
◽  
S.V. Yaremchuk ◽  
O.A. Orlova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Life Domains ◽  
High Level

This paper focuses on the empirical study of the satisfaction with different life domains of young men aged 14 to 30 with varying degrees of extremist attitudes. The purpose of this study is to analyze the specifics of the personal and national subjective well-being of young men with high level of extremist attitudes

scholarly journals The age and subjective well-being paradox revisited:A multidimensional perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Hansen ◽  
Britt Slagsvold
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Older Age ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Life Domains ◽  
Age Variations ◽  
Young Old

This study re-examines the much-discussed paradox that although aging is associated with declines in many life domains, overall subjective well-being does not appear to decline sharply with age. We use data from two waves of the Norwegian NorLAG study (age 40-85, n=3,750) and examine age differences in change in well-being outcomes (life satisfaction, positive affect, negative affect, and depression) and factors that may account for age variations in such change. Outcomes show stability well into older age, but negative changes in advanced age, cross-sectionally or longitudinally. Life satisfaction and negative affect are adversely related to older age longitudinally, whereas positive affect and depression are adversely related to older age in the cross-section. Results are similar for men and women. Loss of health and partner are the main causes of declining well-being in older age. Findings suggest qualifications to the “well-being paradox”, e.g.: only some dimensions of SWB remain stable, while others decline; across dimensions SWB change is more negative in old-old than in young-old age.

scholarly journals Comparing global reports of subjective well-being to experiential measures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Common Method ◽  
Global Evaluation ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Life Domains ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Overall Evaluation

Subjective well-being (SWB) is an overall evaluation of the quality of a person’slife from his or her own perspective. One common method of assessing thisconstruct requires respondents to think about their life as a whole and to providea “global” evaluation that summarizes across life domains or affective experiencesover extended periods of time. The validity of these global measures has beenchallenged, however; and experiential measures, which ask respondents to reporton their momentary evaluative experiences many times over a constrained timeperiod, have been suggested as a more valid alternative. This paper addresses theempirical evidence for one important challenge to global measures: the possibilitythat temporarily salient information overwhelmingly influences global judgments,reducing their reliability and validity. This paper critiques prior evidence for thischallenge and presents new concerns about the assumed validity of the proposedalternative: experiential measures.

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