scholarly journals LABORATORY EVIDENCE FOR EMOTIONAL EXTERNALITIES: AN ESSAY IN HONOR OF EJ MISHAN

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (03) ◽  
pp. 1640015 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL SGROI ◽  
EUGENIO PROTO ◽  
ANDREW J. OSWALD ◽  
ALEXANDER DOBSON
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Negative Affects ◽  
Intuitive Idea ◽  
New Form ◽  
Open Question ◽  
Life Evaluations

Professor EJ Mishan was a world expert on the idea of externalities. In this paper, we provide evidence for the intuitive idea of “emotional externalities”. These might be viewed as psychological spillovers from the well-being of one person upon the well-being of another. A new form of laboratory experiment is implemented. “Happiness” answers are elicited in the first few seconds of the experiment. Tragic life events — like family illness and bereavement — are then studied. The paper documents evidence consistent with a powerful caring-about-others effect. The paper’s results also suggest an approximate equivalence between life-satisfaction data and happiness data. Statistical offices should incorporate questions to capture people’s life evaluations, hedonic experiences and priorities … All these aspects of subjective well-being (cognitive evaluations, positive affects and negative affects) should be measured separately to get a satisfactory appreciation of people’s lives. Which of these aspects matters more, and for what purpose, is still an open question. Stiglitz et al., Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, 2009

scholarly journals The Empirics of Social Progress: The Interplay between Subjective Well-Being and Societal Performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 477-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Fehder ◽  
Michael Porter ◽  
Scott Stern
Keyword(s):  
Economic Performance ◽  
Relative Income ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Basic Human Needs ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Direct Measures

Though economists have long recognized that GDP is not by itself a measure of societal well-being, most GDP alternatives incorporate direct measures of economic performance. We propose instead an independently constructed measure, a social progress index, focusing exclusively on noneconomic dimensions of societal performance, highlighting three core dimensions—basic human needs, foundations of well-being, and opportunity. GDP and social progress are correlated but distinct, the social progress dimension least related to GDP (opportunity) is strongly related to subjective well-being, and the relationship between social progress and well-being is greater for individuals at lower relative income and educational attainment.

Do National Service Programs Improve Subjective Well-Being in Communities?

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristopher Velasco ◽  
Pamela Paxton ◽  
Robert W. Ressler ◽  
Inbar Weiss ◽  
Lilla Pivnick
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Change Score ◽  
National Service ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Community Effects ◽  
Service Programs ◽  
Open Question ◽  
New Evidence

Since the creation of Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) in 1964 and AmeriCorps in 1993, a stated goal of national service programs has been to strengthen the overall health of communities across the United States. But whether national service programs have such community effects remains an open question. Using longitudinal cross-lagged panel and change-score models from 2005 to 2013, this study explores whether communities with national service programs exhibit greater subjective well-being. We use novel measures of subjective well-being derived from tweeted expressions of emotions, engagement, and relationships in 1,347 U.S. counties. Results show that national service programs improve subjective well-being primarily by mitigating threats to well-being and communities that exhibit more engagement are better able to attract national service programs. Although limited in size, these persistent effects are robust to multiple threats to inference and provide important new evidence on how national service improves communities in the United States.

scholarly journals If, Why, and When Subjective Well-Being Influences Health, and Future Needed Research

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Francis Diener
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Open Question ◽  
Do So

We review evidence on whether subjective well-being (SWB) can influence health, why it might do so, and what we know about the conditions where this is more or less likely to occur. This review also explores how various methodological approaches inform the study of the connections between subjective well-being and health and longevity outcomes. Our review of this growing literature indicates areas where data are substantial and where much more research is needed. We conclude that SWB can sometimes influence health, and review a number of reasons why it does so. A key open question is when it does and does not do so – in terms of populations likely to be affected, types of SWB that are most influential (including which might be harmful), and types of health and illnesses that are most likely to be affected. We also describe additional types of research that are now much needed in this burgeoning area of interest, for example, cross-cultural studies, animal research, and experimental interventions designed to raise long-term SWB and assess the effects on physical health. This research area is characterized both by potentially extremely important findings, and also by pivotal research issues and questions.

scholarly journals Subjective well-being and life-events among Japanese middle-aged and elderly

2010 ◽  
Vol 74 (0) ◽  
pp. 3AM107-3AM107
Author(s):  
Chikako TANGE ◽  
Yukiko NISHITA ◽  
Masako MORIYAMA ◽  
Makiko TOMIDA ◽  
Satomi TSUBOI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Middle Aged

scholarly journals A Person-Centered Approach to Resilience and Vulnerability in Emerging Adulthood: Predictions From Parenting and Personality in Adolescence

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna de Maat ◽  
Nicole Lucassen ◽  
Rebecca Shiner ◽  
Peter Prinzie
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Latent Profile Analysis ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Mothers And Fathers

In this person-centered study, we identified different profiles of resilience and vulnerability in emerging adulthood in response to previously experienced stressful life events. Additionally, we examined whether mothers’ and fathers’ parenting and participants’ personality traits in adolescence predicted these profiles. Data from the Flemish Study on Parenting, Personality, and Development (N = 346 families) were used. At T1 (2004; Mage = 11 years), T2 (2007), and T3 (2009), mothers and fathers reported on their parenting and their child’s personality. At T4 (2018; Mage = 25 years), emerging adults retrospectively self-reported the occurrence and impact of 22 stressful life events and rated current behavior problems and subjective well-being. Latent profile analysis revealed three profiles: Competent (71%; low stress, low behavior problems, high subjective well-being), Vulnerable (21%; average stress, high behavior problems, low subjective well-being), and Resilient (9%; high stress, average behavior problems, average subjective well-being). Emerging adults in the Resilient profile had experienced higher levels of maternal positive parenting and were less emotionally stable and conscientious than those in the Competent profile. Furthermore, emerging adults in the Vulnerable profile were less emotionally stable than their peers in the Competent profile. These findings reveal new insights into the heterogeneous patterns of emerging adults’ adaptation following stressful life events.

Spatial Analysis of Subjective Well-Being Levels and Corruption across Regions in Kyrgyzstan

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmut Erdoğan ◽  
Ainura Turdalieva ◽  
Raziya Abdiyeva
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Medical Treatments ◽  
Personal Perceptions

Nowadays corruption becomes a universal phenomenon, which reduces the productivity of public administration, and causes harm to countries’ economic and social development. Consequently, it influences economic performance of Kyrgyzstan. The aim of this study is to visualize the spatial distribution of subjective well-being levels of individuals and personal perceptions and attitude towards corruption in 2016 by using the data provided by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on district (rayon) level in Kyrgyzstan. The findings of this paper show that there is positive spatial autocorrelation for unofficial payments or gifts to road police, public education, and receive medical treatments. Similarly, local government representatives, tax officials, police and judges have higher Moran’s I scores. In addition, obtained results from analysis will help to understand issues related to corruption in Kyrgyzstan.

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