scholarly journals Social Capital and Subjective Well-Being in Malaysia

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Norafisha Kamarudin ◽  
Siew Hwa Yen ◽  
Kok Fong See
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Probit Regression ◽  
World Value Survey ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Linking Social Capital ◽  
Using Data

The objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between different forms of social capital and subjective well-being in Malaysia. Subjective well-being is observed based on two aspects: happiness and life satisfaction. The analysis using data from the World Value Survey with 1300 respondents. Based on the ordered probit regression analysis, it is found that bonding and linking social capital contribute to happiness. Happiness also increases for those who are more active in associations. However, bridging social capital based on trust of people from other religion and ethnic group as well as people whom an individual does not know have adverse contribution to happiness. Only linking social capital has a positive relationship with life satisfaction. In terms of religiosity, importance of God seems to have positive relationship with both happiness and life satisfaction. Other factors such as health status, income, marital status and education also have the influence on Malaysians’ happiness and life satisfaction levels.

Relationships with Grandparents and Grandchildren’s Well-being after Parental Divorce

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 757-771 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maaike Jappens ◽  
Jan Van Bavel
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Parental Divorce ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Good Relationship ◽  
Family Crisis ◽  
Depressive Feelings ◽  
Using Data

Abstract Grandparents are often considered as providing important resources in times of family crisis. Little is known, however, about the influence of grandparents on the well-being of grandchildren after parental divorce. This article investigates the association between the quality of relationships with grandparents and grandchildren’s subjective well-being. Using data from the study ‘Divorce in Flanders’, the authors compare 567 grandchildren with divorced and 238 with married parents regarding four indicators of subjective well-being (life satisfaction, self-esteem, mastery, and depressive feelings) and also examine variation within the group with divorced parents. Results show that the strength of grandchild–grandparent relationships is positively associated with grandchildren’s subjective well-being and that having a very good relationship with a grandparent matters even more for grandchildren whose parents have divorced. Moreover, grandchildren who experience frequent conflicts between divorced parents seem to benefit most from close grandparent relationships.

Economic and Cultural Correlates of Subjective Well-Being in Countries Using Data from the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)

2010 ◽  
Vol 106 (3) ◽  
pp. 949-963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esma Gaygisiz
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Negative Experience ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Unequal Income Distribution

The correlations among indicators of objective well-being, cultural dimensions, and subjective well-being were investigated using Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) data from 35 countries. The subjective well-being measures included life satisfaction as well as six positive and six negative indexes of experience. Positive and negative experience scores were subjected to principal component analysis, and two positive experience components (labeled as “positive experiences” and “time management”) and two negative experience components (labeled as “pain, worry, and sadness” and “anger and boredom”) were extracted. Objective well-being included economic indicators, education, and health. The cultural variables included Hofstede's and Schwartz's cultural dimensions, national Big Five personality scores, and national IQs. High life satisfaction was positively related to Gross Domestic Product, life expectancy, education, individualism, affective and intellectual autonomy, egalitarianism, and conscientiousness, whereas low life satisfaction was related to unemployment, unequal income distribution, power distance, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, embeddedness, hierarchy, and neuroticism.

scholarly journals Singles in the city: happily ever after?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Riederer ◽  
Nina-Sophie Fritsch ◽  
Lena Seewann
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Living Alone ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Financial Situation ◽  
Households With Children ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The City

More people than ever are living in cities, and in these cities, more and more people are living alone. Using the example of Vienna, this paper investigates the subjective well-being of single households in the city. Previous research has identified positive and negative aspects of living alone (e.g., increased freedom vs. missing social embeddedness). We compare single households with other household types using data from the Viennese Quality of Life Survey (1995–2018). In our analysis, we consider overall life satisfaction as well as selected dimensions of subjective wellbeing (i.e., housing, financial situation, main activity, family, social contacts, leisure time). Our findings show that the subjective well-being of single households in Vienna is high and quite stable over time. While single households are found to have lower life satisfaction than two-adult households, this result is mainly explained by singles reporting lower satisfaction with family life. Compared to households with children, singles are more satisfied with their financial situation, leisure time and housing, which helps to offset the negative consequences of missing family ties (in particular with regard to single parents).

scholarly journals Heritage Engagement and Subjective Well-Being in the European Union

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9623
Author(s):  
Victoria Ateca-Amestoy ◽  
Anna Villarroya ◽  
Andreas J. Wiesand
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Probit Model ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Use Values ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

In this paper, we explore the relationship between different ways of getting engaged with cultural heritage and life satisfaction. Using data from a representative sample of the population of the 28 members of the European Union in 2017 collected in the Eurobarometer 88.1 (2017), we explore the relationship between use and non-use values and individual subjective well-being measured as life satisfaction. We present the results derived from the estimation of an ordered probit model where life satisfaction is a function of living near to heritage resources to represent non-use values, different ways of heritage participation (tangible, intangible, digital, and volunteering), and the usual explanatory variables that have been found to be predictors of life satisfaction. Our results indicate that the chances of being more satisfied with ones’ life increase with volunteering activities, with visits to heritage institutions, and with digital engagement. These findings contribute to a better understanding of the multifaceted values of heritage.

scholarly journals SOCIAL CAPITAL, TRUST, AND MULTIPLE EQUILIBRIA IN ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Growiec ◽  
Jakub Growiec
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Multiple Equilibria ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
High Equilibrium

We propose a novel mechanism giving rise to poverty traps and multiple equilibria in economic performance. It is a potentially important source of persistent underdevelopment across countries and regions. At the core of this mechanism, bridging social capital and social trust feed back on each other, interdependently affecting individuals' earnings and subjective well-being. High trust and abundant bridging social capital reinforce each other, leading to a “high” equilibrium where both these variables take persistently high values, and earnings and well-being are high as well, whereas low trust and lack of bridging social capital create a vicious circle, leading to a “low trust trap” where all these variables are persistently low. The workings of our theoretical model are in agreement with a wide range of findings from the contemporary literature in sociology and social psychology.

Democratic Institutions and Subjective Well-Being

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 685-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Altman ◽  
Patrick Flavin ◽  
Benjamin Radcliff
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Real World ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Robust Evidence

We examine how differences in how democracy is institutionalized affect life satisfaction across nations. To our knowledge, this is the first rigorous, systematic study of this subject. Using data for 21 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries from 1981 to 2008, we find robust evidence that citizens report living more satisfying lives in countries with a parliamentary (rather than presidential) executive, a proportional representation electoral system (as opposed to single member districts), and a unitary (rather than federal) governmental structure. Moreover, the findings suggest that the real-world consequences for these types of democratic institutions for human well-being are substantial, rivaling or exceeding other common predictors. We conclude with a discussion of the practical and theoretical implications of the results.

scholarly journals The Dynamics of Online Activities and Its Impact on Well-Being in Urban China

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinxuan Huang
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Rural Migrants ◽  
Online Activities ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact

Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, this study examines the socioeconomic characteristics of Internet users, as well as the relationships between the dynamics of different forms of online activities and the subjective well-being of urbanites and rural migrants in urban China. The study finds that online behaviour may clearly reflect differences in individuals’ personal traits and socioeconomic positions. Patterns of the association between online activities and subjective well-being tend to differ among rural migrants and urbanites, especially in terms of depression. A difference-in-differences model is employed to estimate the impact of intensified engagement in online activities on depression and life satisfaction from 2010 to 2016. The results show that increased frequency of online entertainment exhibits a comparatively positive effect on depression and life satisfaction. Spending more time on online social networking has a similar impact on rural migrants, but not on urbanites. These findings suggest that the rapid development of urban China’s online community has important implications for residents’ subjective well-being.

The Effect of Income Inequality on Happiness Inequality in India: A Recentered Influence Function Regression Estimation and Life Satisfaction Inequality Decomposition

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-181
Author(s):  
T. Lakshmanasamy ◽  
K. Maya
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Influence Function ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Inequality Decomposition ◽  
World Value Survey ◽  
Absolute Income ◽  
Happiness Level ◽  
Over Time

It is now an accepted stylised fact that increase in happiness level in any country is not commensurate with growth in income, a puzzle known as Easterlin Paradox. This paper analyses the income-happiness relationship in India and tries to explain the flat happiness response to income change in terms of rising income inequality. Income growth propels inequality and so also inequality in well-being. Empirically the effects of income inequality, absolute income, relative income, rank position and social capital indices are analysed using World Value Survey data for 12 states of India over 24 years from 1990 to 2014. As the variation in the 10-point scale measure of life satisfaction level is narrow, an recentered influence function (RIF) regression of variance and Gini of life satisfaction are estimated. The life satisfaction inequality is decomposed into composition and coefficients effects using Blinder–Oaxaca (B–O) decomposition method. The estimated RIF coefficients reveal significant effects on life satisfaction inequality of various income measures and social capital indices. The B–O decomposition shows that the functional relationship between material aspirations and life satisfaction, contribute significantly to rising life satisfaction inequality relative to changes over time in happiness influencing factors. Reducing income inequality and improving trust, sociability, health, education and employment over time and space could reduce life satisfaction inequality and improve happiness level in India.

Reconsidering the Importance of Social Capital for the Subjective Well-Being of Migrants in the Digital Era

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-550
Author(s):  
Diana Mariana Popa
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
East European ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Impact

Social capital is an often-used indicator when measuring and explaining the happiness or life satisfaction levels of migrants and it is frequently measured with the item “How often do you socially meet with friends, relatives or colleagues?”. Migration studies should reconsider the weight that social capital (measured according to the frequency of socially meeting relevant others) has in the subjective well-being of migrants seen that the paradigm of the uprooted migrant has been replaced by the paradigm of the connected migrant. The purpose of this article is to show that in the digital era, the subjective well-being of the connected migrant is not influenced by physically meeting friends, relatives and colleagues as much as it was for the uprooted migrant. As supporting case study, results about the impact of social capital on the life satisfaction of East European migrants are presented.

Race, Socioeconomic Status, and the Subjective Well-Being of Older Americans

1987 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brad McKenzie ◽  
James Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Older Americans ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Self Assessed Health ◽  
Intervening Variables

Causal examination of factors influencing life satisfaction among older Americans can provide knowledge important to social policy development. Using rotated factor analysis, this study isolates two dimensions of life satisfaction, labeled happiness and morale, using data from the 1981 Harris survey on aging. Race, SES characteristics, and the two intervening variables of self-assessed health status and problems experienced are tested through path analysis on the two attributes of life satisfaction. Most of the effects of race and SES are mediated by self-assessed health status and problems experienced, and these two intervening variables are the strongest direct predictors of happiness and morale. Of particular significance are results which demonstrate that racial background has a strong influence on problems experienced, and that education is more influential than income on the life satisfaction factors tested in this study.

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