Relational Goods, Sociability, and Happiness
By Leonardo Becchetti, Alessandra Pelloni, F. Rossetti. Social Science Research Network, 2008
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The role of sociability and relational goods has generally been neglected in the formulation of standard economics textbook preferences. Our findings show that relational goods have significant and positive effects on self declared life satisfaction, net of the impact of other concurring factors. We also document that such effects persist when the equally significant inverse causality nexus is taken into account. This implies that a more intense relational life enhances life satisfaction and, at the same time, happier people have a more lively social life. Finally, we show that gender, age and education matter by showing that the effects of sociability on happiness are stronger for women, older and less educated individuals.
Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Happier and less isolated: internet use in old age (2012, neutral): “Becchetti, L., A. Pelloni and F. Rossetti (2008).”
- Is it Pleasure or Health from Leisure that We Benefit from Most? An Analysis of Well-Being Alternatives and Implications for Policy (2016, methodology): “…well-being and health, but, significantly that there are impacts on the former through the relational and social nature of the activity independently of an explicit focus on health (for example Becchetti et al., 2008; Becchetti et al., 2011; Downward and Rasciute, 2011 and Becchetti et al., 2012).”
- Conceptualization and Measurement of Virtuous Leadership: Doing Well by Doing Good (2016, background): “These variables may influence perceptions concerning ethical behavior (Brown et al., 2005), role effectiveness (Hooijberg et al., 2010; Neufeld et al., 2010), happiness and life satisfaction (Becchetti et al., 2008; Kim and Kim, 2009).”