The Anatomy of Subjective Well-Being

By Haibo Li, Guoqiang Shen. Resilient and Friendly Living Environments, 2003

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This paper contributes to the literature on subjective well-being (SWB) by taking into account different aspects of life, called domains, such as health, financial situation, job, leisure, housing, and environment. We postulate a two-layer model where individual total SWB depends on the different subjective domain satisfactions. A distinction is made between long-term and short-term effects. The individual domain satisfactions depend on objectively measurable variables, such as income. The model is estimated using a large German panel data set.

Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Health

1. C. Bickerton
2. Victoria Ateca-Amestoy
3. Esperanza Vera‐Toscano
4. D. Wheatley

In Social Psychology

1. C. Bickerton
2. Victoria Ateca-Amestoy
3. Esperanza Vera‐Toscano
4. D. Wheatley

In Sociology and Political Science

1. C. Bickerton
2. Victoria Ateca-Amestoy
3. Esperanza Vera‐Toscano
4. D. Wheatley
5. Eurofound

Citations in the corpus

• Subjective well-being and engagement in arts, culture and sport (2017, methodology): “As there is an inherent ordering to the dependent variables, and an assumption that the same response by different individuals represents a similar level of satisfaction (van Praag et al. 2003: 34), these models provide an appropriate method of analysis.”
• The relevance of social interactions on housing satisfaction (2008, background): “For instance, a survey in the United States (Campbell et al. 1976), although rather dated, found that for most people housing satisfaction ranks fourth after financial situation, leisure activities and, job status on the perceived and actual importance of different sources of overall satisfaction in”