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Subjective Well-Being: Keeping Up with the Perception of the Joneses
Guven, Cahit; Sørensen, Bent - In: Social Indicators Research 109 (2012) 3, pp. 439-469
-reported happiness. Reference group income negatively relates to own happiness and high perceptions about own relative income, quality of … dwelling, and social class relate positively and very significantly to happiness. Perceptions about income and status matter …
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Sex and the Pursuit of Happiness: How Other People’s Sex Lives are Related to our Sense of Well-Being
Wadsworth, Tim - In: Social Indicators Research 116 (2014) 1, pp. 115-135
-reported happiness. Why these characteristics matter has been less examined. Scholars have recently demonstrated that part of the effect … role of relative comparison in the study of happiness has been limited to income. The current work extends this focus to … their cohort, influences their happiness. The findings suggest that happiness is positively correlated with their own sexual …
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The Impact of Adaptive Preferences on Subjective Indicators: An Analysis of Poverty Indicators
Crettaz, Eric; Suter, Christian - In: Social Indicators Research 114 (2013) 1, pp. 139-152
Subjective indicators are often criticized since they are thought to be particularly affected by the phenomenon of adaptive preferences and social comparison. For social policy purposes, processes of downward adaptation in disadvantaged individuals are of particular importance, i.e., it is...
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Ways by which Comparable Income Affects Life Satisfaction in Hong Kong
Cheung, Chau-kiu; Leung, Kwan-kwok - In: Social Indicators Research 87 (2008) 1, pp. 169-187
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The Need to Provide for Security in Old Age in Hierarchy of Needs – An Estimation of its Ranking Within the Polish Population
Roszkiewicz, Malgorzata - In: Social Indicators Research 69 (2004) 2, pp. 199-218
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Relatively Different? How do Gender Differences in Well-Being Depend on Paid and Unpaid Work in Europe?
Boye, Katarina - In: Social Indicators Research 93 (2009) 3, pp. 509-525
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Poverty and Subjective Poverty in Rural China
Wang, Hanjie; Zhao, Qiran; Bai, Yunli; Zhang, Linxiu; … - In: Social Indicators Research 150 (2020) 1, pp. 219-242
China is undergoing a campaign which is called “The Targeted Poverty Alleviation Policy” to eradicate extreme poverty from rural China until 2020. Though poverty in rural China has been studied intensively in different objective dimensions, little attention has been paid to poverty line...
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On the Sunny Side of Life: Sunshine Effects on Life Satisfaction
Kämpfer, Sylvia; Mutz, Michael - In: Social Indicators Research 110 (2013) 2, pp. 579-595
This paper seeks to analyze the influence of the weather on a person’s self-reported life satisfaction. On a theoretical level, it is claimed that ‘nice’ weather can improve the affective well-being of a person. Given this, it is argued that affects can, in turn, have an impact on that...
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The Efficacy of Positive Psychology Interventions to Increase Well-Being and the Role of Mental Imagery Ability
Odou, Natasha; Vella-Brodrick, Dianne - In: Social Indicators Research 110 (2013) 1, pp. 111-129
This study examined the effects of mental imagery ability (MIA) on the efficacy of two positive psychology interventions (PPIs) to enhance well-being. Participants (N = 210) were randomly assigned to either: Three Good Things (TGT), Best Possible Selves (BPS), or a control group and completed...
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The Complex Road to Happiness: The Influence of Human Development, a Healthy Environment and a Free Press
Tandoc, Edson; Takahashi, Bruno - In: Social Indicators Research 113 (2013) 1, pp. 537-550
Happiness is considered one of the goals of individuals and nations. Thus, many interdisciplinary efforts have … attempted to determine the factors that lead to happiness. However, most of these efforts have ignored some important but less … with the assumptions that the road to happiness is not direct. It is a complex path where different forms of capital …
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