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Testing the Relationship Between Parents’ and Their Children’s Subjective Well-Being
Casas, Ferran; Coenders, Germà; González, Mònica; … - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 13 (2012) 6, pp. 1031-1051
Casas et al. (J Happiness Stud 9(2):197–205, <CitationRef CitationID="CR8">2008</CitationRef>) found no significant relationship between paired answers given by parents and their 12–16-year-old children (N = 266) for a single-item scale on overall life satisfaction (OLS). However, a significant, but low (.19) parent–child...</citationref>
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The Benefits of Believing in Chance or Fate: External Locus of Control as a Protective Factor for Coping with the Death of a Spouse
Specht, Jule; Egloff, Boris; Schmukle, Stefan C. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
The death of a spouse is an extremely stressful life event that consequently causes a large drop in life satisfaction. Reactivity to the loss, however, varies markedly, a phenomenon that is currently not well understood. Because lack of controllability essentially contributes to the stressful...
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Some Like It Mild and Not Too Wet: The Influence of Weather on Subjective Well-Being
Connolly, Marie - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 14 (2013) 2, pp. 457-473
should be aware of the potential biasing effects of the weather on their estimates. In this paper, the responsiveness of well …-being to climate and transitory weather conditions is investigated by analyzing subjective well-being data collected in the … men to the weather, and life satisfaction decreases with the amount of rain on the day of the interview. Low temperatures …
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Subjective Well-Being: Weather Matters; Climate Doesn't
Metcalfe, Robert; Feddersen, John; Wooden, Mark - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
We investigate the impact of short-term weather and long-term climate on self-reported life satisfaction using panel … data. We find robust evidence that day-to-day weather variation impacts life satisfaction by a similar magnitude to … present evidence that weather bias arises because of the cognitive challenge of reporting life satisfaction. Consistent with …
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Some Like It Mild and Not Too Wet: the Influence of Weather on Subjective Well-Being
Pray, Marie Connolly - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2011
should be aware of the potential biasing effects of the weather on their estimates. In this paper, I investigate the … responsiveness of well-being to climate and transitory weather conditions by analyzing subjective well-being data collected in the … responsive than men to the weather, and that life satisfaction decreases with the amount of rain on the day of the interview. Low …
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Weather as a transient influence on survey-reported satisfaction with life
Barrington-Leigh, Christopher P - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Local weather conditions experienced by survey respondents on the day of the interview are used to assess the size of …
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Lebenszufriedenheit und Wohlbefinden in Deutschland: Studie zur Konstruktion eines Lebenszufriedenheitsindikators
Suntum, Ulrich van; Prinz, Aloys; Uhde, Nicole - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
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Zur Konstruktion eines Lebenszufriedenheitsindikators ("Glücks-BIP") für Deutschland
Suntum, Ulrich van - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
Trotz steigender Wirtschaftsleistung hat sich die Lebenszufriedenheit in Deutschland seit Beginn der 90er Jahre nicht erhöht, in Westdeutschland ist sie sogar gesunken. Mehr materieller Wohlstand bedeutet also nicht automatisch mehr Wohlstand im Sinne von Lebensglück. Was aber sind dann die...
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Country-specific life satisfaction effects of unemployment: Does labour market policy matter?
Wulfgramm, Melike - Zentrum für Sozialpolitik, Universität Bremen - 2012
Public policy shapes the lives of individuals, and even more so if they depend on state support. But to what extent can well-being differences between individuals living in different European states be traced back to the specific national public policy designs? This paper tests the intervening...
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Sociability, Altruism and Subjective Well-Being
Becchetti, Leonardo; Corrado, Luisa; Conzo, Pierluigi - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2013
We provide non experimental evidence of the relevance of sociability on subjective wellbeing by investigating the determinants of life satisfaction on a large sample of Europeans aged above 50. We document that voluntary work, religious attendance, helping friends/neighbours and participation to...
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