Ten of the post-communist countries managed to integrate into EU. Which are the subjective outcomes of socio-economic transformations in these countries? Did they manage to increase their citizens’ happiness in this process? To give an answer to these questions I used data from Candidate...

Life satisfaction, an overall evaluation of one’s life, is increasingly used as an indicator to guide social policy and to evaluate social change. This measure gives a global assessment of the societal changes effects of transition on average people, filtered through their attitudes and...

Life satisfaction, a global cognitive evaluation of one’s life, is a very frequently used indicator in quality of life research. This construct is usually measured by simple scales, differing one from another by the phrasing of questions and by the number of answer categories. Giving the need...