Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
The pursuit of happiness
"Contemporary cross-cultural comparisons of life satisfaction show that survey research, by going to the people broadly and representatively, is a crucial complement to ethnography. Using the survey approach, the present article poses the following research question: is happiness driven more by economic or psychological factors? This question is investigated in the English and German populations with the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), and the European Social Survey (ESS). The results of the present study show that English and German life satisfaction follow different time trends and have different compositions. Both are driven more by psychological than economic factors, but Germans are more economically sensitive. The R2=.59, achieved here for explaining English happiness, appears to be the highest yet recorded in the quality-of-life literature. This English R2 increases to .78 when a personality effect is included in the multiple-item predictor. Moreover, in the financial, housing and medical spheres of experience subjective representations of physical variables, rather than the physical scales themselves, are the operational determinants of life satisfaction. Finally, an important methodological result emerges in the present study; namely, ordinary regression of cardinal satisfaction scales can replace logistic regression inrevealing the values of a nation." (author's abstract)
- Weitere Titel
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Das Streben nach Glück
- ISSN
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1864-3361
- Umfang
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Seite(n): 109-120
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Erschienen in
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Survey Research Methods, 1(2)
- Thema
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Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Großbritannien
psychische Faktoren
Zufriedenheit
Glück
wirtschaftliche Faktoren
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bechtel, Timothy G.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wo)
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Deutschland
- (wann)
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2007
- DOI
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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21.06.2024, 16:26 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- Bechtel, Timothy G.
Entstanden
- 2007
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