A hybrid version of well-being: An attempt at operationalisation

Kwarciński, Tomasz; Ulman, Paweł

doi:10.15678/zp.2018.46.4.03

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“…The hybrid version of well-being (HWB) is a philosophically inspired attempt to overcome the weaknesses of both subjective and objective approaches to well-being (Kwarciński, Ulman, 2018). In particular, it aims to avoid a problem concerning the agent's autonomy protection, which is hard to tackle using objective list theories, and a personal adaptation problem, which is challenging for the defenders of subjective approaches to wellbeing, such as hedonism and preference fulfillment theories (Robeyns, 2017: 130-133).…”

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Quality of life paradox. Well-being ranking of the selected European countries based on hybrid well-being approach

Kwarciński¹,

Ulman²

2020

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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The paper aims to measure individual and social hybrid well-being, which takes into account the Quality of Life Paradox and compares the results of the selected European countries by creating a country ranking. The paradox refers to an existing disparity between the real quality of life experienced by people and their subjective state of being happy. The hybrid wellbeing approach is a philosophically inspired attempt to overcome the weaknesses of both subjective and objective well-being theories.Based on a multidimensional concept of well-being, which follows Sen and Nussbaum's capability approach, we have applied the fuzzy sets theory to data from the European Quality of Life Survey to calculate the objective well-being of people living in the selected European countries. Then we have measured fittingness of their objective to subjective well-being by the Fitting Index (FI). Finally, we have constructed the countries' ranking of well-being and compared it to other rankings based on happiness, functionings achievement, and GDP per capita. The analysis shows that the country ranking based on hybrid well-being differs from the one created on the basis of GDP per capita, and it is not perfectly correlated with other rankings. Therefore, this means that the hybrid well-being based ranking may contain additional information as compared to other rankings. The paper also indicates that citizens of wealthier countries, living in relatively highquality circumstances, do not have a lower level of subjective well-being (happiness) more often than their counterparts from the Eastern European countries.

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“…For this reason, seeking a measure of the fittingness of happiness to quality of life is worth the effort. We think that the hybrid version of well-being, as proposed by Kwarciński and Ulman (2018), may be a good approximation of this fittingness.…”

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Quality of life paradox. Well-being ranking of the selected European countries based on hybrid well-being approach

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Ulman²

2020

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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“…HWB is an openly normative measure of well-being -that is, it is based on the list of objective goods which are philosophically justified as worth wanting. Attempts have been made to operationalise this formula using, for instance, data from the European Quality of Life Survey (Kwarciński & Ulman 2018).…”

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On the Importance of the Philosophy of Well-being

Kwarciński

2019

KREM

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Objective: A weak approach to well-being policy means that government's goal should be to choose policies that make people better off over those that make them worse off, with other things being equal. The question is what kind of underlying assumptions should be fulfilled to achieve this goal. In particular, do policymakers have to agree on some substantive theory of well-being, like hedonism or objective list theory, or persist in choosing the formal preference satisfaction theory of well-being? According to Haybron and Tiberius (Well-being Policy: What Standard of Well-being?, "Journal of the American Philosophical Association" 2015, vol. 1, no 4), we can avoid raising such questions by drawing a strict distinction between the varieties of concepts or theories of well-being and policy processes aiming at promoting the well-being of citizens. They claim that such policies are "justified only when they are grounded in the conceptions of the well-being of those on whose behalf policy is being made", and call this approach "pragmatic subjectivism" (p. 713). From their reasoning it follows that policymakers need not develop the appropriate concept of well-being, but can leave it to citizens to choose. The paper examines Haybron and Tiberius' proposal and defends the claim that while theoretically we can avoid discussing the concept of well-being when we follow pragmatic subjectivism, we cannot do this in practice. Research Design & Methods: The paper uses an argument analysis.

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“…At the same time, having a home of a sufficiently high standard is often an indicator of the affluence of a given household and thus forms the basis for determining its economic situation, which in turn is used for studying poverty of households (population). The housing situation of a given individual is an important area for determining whether the individual is at risk of poverty or not (Kwarciński & Ulman, 2018;Soltes & Ulman, 2015).…”

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Standard of residency in Poland and selected European countries: Comparative analysis

Ulman

2019

IER

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The aim of the paper is to present the standard of residency in the European Union countries, in particular against the background of the housing policy implemented in selected EU countries. Research Design & Methods: Linear ordering and hierarchical cluster methods were used for statistical comparative analysis of studied countries. The data on the surroundings of the home and the financial capacity of respondents to maintain the home are taken into account. The data were taken from EQLS (European Quality of Life Survey)the 4th-edition survey was held in 2016 and 2017. Findings: The article shows significant differences in the standard of residency among European countries. In separate areas for assessing the housing situation, no country ranked first in all areas at the same time. In some cases, the position of a given country (e.g. Finland) is fundamentally different due to the considered area of standard of residency assessment. In terms of a multidimensional assessment of this standard, Poland is generally better rated than using commonly used housing situation indicators (e.g. the number of rooms per person). Contribution & Value Added: An added value is the proposal to measure the housing situation of the population not only on the basis of measuring one or two indicators, but in a multidimensional approach with separate areas of assessment. This allows for a broader and deeper look at the problem of satisfying one of the basic human needs of living. Article type: research paper

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A hybrid version of well-being: An attempt at operationalisation

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Quality of life paradox. Well-being ranking of the selected European countries based on hybrid well-being approach

Quality of life paradox. Well-being ranking of the selected European countries based on hybrid well-being approach

On the Importance of the Philosophy of Well-being

Standard of residency in Poland and selected European countries: Comparative analysis

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