Happy Moves? Assessing the Link between Life Satisfaction and Emigration Intentions

Ivļevs, Artjoms

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2604380

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“…Considering the hypotheses in which the mediator factor was tested, the effect of individualism independent variable H6 on the desire to go abroad through life satisfaction was not significant, while the effect of collectivism on the desire to go abroad through life satisfaction in H7 was significant. Similarly, Ivlevs (2015) found that individuals with the highest and lowest life satisfaction have a high desire to migrate, while individuals with an average life satisfaction have a low willingness to migrate. In this context, this research is compatible with the literature showing that individuals with high life satisfaction may have a high tendency to migrate; It differs from the literature showing that collectivistic characteristics reduce the desire to migrate.…”

Section: Indirect Relationsmentioning

confidence: 88%

“…There is a Ushaped relationship between the desire to migrate and life satisfaction. While individuals with low life satisfaction are close to migration, those close to the middle of the distribution are reluctant to migrate (Ivlevs, 2015). A study on the impact of life satisfaction on migration decision was conducted by Ciorbagiu, Stoica and Mihaila (2020) using data from the Eurofound European Quality of Life Survey.…”

Section: Direct Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How Do Turkish Youth’s Individualist and Collectivist Characteristics Affect Their Willingness to Migrate? The Mediator Role of Life Satisfaction

Boztilki

Güler

Koçak

2022

KJHSS

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Many personal factors can also be effective in people's decision to migrate in addition to environmental factors. Having individualistic or collectivist tendencies is thought to be one of these factors. In this study, we will examine the relationship between the willingness of young people between the ages of 18-30 living in Turkey to migrate and their individualism-collectivism tendencies towards migration. The level of life satisfaction, which is one of the personal factors thought to be effective on the desire to migrate, was determined as the mediating variable in the research. Consistent with the prevailing trend in the literature, the main hypothesis of the research is that young people with high individualistic tendencies and young people with low life satisfaction will have a higher desire to migrate. As a result of the research, these hypotheses were confirmed. For collectivist youth, it was determined that being married and having children increased their desire to migrate. This result shows that the probability of migration is not high only for people that are classically associated with migration, such as having individualistic traits and low life satisfaction, being single and young. For the collectivist youth who attach importance to values such as family, tradition, and social solidarity, the effect of establishing a family increases the desire to migrate is due to lowering the emotional and social costs of being separated from the community.

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Section: Indirect Relationsmentioning

confidence: 88%

Section: Direct Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Do Turkish Youth’s Individualist and Collectivist Characteristics Affect Their Willingness to Migrate? The Mediator Role of Life Satisfaction

Boztilki

Güler

Koçak

2022

KJHSS

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“…Cai, Esipova, Oppenheimer & Feng, 2014;Hajduch, Orosová & Kulanová, 2018), others claim the opposite that it is the higher well-being which leads to emigration behavior (e.g. Polgreen & Simpson, 2011;Ivlevs, 2014). However, there is a consensus that well-being is a factor which plays a role in migration.…”

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Socio-Psychological Factors and Emigration Plans Among University Students in Slovakia During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Lučanská¹,

Orosová²

2022

Psychological Applications and Trends

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"Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between socio-psychological factors such as the perceived economic situation, perceived political situation, well-being, rootedness and emigration plans of university students in Slovakia during the Covid-19 pandemic. Methods: The data for this study were collected through an online survey of university students during the Covid-19 pandemic between November and December 2021. The research sample consisted of 151 (76.2% female) Slovak university students (M=21.8 years, SD=2.5). In order to identify emigration plans, there was one question with 8 answer options. Based on this, the respondents were divided into two groups; those who do not plan to leave Slovakia (76.8%) and those who plan to leave in the long term (23.2%). There was also one item used to measure the perceived economic situation and political situation. The satisfaction with life scale was used to measure well-being while the Rootedness scale consisting of the Desire for Change and Home/Family subscales was used to measure rootedness. As emigration plans was a categorical variable, binary logistic regression was used. The analysis was controlled for gender. Results: A model containing five independent variables (perceived economic situation, perceived political situation, well-being, rootedness - desire for change and home/family dimensions) explained 41.9% of variance in emigration plans during the Covid-19 pandemic, and correctly classified 84.8% of the cases. Only three of these variables made a unique statistically significant contribution to the model. The strongest predictor of emigration plans during the Covid-19 pandemic was perceived economic situation, recording an OR of 2.27. This indicated that students who perceived the economic situation in Slovakia more pessimistically were over 2 times more likely to report an emigration plan. The OR of 1.32 for rootedness – desire for change, indicated that students with a greater desire for change were over 1.32 times more likely to report emigration plans. On the contrary, the OR of 0.81 for rootedness – home/family was less than 1, indicating that students who were more satisfied with their home and family were 0.81 times less likely to report emigration plans. Conclusion: The strongest predictor of emigration plans during a pandemic is perceived economic situation. The dimensions of rootedness, as confirmed by previous studies, are predictors of emigration plans in the pre-pandemic and pandemic period."

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Happy Moves? Assessing the Link between Life Satisfaction and Emigration Intentions

Cited by 2 publications

References 43 publications

How Do Turkish Youth’s Individualist and Collectivist Characteristics Affect Their Willingness to Migrate? The Mediator Role of Life Satisfaction

How Do Turkish Youth’s Individualist and Collectivist Characteristics Affect Their Willingness to Migrate? The Mediator Role of Life Satisfaction

Socio-Psychological Factors and Emigration Plans Among University Students in Slovakia During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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