Life Satisfaction and the Human Development Index Across the World

Yin, Remi; Lepinteur, Anthony; Clark, Andrew E.; D’Ambrosio, Conchita

doi:10.1177/00220221211044784

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“…However, health expenditure reduces negative mood. Yin et al (2021) found that the health index of the Human Development Index was significantly associated with life satisfaction but unassociated with positive affect and negative affect.…”

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“…Positive affect includes pleasant moods and emotions (i.e., joy and affection), and negative affect includes unpleasant moods and emotions (i.e., sadness, stress, worry, etc.). A few studies have assessed the association between country-level positive and negative affect and macroeconomic data (Yin et al, 2021). Therefore, the subsequent description would be about life satisfaction, happiness, or well-being.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The association explored by previous studies would differ across geographical locations due to cultural differences. For example, Yin et al (2021) have found that the impact of HDI indices on life satisfaction differed across geographical locations and cultures. Therefore, the impact of variables of interest in this study is probably different on subjective well-being indicators (life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect) in South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, etc.)…”

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Subjective Well-Being and Its Macroeconomic and Institutional Predictors: A Panel Data Analysis of South Asian Countries

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Most studies that investigated the impact of macro-economic factors (GDP per capita, income inequality, inflation, unemployment, health expenditure, etc.) and institutional factors (i.e., gender equality, corruption etc.) focused on the global context or developed countries or European countries. There was little information about the impact of these objective variables on the subjective well-being of South Asian countries. Simultaneously, these studies focused on the cognitive component of subjective well-being (i.e., life satisfaction, happiness, etc.) and ignored the affective components (i.e., positive affect and negative affect). This study assessed the impact of these objective factors on subjective well-being (including cognitive and affective components) in South Asian countries. The country-level panel data for the study variables from 2007 to 2019 (13 years) were used in this study. Pooled ordinal least square model, fixed-effects model, and random-effects model with fixed-year effect and clustered standard error were estimated. The results suggested that log GDP per capita, income inequality, unemployment, and gender equality were significant predictors of life satisfaction. GDP per capita and gender equality were substantial predictors of positive affect; inflation, health expenditure, and gender equality were significant predictors of negative affect. These findings have importance in policy discussions to improve the well-being of south Asian people. There were some differences in the findings with previous studies investigating the association between study variables in global or developed country contexts. These differences emphasize considering the cultural differences in studying subjective well-being.

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“…The wellbeing of citizens is strongly correlated with the Human Development Index (HDI) and the gross national income per capita. The HDI, which consists of three core indicators: life expectancy, education level and standard of living, is higher in Spain than in Poland: Poland was ranked 32 and Spain 22 in the 2019 Human Development Report1 () (Yin, et al, 2021). The finding regarding the Spanish students' higher Openness to experience is interesting, but the literature offers little information on Openness to experience viewed from an intercultural perspective 1 http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr_2019_overview_-_english.pdf (McCrae, Costa, Terracciano, Parker, Mills, DeFruyt, & Mervielde, 2002;Woo, Chernyshenko, Longley, Zhang, Chiu, & Stark, 2014).…”

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On the pursuit of happiness. Personality underpinnings of life satisfaction of Spanish and Polish university freshmen

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Tychmanowicz²

2022

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The aim of the present study was to analyse the relationship between personality traits and life satisfaction among university freshmen. Knowledge about personality determinants of life satisfaction in newly enrolled university students can be used to predict their successful adaptation to new educational requirements. Two groups of students were surveyed: Spaniards studying in Spain (n = 164; Mage = 21.25; SD = 1.97) and Poles studying in Poland (n=162; Mage=22.85; SD=1.24). The following instruments were used: the Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) and the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS). The results showed that in the group of Spanish students, life satisfaction correlated positively with Extraversion, Conscientiousness and Neuroticism, while in the group of Polish students, it correlated positively with all personality traits. In both Polish and Spanish students, Extraversion, Conscientiousness and Neuroticism were significant predictors of higher life satisfaction. The Polish and Spanish student groups differed slightly in the patterns of the relationships between personality traits and life satisfaction, however, in both samples, higher levels of Extraversion, Conscientiousness and lower levels of Neuroticism were conducive to higher life satisfaction. The article discusses the educational implications of the reported findings.

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“…Currently, popular societal development measures can also become culturally sensitive (Yin et al., 2021). For example, the HDI is universally calculated as a geometric mean of three sub‐indexes: economic prosperity, longevity, and education.…”

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Preference for modernization is universal, but expected modernization trajectories are culturally diversified: A nine‐country study of folk theories of societal development

Kryś

Capaldi

Uchida

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Asian J of Social Psycho

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Cultural sensitivity in societal development has been advocated for since at least the 1960s but has remained understudied. Our goal is to address this gap and to investigate folk theories of societal development. We aimed to identify both universal and culturally specific lay beliefs about what constitutes good societal development. We collected data from 2,684 participants from Japan, Hong Kong (China), Poland, Turkey, Brazil, France, Nigeria, the USA, and Canada. We measured preferences for 28 development aims. We used multidimensional scaling, analysis of variance, and pairwise comparisons to identify universal and country‐specific preferences. Our results demonstrate that what people understand as modernization is fairly universal across countries, but specific pathways of development and preferences towards these pathways tend to vary between countries. We distinguished three facets of modernization—foundational aims (e.g., trust, economic development), welfare aims (e.g., poverty eradication, education), and inclusive aims (e.g., openness, gender equality)—and incorporated them into a folk meta‐theory of modernization. In all nine countries, the three facets of modernization were preferred more than conventional aims (e.g., military, demographic growth). We propose a method of implementing our findings into a culturally sensitive modernization index.

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Life Satisfaction and the Human Development Index Across the World

Cited by 16 publications

References 54 publications

Subjective Well-Being and Its Macroeconomic and Institutional Predictors: A Panel Data Analysis of South Asian Countries

Subjective Well-Being and Its Macroeconomic and Institutional Predictors: A Panel Data Analysis of South Asian Countries

On the pursuit of happiness. Personality underpinnings of life satisfaction of Spanish and Polish university freshmen

Preference for modernization is universal, but expected modernization trajectories are culturally diversified: A nine‐country study of folk theories of societal development

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