Self-Evaluation Affects Subjective Well-Being: The Effects of Socioeconomic Status and Personality in Taiwan

Yeh, Hsiu-Jen; Hsieh, Yeu‐Sheng; Tsay, Ruey-Ming

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-15904-1_6

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“…The possible responses are rated on the 11-point scale (ranging from 0 = not at all satisfied to 10 = completely satisfied). According to the previous literature [8,58], we can use life satisfaction and happiness to measure the positive emotional profiles, while worry and depression belong to the negative emotional profiles.…”

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Exploring the Association between Life Perceptions and Emotional Profiles in Taiwan: Empirical Evidence from the National Well-Being Indicators Survey

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Wang

Liou

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Most of the studies on subjective well-being have focused on positive emotions. The adverse effect of negative emotions on mental health has been overlooked. This study investigates the extent to which specific life perceptions are associated with emotional profiles, and explores relevant factors that effectively enhance subjective well-being. The data were drawn from 4656 respondents in the 2015 National Well-being Indicators Survey in Taiwan. T-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation, and ordinary least squares regression were conducted. The results reveal that perceptions of all life domains are positively associated with life satisfaction and happiness. Depression and worry are negatively associated with most of the life perceptions, except for environmental quality. These results demonstrate that the emotional profile approach sheds light on current literature on subjective well-being, and suggests that strategies to increase well-being should take positive and negative emotion into account simultaneously. The findings contribute by confirming which life domains can produce the best or worst outcomes in emotional regulation and positively influence mental health. Given that personal safety and the future security of external types is the most crucial factor within the emotional profiles, social welfare and protection programs would be an important strategy to increase subjective well-being.

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“…Previous studies specified several control variables for each respondent including age, educational level, marital status, and gender (=1 if male) [23,58,61]. Detailed definitions and descriptive statistics of all variables are presented in Table 1.…”

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Exploring the Association between Life Perceptions and Emotional Profiles in Taiwan: Empirical Evidence from the National Well-Being Indicators Survey

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Liou

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“…As such, while the two concepts are recognized as related (Yeh et al, 2015), there are criticisms to it. Feldman (2010: 5) is specific at this point.…”

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Theoretical Backgrounds of Public Happiness

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2021

Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being

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“…Broadly speaking, there are two theoretical models: adaptation theory which emphasizes individual personality traits and reactivity theory which emphasizes objective external circumstances (Sirgy, 2001). Adaptation theory is primarily a psychologist's approach, with individual personality traits such as extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness rather than objective conditions as key influencing variables (Maggino, 2015;Yeh et al, 2015). This theory posits that satisfaction with life experiences or public services affects happiness through a filtering process by pre-determined personality traits, and improvement of objective conditions or increasing positive experiences does not increase happiness.…”

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Determinants of Happiness

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2021

Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being

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There are various explanatory models for factors influencing happiness. Broadly speaking, there are two theoretical models: adaptation theory which emphasizes individual personality traits and reactivity theory which emphasizes objective external circumstances (Sirgy, 2001). Adaptation theory is primarily a psychologist's approach, with individual personality traits such as extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness rather than objective conditions as key influencing variables (Maggino, 2015;Yeh et al., 2015). This theory posits that satisfaction with life experiences or public services affects happiness through a filtering process by pre-determined personality traits, and improvement of objective conditions or increasing positive experiences does not increase happiness. Rather, personality traits influence the emotions and evaluations of various objective situations. In contrast, reactivity theory is the main approach of various social scientists including economics and sociology and posits that objective external conditions at individual and social levels such as income, age, gender, marriage, occupation, family, region, and government. Conditions and so on are linked to happiness. In the process, individual experiences and evaluations are determined by passive reactions to objective conditions, so objective conditions become an important influencing variable of happiness (Diener, 1984;Ko, 2013).Adaptation and response theories are each called by various names. Adaptation theory, which focuses on internal traits of individuals, is also referred to as personal trait or disposition theory, internal factor theory, set point theory, top-down spillover theory, etc. Reactivity theory, which focuses on objective external conditions, is also called in various ways such as situation theory, external factor theory, needs satisfaction theory, and bottom-up spillover theory. Among these various names, some additional explanation is needed for the distinction between the top-down spillover approach and the bottom-up spillover approach. Both approaches focus on the spillover process of happiness. A spillover is a phenomenon in which satisfaction in one domain of life affects satisfaction in another domain and can be divided into

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Self-Evaluation Affects Subjective Well-Being: The Effects of Socioeconomic Status and Personality in Taiwan

Cited by 3 publications

References 45 publications

Exploring the Association between Life Perceptions and Emotional Profiles in Taiwan: Empirical Evidence from the National Well-Being Indicators Survey

Exploring the Association between Life Perceptions and Emotional Profiles in Taiwan: Empirical Evidence from the National Well-Being Indicators Survey

Theoretical Backgrounds of Public Happiness

Determinants of Happiness

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