Spatial variations in contributors to life satisfaction: An Australian case study

Kubiszewski, Ida; Jarvis, Diane; Zakariyya, Nabeeh

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.05.025

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“…We found that the percentage of people suffering decreased from 3.32 to 2.68% and those struggling decreased from 11.29 to 9.77% over the past 17 years, while those thriving increased from 85.39 to 87.64% over this period. This implies that in Australia, inequality of LS has decreased slightly over time [44]. The fact that the inequality of LS has decreased in Australia shows that previously implemented policies have been successful to some extent in improving the LS for many.…”

Section: Inequality Of Life Satisfactionmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…This means that these individuals are more susceptible to life events impacting their LS, both positively and negatively. If their LS can be impacted positively, opportunities exist for targeted policies to improve overall LS of communities that are struggling [44,45]. Identifying factors that detract from those individuals' lives or communities, and making even minor interventions in addressing those issues, could have significant impacts on the LS of the entire Australian community.…”

Section: Average Life Satisfactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Identifying those individuals and communities that are the most as risk, is critical not only for those individuals, but for all individuals within the society. A high inequality of LS across the population has been shown to negatively impact the LS of everyone and be costly to society [44,45,50]. Seeing a neighbour struggling while you are thriving, or vice versa, will decrease your overall satisfaction.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Many reports [42,43] that analyse societal contributions to wellbeing focus on national averages. Although important for international comparisons and understanding the overall wellbeing of a nation, these indicators and reports: (1) omit the distribution of wellbeing within a country; (2) do not look at how individual LS changes over time; and (3) fail to identify and study those most at risk [44,45].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Resilience of self-reported life satisfaction: A case study of who conforms to set-point theory in Australia

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While self-reported life satisfaction (LS) has become an important research and policy tool, much debate still surrounds the question of what causes LS to change in certain individuals, while not in others. Set-point theory argues that individuals have a relatively resilient LS or "set point" (i.e. there is a certain LS level that individuals return to even after major life events). Here, we describe the extent to which LS varies over time for 12,643 individuals living in Australia who participated in at least eight annual waves of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. We use the standard deviation (SD) of yearon-year LS by individuals (SD of LS) as a measure of instability and an inverse proxy for resilience. We then model SD of LS as the dependent variable against average LS scores over time by individual, Big Five personality scores by individual, the number of waves the individual participated in, and other control variables. We found that SD of LS was higher (lower resilience) in participants with a lower average LS and greater degrees of extraversion and agreeableness. Set-point theory thus applies more to individuals whose average LS is already high and whose personality traits facilitate higher resilience. We were able to explain about 35% of the stability in LS. These results are critical in designing policies aimed at improving people's lives.

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“…During the last decades, survey-research methods introduced by the social sciences have brought a breakthrough. Until now, indicators have been categorized in one of three ways: (1) those that adjust economic indicators to include social and environmental aspects, (2) those that measure quality of life or life satisfaction directly through surveys, and (3) those that are composite indicators bringing together a multitude of (Kubiszewski, Jarvis, & Zakariyya, 2019).…”

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Ethical Consumption and Happiness: Evidence from Pakistan

Khurshid

Siddiqui

2020

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Today's customers are ethically conscious and prefer those products that are ethically produced without using child labor and harm to animals and nature. This study shows various factors that affect ethical consumption and happiness. We proposed a model explaining effect of ethical purchase on happiness and onwards to repurchase intention. For this purpose this research adopted (Hwang & Kim, 2016) model of factors affecting happiness and repurchase intention and added variables such as ethical consumption, altruism and ethical obligation from . Using a questionnaire-based survey, the data were collected from 212 respondents to analyze their attitude towards ethical consumption and happiness. To analyze data and test the hypothesis, Structured Equation modeling, PLS algorithm and bootstapping were used. The results showed that guilt positively affects empathy. However, empathy does not affect ethical consumption. Narcissism positively affects self-actualization. While, Self-actualization negatively affect ethical consumption. Ethical obligation also inversely affect ethical consumption however the relationship seems to be insignificant. Surprisingly, Altruism and ethical consumption also seems to have a negative connection. Moreover, ethical consumers didn't draw happiness out of their purchase, however, happiness positively affected repurchase intention. The results of this study demonstrate the strong associations of the paths from happiness to repurchase intention, happiness to self-actualization, repurchase intention to happiness and self-actualization to happiness.

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Toward better measurement of sustainable development and wellbeing: A small number of SDG indicators reliably predict life satisfaction

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In 2015, all 193 member states of the United Nations (UN) adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These 17 goals, 169 targets, and 232 indicators (including over 650 indicators if all the subdivisions are included) are intended to guide and improve sustainable wellbeing and life satisfaction for everyone on earth. Challenges include the fact that many indicators are not measured or reliably tracked in many countries, the cost of tracking is unclear, and no explicit overarching goal exists. To highlight some of the problems with this approach, we model life satisfaction (LS) survey scores by country, as a proxy for overall wellbeing, as the dependent variable against the official 232 SDG indicators. Using a constrained linear regression approach (LASSO), we identify a model that includes only 8 of the 232 indicators and explains 84% of the variation in LS. These eight indicators are proxies for economic, social, and environmental variables. We also cluster countries according to these indicators and LS showing correlation within geographical and cultural regions. We discuss these results with regard to the meaning and measurement of sustainable development vs. sustainable wellbeing and its relationship with LS and the SDGs. We recommend how these results can be used to prioritize goals and measurement efforts to create more meaningful and useful measures of sustainable wellbeing.

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Spatial variations in contributors to life satisfaction: An Australian case study

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Cited by 15 publications

References 67 publications

Resilience of self-reported life satisfaction: A case study of who conforms to set-point theory in Australia

Resilience of self-reported life satisfaction: A case study of who conforms to set-point theory in Australia

Ethical Consumption and Happiness: Evidence from Pakistan

Toward better measurement of sustainable development and wellbeing: A small number of SDG indicators reliably predict life satisfaction

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