Back to Baseline in Britain: Adaptation in the British Household Panel Survey
Back to Baseline in Britain: Adaptation in the British Household Panel Survey
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DOI：
10.1111/ecca.12007
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发表时间：
2013-07-01
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影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Georgellis, Yannis
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作者：
Clark, Andrew E.;Georgellis, Yannis
我们使用18波英国面板数据来寻找幸福适应重大生活事件的证据。对结婚、离婚、生育和守寡的适应似乎是迅速和完全的;对失业的适应则不是这样。这些发现是非常相似的德国面板数据在以前的工作。同样，以生活满意度为幸福指标的时间曲线与使用心理功能12项量表的时间曲线非常接近。因此，适应现象可能是一种普遍现象，而不仅仅是在德国的数据或使用单项福利措施中发现的。
We look for evidence of adaptation in wellbeing to major life events using eighteen waves of British panel data. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of child and widowhood appears to be rapid and complete; this is not so for unemployment. These findings are remarkably similar to those in previous work on German panel data. Equally, the time profiles with life satisfaction as the wellbeing measure are very close to those using a twelve-item scale of psychological functioning. As such, the phenomenon of adaptation may be a general one, rather than being found only in German data or using single-item wellbeing measures.