Measurement of International Differences in Well-Being

衡量福祉的国际差异

• 批准号: 8184695
• 负责人: Arie Kapteyn
• 金额: $ 20.28万
• 依托单位: RAND CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-30 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8184695
• 关键词: Affect; American; Communities; Conflict (Psychology); Country; Data; Decision Making; Economic Development; Emotions; Happiness; Health; Individual; International; Internet; Investigation; Lead; Learning; Life; Measurement; Measures; Methods; Netherlands; Outcome; Paper; Patient Self-Report; Personal Satisfaction; Policies; Population; Population Group; Procedures; Property; Reporting; Research; Respondent; Sampling; Seminal; Social Sciences; Time; Variant; Work; base; experience; improved; reconstruction; research study; response; satisfaction; time interval; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A major impulse for the study of subjective well-being has been the question how policy affects the distribution of subjective well-being within a country. A natural approach to learning about policy effects is to compare policies across countries and relate these to observed differences in well-being. Most of the work on international comparisons of well-being has been based on global satisfaction measures, like single questions inviting respondents to rate their happiness on a numerical or verbal scale. This work has produced widely conflicting findings. More recently, experienced well-being has been proposed as an alternative measure. Both approaches to the measurement of well-being are in principle vulnerable to Differential Item Functioning, particularly when used to compare different countries. We propose a thorough analysis of the properties of the different well-being measures and in particular how anchoring vignettes can be used to improve the comparability of well-being measures across population groups and across countries. To that end we will conduct several experiments in two population representative Internet panels: the American Life Panel (ALP) in the U.S. and the Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social sciences (LISS) panel in The Netherlands. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: There is ample evidence that well-being is related to health outcomes, while subjective well-being is also an important outcome in its own right. A better understanding of how to measure subjective well-being and how alternative measures may lead to different conclusions will aid policy decision making.

描述（由申请人提供）：主观幸福感研究的一个主要推动力是政策如何影响一个国家内主观幸福感的分布的问题。了解政策效果的一个自然方法是比较各国的政策，并将这些政策与观察到的福祉差异联系起来。大多数关于幸福感的国际比较工作都是基于全球满意度的衡量标准，比如简单的问题，邀请受访者用数字或语言来评价他们的幸福感。这项工作产生了广泛的相互矛盾的结果。最近，有人提出体验幸福作为一种替代措施。这两种衡量幸福的方法原则上都容易受到差异项目功能的影响，特别是在用于比较不同国家时。我们建议对不同福祉措施的特性进行彻底分析，特别是如何使用锚定小插曲来提高不同人口群体和不同国家福祉措施的可比性。为此，我们将在两个人口代表性的互联网小组进行几项实验：美国生活小组（ALP）在美国和荷兰的社会科学纵向互联网研究（利斯）小组。 公共卫生相关性：有充分的证据表明，幸福感与健康结果有关，而主观幸福感本身也是一个重要的结果。更好地理解如何衡量主观幸福感以及替代措施如何可能导致不同的结论，将有助于政策决策。