Life Satisfaction Around the World

世界各地的生活满意度

• 批准号: 8432806
• 负责人: James Patrick Smith
• 金额: $ 56.53万
• 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: 2011-03-15 至 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8432806
• 关键词: Address; Adult; American; Categories; Country; Data; Dimensions; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Economics; Education; Europe; European; Exhibits; Expenditure; Family Relationship; Family health status; Happiness; Health; Healthcare Systems; Human; Human Development; Human Rights; Income; Individual; Inequality; International; Life; Life Expectancy; Literature; Methodology; Metric; Occupations; Patient Self-Report; Perception; Personal Satisfaction; Persons; Population; Poverty; Relative (related person); Research; Respondent; Rest; Series; Societal Factors; Surveys; Testing; Time; Variant; Violence; Western Europe; Work; disability; drinking behavior; experience; indexing; response; satisfaction; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A considerable amount of recent research has focused on cross-country differences in subjective well- being or life satisfaction, but mostly limited to comparisons of Europe and the U.S. A fundamental problem in all international comparisons-cross-sectional and time series analyses-of subjective well-being is that one has to assume that response scales are the same across countries, across time, and across groups of respondents within a country. However, residents of different countries may differ in the subjective thresholds they use in demarcating satisfaction into discrete categories. To address the issue of comparability of response scales across countries, we will exploit a vignette methodology that allows identification of response scale differences within and between countries. Vignettes can be used to make response scales comparable. In this project we will administer vignettes to respondents in the Gallup World Poll (GWP). Vignette responses will also be used to better understand and correct differences in response scales across countries and socio-economic groups within countries. We will extend the reach of previous analysis by administering life satisfaction vignettes to respondents in about 120 countries in the GWP over the course of four years providing data for approximately 120,000 respondents all over the world. In addition, we will place repeat vignettes into a subset of those countries in the fifth year. These vignettes will present hypothetical scenarios covering four key life domains: income, family relations, job, and health. These domains are chosen because the current literature has documented them as key determinants of overall life satisfaction.

描述（申请人提供）：最近有相当多的研究集中在主观幸福感或生活满意度的跨国差异上，但大多限于欧洲和美国的比较。在主观幸福感的所有国际比较中，横截面和时间序列分析的一个基本问题是，人们必须假设各国的反应量表在不同时间是相同的，以及一个国家内不同群体的受访者。然而，不同国家的居民在将满意度划分为离散类别时使用的主观阈值可能不同。为了解决各国反应量表的可比性问题，我们将采用一种小插曲方法，可以确定国家内部和国家之间的反应量表差异。可使用晕影使反应量表具有可比性。在这个项目中，我们将管理小插曲的受访者在盖洛普世界民意调查（GWP）。还将使用小插图答复，以更好地了解和纠正各国和国内社会经济群体之间在答复尺度上的差异。我们将扩大以前分析的范围，在四年的时间里向全球变暖潜能值中约120个国家的受访者提供生活满意度小插曲，为全球约12万受访者提供数据。此外，我们将在第五年在这些国家的一个子集中重复小插曲。这些小插曲将提出假设情景涵盖四个关键的生活领域：收入，家庭关系，工作和健康。之所以选择这些领域，是因为目前的文献已经证明它们是整体生活满意度的关键决定因素。