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- Andrén, Daniela, Associate Professor, 1968-, et al.
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Individual wellbeing and cortisol
- 2024
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Ingår i: Encyclopedia of Happiness, Quality of Life and Subjective Wellbeing. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781800889668 - 9781800889675 ; , s. 125-133
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The variety and the number of ways of measuring individual wellbeing has increased over the past two decades. In addition to all self-reported measures, researchers also consider a wide variety of objectively-measured indicators of wellbeing (e.g., blood pressure, pulse rate, and the pattern of activity in different parts of the brain). However, it has not yet been established if the analysis of one only of these measurement concepts suffices, or rather whether more can be learnt from the joint analyses of both subjective and objective adult wellbeing indicators. This chapter briefly reviews this question, focussing on cortisol (as a potential objective measure) and life satisfaction (as a subjective measure), and suggests directions for future research.
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- Andrén, Daniela, 1968-, et al.
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New ways to measure well-being? : A first joint analysis of subjective and objective measures
- 2018
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Our study is, to our knowledge, the first joint analysis of subjective and objective measures of well-being. Using a rich longitudinal data from the mothers pregnancy until adulthood for a birth cohort of children who attended school in Örebro during the 1960s, we analyse in a first step how subjective (self-assessed) and objective (cortisol-based) measures of well-being are related to each other. In a second step, life-course models for these two measures are estimated and compared with each other. Despite the fact that our analysis is largely exploratory, our results suggest interesting possibilities to use objective measures to measure well-being, even though this may imply a greater degree of complexity.
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- Andrén, Daniela, 1968-, et al.
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Subjective and physiological measures of well-being : an exploratory analysis using birth-cohort data
- 2017
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We use a rich longitudinal data set following a cohort of Swedish women from age 10 to 49 to analyse the effects of birth and early-life conditions on adulthood outcomes. These latter include both well-being and the stress hormone cortisol. Employment and marital status are important adult determinants of well-being. Log family income and absence from school also predict adult well-being, although their importance falls when controlling for adult and birth characteristics. Among the birth characteristics, we find that high birth weight (>4.3kg) affects adult well-being. We predict the level of adult cortisol only poorly, and suggest that the relationship between life satisfaction and cortisol is non-monotonic: both high and low cortisol are negatively correlated with life satisfaction. The results from an OLS life satisfaction regression and a multinomial logit of high or low cortisol (as compared to medium) are more similar to each other.
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- D'Ambrosio, Conchita, et al.
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Money and Happiness : Income, Wealth and Subjective Well-Being
- 2020
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Ingår i: Social Indicators Research. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0303-8300 .- 1573-0921. ; 148:1, s. 47-66
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We examine the complex relationship between money and happiness. We find that both permanent income and wealth are better predictors of life satisfaction than current income and wealth. They matter not only in absolute terms but also in comparative terms. However, their relative impacts differ. The first exerts a comparison effect-the higher the permanent income of the reference group, the lower life satisfaction-the second exerts an information effect-the higher the permanent wealth of the reference group, the higher life satisfaction. We also show that negative transitory shocks to income reduce life satisfaction while transitory shocks to wealth have no effect. Lastly, we analyse the effects of their components and find that not all of them predict life satisfaction: permanent taxes do not matter, while only the value of permanent real estate, financial and business assets do. Finally, we use quantile regression and analyse to what extent our results vary along the well-being distribution, finding the impacts to be larger at lower levels of life satisfaction.
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- D'Ambrosio, Conchita, et al.
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Satisfaction with life and economic well-being : Evidence from Germany
- 2009
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Ingår i: Schmollers Jahrbuch (Journal of Applied Social Science Studies). - 1439-121X. ; 129:2, s. 283-295
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The relationship between an individual's economic well-being and satisfaction with own life has been the focus of many studies both within and across countries, in one period of time and over time. As a proxy of economic well-being household income both adjusted and unadjusted for household needs has been generally used. The aim of the present paper is to propose a more comprehensive measure of well-being considering the role that wealth and permanent income play in simultaneously determining satisfaction with life. The results, based on representative microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), suggest that both income and wealth increase satisfaction, that long-run income is more appropriate than short-term income and that satisfaction with life is particularly high for those who are at the top of both the income and wealth distributions.
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