Don't Look Up! Individual Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being of Students in Thailand.

Autor: Dufhues T; External Environment for Agriculture and Policy Analysi, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle (Saale), Germany., Möllers J; External Environment for Agriculture and Policy Analysi, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle (Saale), Germany., Jantsch A; External Environment for Agriculture and Policy Analysi, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle (Saale), Germany., Buchenrieder G; Institute of Sociology and Economics, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Munich, Germany., Camfield L; School of International Development (DEV), University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of happiness studies [J Happiness Stud] 2023; Vol. 24 (2), pp. 477-503. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Dec 01.
DOI: 10.1007/s10902-022-00604-4
Abstrakt: Empirical evidence supports the hypothesis that an individual's position in an income stratum-more than the absolute income level-determines subjective well-being. However, studies on subjective well-being suffer from a critical methodological weakness: they use exogenously defined reference groups. Our study addresses this point by applying an innovative new survey instrument. We ask respondents to identify individual reference persons for income comparisons. We find that these reference persons come from a range of social groups. Interactions between personality traits and the direction of income comparisons lead to different levels of subjective well-being. This highlights the importance of collecting information on personality traits in research on subjective well-being. We conclude that questions about self-defined individual income comparisons can be a valuable and straightforward addition to future surveys.
Competing Interests: Conflict of interestThere is no conflict of interest with any of the authors.
(© The Author(s) 2022.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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