Religiosity and Subjective Well-Being Among Old People: Evidence from a Transitional Country
| Autor: | Tinh Doan, Huong Van Vu, Tuyen Quang Tran, Thanh Quy Nguyen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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05 social sciences Life satisfaction 050109 social psychology Regression analysis Negative association Religiosity Econometric model 0502 economics and business Happiness 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 050207 economics Subjective well-being Life-span and Life-course Studies Psychology Social psychology Quality of Life Research media_common |
| Zdroj: | Applied Research in Quality of Life. 12:947-962 |
| ISSN: | 1871-2576 1871-2584 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11482-016-9500-9 |
| Popis: | Using data from the 2011 Vietnam National Aging Survey, we examined whether religion is associated with subjective well-being (i.e. happiness or life satisfaction) among old people in Vietnam. Our regression analysis provided the first evidence that some religious affiliations are negatively related to happiness. Buddhists and Caodaists are less happy than their non-religious counterparts, even after controlling for several household and individual attributes. However, this negative association does not hold for Christians. This finding is robust to the choice of key covariates and specification of econometric models. Our finding supports the hypothesis that religiosity tends to be linked with unhappiness in transitional countries possibly because in these countries those who are religious often consist disproportionately of new, relatively unhappy recruits. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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