Sökning: "self-reported current happiness"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden self-reported current happiness.
1. Essays on the Determinants and Measurement of Subjective Well-Being
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays in economics, all concerned with different aspects of subjective well-being. The abstracts of the four studies are as follows.Beyond Income: The Importance for Life Satisfaction of Having Access to a Cash Margin. LÄS MER
2. Essays on Social Comparison
Sammanfattning : Paper 1: By using hypothetical choice experiments, this paper presents evidence that individuals’ concern for relative consumption depends on their relative consumption. Individuals with consumption levels above society’s average consumption level tend to have, in general, lower concern for relative consumption. LÄS MER
3. Self-Control, Financial Well-Being, and Motivated Reasoning : Essays in Behavioral Finance
Sammanfattning : The objective of this thesis is to improve our understanding of how individual differences in intuitive and analytic decision making are associated with people’s behavior as well as their well-being. The first three essays investigate, in turn, how self-control—a typical System 2 driven ability—correlates with financial behavior, financial well-being, and affective forecasting ability. LÄS MER
4. Social and regional differentials in population health status, values for health, and subjective well-being in China
Sammanfattning : The overarching aim of this thesis is to increase knowledge on population health-related quality of life and subjective well-being, and to explore values for health states in China. The EQ-5D instrument was included in the National Health Services Survey 2008 (n = 120,700, aged 15-103 years) to measure health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in all 31 provinces in mainland China. LÄS MER
5. The Measurement of Subjective Well-Being: Item Response Theory, Classical Test Theory, and Multidimensional Item Response Theory
Sammanfattning : For over 35 years, modern science has conceptualized happiness as subjective well-being, which has until recently been understood as a dual construct consisting of an affective component (positive and negative affect) and a cognitive component (life satisfaction). Nevertheless, for the last five years, theoretical work and both quantitative and qualitative empirical work have suggested that the concept of subjective well-being omits both a lay and an Eastern way of understanding happiness. LÄS MER