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On decentralization and life satisfaction
Economics Letters, 2008Abstract We empirically analyze the impact of fiscal and political decentralization on subjective well-being in a cross-section of 60,000 individuals from 66 countries. More spending or revenue decentralization raises well-being while greater local autonomy is beneficial only via government consumption spending.
Bjørnskov, Christian +2 more
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The Satisfaction With Life Scale
Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 2013The SWLS consists of 5-items that require a ratingon a 7-point Likert scale. Administration is rarely morethan a minute or 2 and can be completed by interview(including phone) or paper and pencil response. The in-strumentshouldnotbecompletedbyaproxyansweringfortheperson.Itemsofthe SWLSaresummedtocreatea total score that can range from 5 to 35.The SWLS ...
John D, Corrigan +4 more
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Forgivingness and Satisfaction with Life
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2003The present study was aimed at examining the link between satisfaction with life and forgivingness using a dispositional measurement for forgiveness. The participants were 810 adolescent and adults living in France, and 192 college students living in Portugal. They were presented with the Forgivingness questionnaire (Mullet, E., J. Barros, L.
Munoz Sastre, M.T. +4 more
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Job Satisfaction and Satisfaction with Life
Sociological Research, 2001For a long time, relatively high levels of satisfaction with life were recorded in the USSR. However, in the second half of the 1980s, and especially in the 1990s, the situation changed considerably. Assessments of everyday life fell substantially and continued to decline, as evidenced by the findings of lifestyle studies [1, pp.
Galina P. Bessokirnaia +1 more
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Taking the satisfaction (and the life) out of life satisfaction
Philosophical Explorations, 2011The science of well-being studies an evaluative kind, well-being, which raises natural worries about the ability of empirical research to deliver. This paper argues that well-being research can provide important information about how people are doing without entangling itself very deeply in controversial normative claims.
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The Dynamic Process of Life Satisfaction
Journal of Personality, 2006Drawing from the Cognitive Affective Personality System (Mischel & Shoda, 1995, 1998), we argue for a need to examine within-individual variation in life satisfaction. Thus, employing a diary study of 76 fully employed, married adults we examined the magnitude, antecedents, and consequences of intra-individual variation in life satisfaction.
Heller, Daniel +2 more
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Life Satisfaction in Three Countries
Psychological Reports, 2004Studies addressing factors of Life Satisfaction have focused on how individuals in particular societies experience their lives as worthwhile, enjoyable, and fulfilling and indicated a range of individual and cultural factors shape individual perceptions of Life Satisfaction.
McConatha, Jasmin Tahmaseb +4 more
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Measurement of life satisfaction. Developing a life satisfaction scale.
Comprehensive gerontology. Section B, Behavioural, social, and applied sciences, 1989The purpose of this study was to develop a life satisfaction scale (LSS) suited for elderly Finnish people. The subjects were non-institutionalized elderly living in rural and urban areas in south-western Finland. They were interviewed for a prospective follow-up study (TURVA project) concerned with the psychosocial development of elderly people during
R K, Salokangas, M, Joukamaa, V, Mattila
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2008
Abstract For as long as anyone can remember, the message from on high was generally some form of “You’ll eat it and you’ll like it.” Or, like Job, you won’t. As far as the authorities were concerned, it didn’t much matter whether you liked it. The sages who advised us in the betterment of life accordingly tended to focus their efforts on
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Abstract For as long as anyone can remember, the message from on high was generally some form of “You’ll eat it and you’ll like it.” Or, like Job, you won’t. As far as the authorities were concerned, it didn’t much matter whether you liked it. The sages who advised us in the betterment of life accordingly tended to focus their efforts on
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Constraint and Life Satisfaction
Journal of Gerontology, 1972K J, Smith, A, Lipman
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