COMMUTING SATISFACTION AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING: Linking life domains, workplace relocation and working from home practices

This dissertation examines the relationship between commuting satisfaction (CS) and subjective well-being (SWB) and investigates the dynamics of commuting. For the analysis, secondary data (EU-SILC, P-SELL III) as well as self-collected data from an online survey about changes in workplace location and working conditions were collected. The combination of these datasets allows the exploration of three important aspects of the relationship between CS and SWB. First, the direct and indirect effects of CS on SWB are examined by considering the interplay with satisfaction with other life domains t... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Maheshwari, Richa
Dokumenttyp: doctoral thesis
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Verlag/Hrsg.: Unilu - University of Luxembourg
Schlagwörter: Commuting satisfaction / Subjective well-being / Satisfaction with life domains / Workplace relocation / Time-use satisfaction / Luxembourg / Structural equation modelling / EU-SILC / P-SELL / Working conditions / COVID-19 / Social & behavioral sciences / psychology / Human geography & demography / Sciences sociales & comportementales / psychologie / Geographie humaine & démographie
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/56009

This dissertation examines the relationship between commuting satisfaction (CS) and subjective well-being (SWB) and investigates the dynamics of commuting. For the analysis, secondary data (EU-SILC, P-SELL III) as well as self-collected data from an online survey about changes in workplace location and working conditions were collected. The combination of these datasets allows the exploration of three important aspects of the relationship between CS and SWB. First, the direct and indirect effects of CS on SWB are examined by considering the interplay with satisfaction with other life domains than commuting, including among others work, accommodation, time-use, leisure time, personal relationships, and health. This is an important contribution to the field of travel satisfaction because it provides an in-depth analysis of how SWB depends not only on satisfaction with a typical commute to work, but also on satisfaction with other activities that are linked to commuting. Previous studies have examined the relationship between commuting satisfaction and SWB but have largely ignored satisfaction with other life domains. This is rather surprising given that commuting depends to a large extent on decisions people make regarding other life domains such as where to live and work. This dissertation thus provides a broader conceptualization of commuting satisfaction, avoiding certain biases that otherwise might exist when interactions with satisfaction with other life domains are ignored. Second, it explores the dynamics of commuting by analyzing the impact of life events on commuting (dis)satisfaction, and the reverse. This temporal dimension of CS adds a dynamic layer to the current static interpretation of travel satisfaction by examining changes in individuals' longer-term life decisions, such as residence and/or workplace location, focusing on voluntary and involuntary relocation. Voluntary workplace relocation occurs when the employee willingly decide to change their jobs, while the latter occurs when the employee is ...