Subjective Well-Being and Social Capital in Belgian Communities. The Impact of Community Characteristics on Subjective Well-Being Indicators in Belgium
In this article, we investigate the effect of individual and community level characteristics on subjective well-being in Belgium. Various indicators for subjective well-being are being used in a multilevel analysis of the 2009 SCIF survey (n = 2,080) and the 2006 Belgian ESS sample (n = 1,798). On the individual level, most hypotheses on the determinants of subjective well-being were confirmed. Living with a partner and age were shown to have strong effects, but also social capital indicators had a significant positive effect on subjective well-being. All these effects remained significant con... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2011 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Hooghe , M & Vanhoutte , B 2011 , ' Subjective Well-Being and Social Capital in Belgian Communities. The Impact of Community Characteristics on Subjective Well-Being Indicators in Belgium ' , Social Indicators Research , vol. 100 , no. 1 , pp. 17-36 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-010-9600-0 |
Schlagwörter: | Belgium / Community characteristics / European social survey / Multi-level research / Social indicators Flanders / Subjective well-being |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28943046 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/83e02c55-f6f5-4143-93fa-0ad79718c05d |
In this article, we investigate the effect of individual and community level characteristics on subjective well-being in Belgium. Various indicators for subjective well-being are being used in a multilevel analysis of the 2009 SCIF survey (n = 2,080) and the 2006 Belgian ESS sample (n = 1,798). On the individual level, most hypotheses on the determinants of subjective well-being were confirmed. Living with a partner and age were shown to have strong effects, but also social capital indicators had a significant positive effect on subjective well-being. All these effects remained significant controlling for optimism. On the community level, especially unemployment rate had a negative impact on subjective well-being. The analysis further demonstrates that in homogeneous regions, community characteristics have a far weaker impact on subjective well-being indicators than in economically more heterogeneous regions. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.