A life course model for a domains-of-life approach to happiness: Evidence from the United States

Against All Odds or by Dint of Privilege? Happiness and Life Satisfaction Returns to College in America

“…Moreover, at the same time, subjective evaluations trace separately to objective resources and evaluations of those same resources (Bardo 2017); it remains unclear from these findings to what extent gender differences in life satisfaction returns to college trace to differing subjective evaluation processes between men and women as opposed to objective resource differences involving occupational or social attainments after college between men and women.…”

“…Across the twentieth century, social expectations, consequences, and meanings for and of college shifted greatly Hout 2012). Beyond having an education itself, individuals achieve happiness or life satisfaction on the grounds of their socioeconomic attainments enabled by higher educational credentials, such as occupational, income, neighborhood, community, and marital attainments and prospects after graduation (Mirowsky and Ross 2003;Schwartz and Mare 2005), and individuals hold and face subjective interpretations and normative expectations for these subsequent life-course transitions as well (Bardo 2017;Elder 1994;Settersten 2003).…”

The Effects of Serious Leisure Involvement on Subjective Well-Being and Successful Aging: A Case Study of Young-Old Participants in Chinese Seniors’ Universities

“…Research in this field is often concerned with positive emotions such as happiness. For example, Bardo (2017) pointed out that happiness is the product of the combination of satisfaction in different fields. With increasing age, happiness declines in some areas.…”

Tracking the effects of life events on subjective well-being

“…Previous studies in this field have mainly focused on overall subjective well-being instead of domain-specific well-being Clark et al, 2008;Clark & Oswald, 2006;Fonseca et al, 2017;Pollmann-Schult, 2014), even though such an approach is widely recognized. However, those studies which observed domain-specific subjective well-being over the life course either narrowed their focus to only one specific life event (Bernardi et al, 2017;Lapa, 2013) or one specific domain (Clark et al, 1996;Glenn et al, 1977;Plagnol, 2011;Rollins & Cannon, 1974;Zacher et al, 2014) or they observed ageing effects on subjective well-being instead of life-cycle effect (Bardo, 2017;Schafer et al, 2013). Thus, there is only limited research on this topic (Easterlin, 2006), especially in Hungary.…”

“…Most of the previous studies have focused only on a certain life event, or only on one specific sub-domain. Only a few studies have observed the effect of all life stages on domain-specific subjective well-being, and most of these were either admittedly explanatory or observed only the effect of ageing instead of the effect of life stages (Bardo, 2017;Schafer, Mustillo, & Ferraro, 2013).…”