Are happy people healthier? An instrumental variable approach using data from Greece

Kyriopoulos, Ilias; Athanasakis, Kostas; Kyriopoulos, John

doi:10.1136/jech-2018-210568

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“…However, the ndings from this study indicated that inequality in happiness is real and is highly depends on some socioeconomic factors that are also responsible for other sorts of inequalities. As such recently Kyriopoulos et al provided evidence that a strong relationship exist between happiness and self-reported health among lower educated and those from lower socioeconomic status [14].…”

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Happiness inequality in young adults: a nationwide cross sectional study from Iran

Montazeri¹,

Tavousi²,

Haerimehrizi³

et al. 2019

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Objective The correlation between happiness and health is well established. This study aimed to measure happiness and its correlates among a sample of young adults in Iran. As such a national cross sectional study was conducted and the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (OHQ) was administered to measure happiness. We performed logistic regression analysis to examine the relationship between happiness and independent variables. Results In all 14292 young adults (7702 female and 6590 male) were completed the questionnaire. The mean happiness score for the study sample was 4.09 (SD = 0.57) out of 6; indicative of a condition that is named as ‘rather happy; pretty happy’. The results obtained from multiple logistic regression analysis showed insignificant association between happiness, age, gender, and education whereas the association between happiness and income [OR for poor/very poor= 1.69, 95% CI: 1.51-1.90] and employment status [OR for unemployed = 1.88, 95% CI: 1.53-2.32] was significant. In addition separate analyses for men and women showed that income and employment still were significant for men but for women only income was significant.

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confidence: 96%

Happiness inequality in young adults: a nationwide cross sectional study from Iran

Montazeri¹,

Tavousi²,

Haerimehrizi³

et al. 2019

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“…Numerous studies have shown positive effects of subjective well-being on physiological health. For instance, literature has revealed that happy individuals have better self-rated physical health [ 35 ]. In addition, subjective well-being is also linked with a reduced likelihood of all-cause morbidity among the older population [ 36 ].…”

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Being Creative Makes You Happier: The Positive Effect of Creativity on Subjective Well-Being

Tan

Chuah

Lee

2021

IJERPH

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The impact of happiness on creativity is well-established. However, little is known about the effect of creativity on well-being. Two studies were thus conducted to examine the impact of creativity on subjective well-being. In the first study, 256 undergraduate students (Study 1a) and 291 working adults (Study 1b) self-reported their creativity, stress, and subjective well-being. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed a positive relationship between creativity and subjective well-being after controlling the effect of self-perceived stress and demographics in both samples. Study 2 then employed an experimental design to examine the causal relationship between creativity and subjective well-being. Half of the 68 undergraduates underwent a creativity priming task followed by a divergent thinking test as well as self-reported stress and subjective well-being. The priming task was found to boost creative performance in the pilot study (Study 2a) and the actual study (Study 2b). Moreover, after controlling the effect of self-perceived stress, ANCOVA analysis showed that participants receiving the priming reported higher subjective well-being scores than their counterparts in the control group. The overall findings not only shed light on the facilitative effect of creativity on subjective well-being but also highlight the necessity of considering the reciprocal relationship of the two constructs in future research.

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“… 7 7 The case of using a binary endogenous variable with 2SLS was analysed by Angrist and Psichke (2008), who reached the conclusion that using the “garden‐variety 2SLS” (i.e. common 2SLS, in which having a binary treatment means having a linear probability model in the first stage) would be the best alternative (Kyriopoulos et al, 2018; Carlin, Olafsson, & Pagel, 2019). Thus, this is the methodology that we employed in the present study.…”

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The impact of test language on PISA scores. New evidence from Wales

Jerrim

López-Agudo

Gutiérrez

2022

British Educational Res J

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In this paper we investigate the link between the language in which pupils take the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test and the scores they achieve in this assessment, focusing upon the case of Wales. Using five rounds of PISA data and an instrumental variable approach, we show how pupils who took the test in Welsh score around 0.3 standard deviations (30 PISA test points) lower in reading, mathematics and science than their peers who took the test in English. This finding is robust to different model specifications and statistical approaches. We argue that this may indicate that the academic performance of teenagers in Wales may be underestimated in PISA -particularly amongst those who take this test in Welsh. K E Y W O R D Shome language, PISA, test language, Wales | 421 THE IMPACT OF TEST LANGUAGE ON PISA SCORES. NEW EVIDENCE FROM WALES Notes: All OECD recommended practices (final student weights and balanced repeated replication (BRR) weights) have been employed. The "-" indicates that there are no data for that region in the PISA cycle.

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Are happy people healthier? An instrumental variable approach using data from Greece

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Cited by 6 publications

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Happiness inequality in young adults: a nationwide cross sectional study from Iran

Happiness inequality in young adults: a nationwide cross sectional study from Iran

Being Creative Makes You Happier: The Positive Effect of Creativity on Subjective Well-Being

The impact of test language on PISA scores. New evidence from Wales

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