Can Easterlin’s paradox be applied to the development of satisfaction with life or does the explanation lie in cultural geographical characteristics?

Murgaš, František

doi:10.31577/geogrcas.2019.71.1.01

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“…Apart from the psychologists' knowledge of the influence of our genes on the experience of quality of life or the knowledge of hedonic adaptation, the complexity of studying the quality of life influences not only the civilization differences at the level of collectivist and individualistic civilizations, but also the differences within these large civilizations (Murgaš 2019). It is apparent from our article that a statement a poor man = a low quality of life, and a rich man = a high quality of life does not apply.…”

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Quality of Urban Life in Socially Excluded Communities of Liberec Region

Murgaš

Drápela

2019

Int. Journal of Com. WB

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In current research on quality of life, the emphasis is on satisfaction with life that is called well-being. At the same time, many authors reject Easterlin's paradox, which was associated with the boom in exploring the quality of life in the 1960s and1970s in the twentieth century of modern history. In the article we understand the quality of life holistically twodimensionally as satisfaction with life and at the same time we examine the quality of place. We examine the quality of urban life in two cities of the Czech Republic, which are different size. We focus on socially excludes communities and the quality of life of their inhabitants. We understand socially excludes communities as communities of people suffering from social and material deprivation living in a place of very low quality. At the same time, we deal with the residents of these cities who do not live in socially excludes communities. In recent years, the Czech Republic has been experiencing unprecedented economic growth, resulting in the lowest unemployment rate across the European Union. Its surprising consequence (among others) is the simultaneous growth of the number of socially excluded communities that have developed in cities or be increasing the number of people facing repossessions. In line with previous findings, we expected a large difference between the satisfaction with life in the form of ill-being among residents od socially excludes communities in two towns in the Liberec region and satisfaction with life in the form of well-being among residents who do not live in socially excluded communities. We assumed the same result in the evaluation of satisfaction with the quality of place where both groups of residents of these cities live. In accordance with that, the hypothesis is formulated. Surprisingly, however, the measurement of satisfaction with life and quality of place brought the recognition of a high level of satisfaction with life and a slightly lower but still high level of quality of place by the inhabitants of socially excluded localities. The hypothesis was not confirmed.

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Quality of Urban Life in Socially Excluded Communities of Liberec Region

Murgaš

Drápela

2019

Int. Journal of Com. WB

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“…Happiness is significantly influenced by culture; it can be said that happiness-as well as quality of life-is "culturally anchored" [1]. Culture has an impact primarily on the geographical differentiation of happiness at the level of nations.…”

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“…Murgaš [1] dealt with cultural and geographical influences on satisfaction with life. The influence of culture on happiness was studied by Shin [55] in the USA, Russia, Australia, Japan, China, and India.…”

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“…After the collapse of the bipolar world in the early 1990s, these countries were joined by the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, which went through a period of fundamental political, social, and economic change, called transition. The most successful of these countries, referred to as "post-transitional", were Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary, known as the Visegrad Group (V4), as well as Slovenia [1]. In some economic indicators, these countries have overtaken the less developed countries of Western Europe, such as Portugal and Greece.…”

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Happiness in Czechia during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021

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The unprecedented growth of prosperity in developed countries, including the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, interrupted by the economic crisis in 2008–2009, came to a halt at the beginning of 2020. This was due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 respiratory disease pandemic, for which no cure was known in June 2020. The response of governments in the form of declaring a state of emergency and closing national and regional borders for several months had serious economic and, above all, psychological consequences. Anxiety, depression, and possibly suicides were expected to increase. In this paper, we focused on the experience of happiness, understood as positive emotion, expressing the highest degree of well-being. The conceptualization of happiness is based on the analysis of six indicators. The aim of the paper was to explore the experience of happiness during the COVID-19 pandemic in Czechia. Two hypotheses were formulated in terms of the expected effects of this pandemic on the experience of happiness. Measuring happiness in one region of the Czechia on a scale of 0–10 using both face-to-face methods and social networks yielded different results from those expected.

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“…Reisinger and Crotts (2010) compared 608 tourists from 8 countries by their Hofstede dimensions, and found that the cultural traits of tourists do not differ much from the general cultural profiles of their countries as established by the original Hofstede results. Murgaš (2019) analysing the satisfaction with life in the Czechia found, that it is related to the cultural characteristics of the nation state. In contrasting the Czech society to the Danish one, he states that Denmark is the happiest country in the world according to the Global Happiness Index, and Czechia is just around the average, while the Hofstede cultural dimensions of the two countries considerably differ.…”

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Influence of national culture and environmental awareness on the demand for domestic camping tourism – a cross-country analysis among European countries

Bacsi¹,

Szanati²

2021

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Influence of national culture and environmental awareness on the demand for domestic camping tourisma cross-country analysis among European countries Natural resources are major resources for tourism. Nature-based tourism is one of the tourism forms with an increasing appeal. Camping tourism is an important part of nature-based tourism and it plays a significant role in domestic tourism, representing approximately 10% of total tourist nights in the EU, though countries differ to a great extent. The decision to choose a camping holiday depends on the tourists' preferences and values. The aim of the paper is to identify the extent to which national cultural traits and environmental consciousness influence the domestic demand for camping holidays. The paper demonstrates by way of multiple regression analysis of 25 EU countries in 7 years (2012 -2018) that this decision is correlated to Hofstede's 6 national cultural dimensions and national income levels, while the environmental awareness of the population does not have any significant influence on it.

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Can Easterlin’s paradox be applied to the development of satisfaction with life or does the explanation lie in cultural geographical characteristics?

Cited by 12 publications

References 17 publications

Quality of Urban Life in Socially Excluded Communities of Liberec Region

Quality of Urban Life in Socially Excluded Communities of Liberec Region

Happiness in Czechia during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Influence of national culture and environmental awareness on the demand for domestic camping tourism – a cross-country analysis among European countries

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