Diagnosing Unhappiness Dynamics: Evidence from Poland and Russia

Brzeziński, Michał

doi:10.1007/s10902-018-0044-6

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“…An illustrative study has connected respondents’ anxiety to increasing social and income disparities, and to the major contrast between the financial difficulties of the majority of Poles and the abnormally high earnings of the fewer transitional “winners” ( Watson, 2004 ). In short, economic and social uncertainties have contributed to lower wellbeing in Poland ( Brzezinski, 2019 ).…”

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Social Mobility, Health and Wellbeing in Poland

2021

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Recently there has been a surge of interest in the consequences of intergenerational social mobility on individuals’ health and wellbeing outcomes. However, studies on the effects of social mobility on health, using high-quality panel survey data, have almost exclusively been conducted in Western welfare democracies. To account for this gap, and using empirical data from one of the largest and most eventful post-communist countries, Poland, in this study we investigate how individuals’ origin and destination socio-economic position and social mobility are linked to self-rated health and reported psychological wellbeing. We use the Polish Panel Survey (POLPAN) data to construct self-rated health and psychological wellbeing measures, origin, destination and occupational class mobility variables, and account for an extensive set of sociodemographic determinants of health. We employ diagonal reference models to distinguish social mobility effects from origin and destination effects, and account for possible health selection mechanisms. Our results suggest that there is an occupational class gradient in health in Poland and that both parental and own occupational class matter for individual health outcomes. We also find a positive reported psychological wellbeing effect for upward social mobility from the working to the professional class.

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Social Mobility, Health and Wellbeing in Poland

2021

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“…Second, we only know the factors related to SWB. Although past research has indicated that a country's macroeconomic conditions are important for life satisfaction ( Brezezinski, 2019 ; Ferrer-i-Carbonell & Van Praag, 2001 ; Graham et al, 2004 ; Saris & Andreenkova, 2001 ; Veenhoven, 2001 ), it remains to be addressed whether we observe similar patterns when physical health and SWB are combined in one measurement of health expectancy.…”

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“…Second, a continued increase in SWB was observed throughout the post-Soviet period. An analysis by Brzezinski (2019) used data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey of Higher School of Economics (RLMS-HSE) and reported significant reductions in unhappiness, as defined by the percentage of respondents who were not at all or less than satisfied with life or neither satisfied or unsatisfied with life, for the period between 1994 and 2014. Upward trends in SWB have been observed in other post-communist countries, narrowing the gap between Eastern and Western Europe ( Djankov et al, 2015 ).…”

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“…Patterns of gross domestic product (GDP) growth have been shown to be similar to those of life satisfaction in the former communist countries ( Easterlin, 2009 ). In Russia, growth in personal income and return to employment have had a strong impact on changes in the levels of life satisfaction ( Brzezinski, 2019 ; Graham, Eggers, & Sukhtankar, 2004 ).…”

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Trends in happy life expectancy in Russia, 1994–2015

Minagawa

2022

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Although the physical health status of the Russian population has improved over time, limited attention has been paid to the role of subjective well-being (SWB), and even less is known about its relationship with objective health conditions. Using the concept of health expectancy, this study estimates the number of years expected to be satisfied with life (happy life expectancy [LE]) for Russian men and women aged 50 years and older between 1994 and 2015. Data on age-specific prevalence rates of life satisfaction were obtained from the Russian Longitudinal Study of Higher School of Economics (RLMS-HSE), and the life tables were from the Human Life Table Database. We also tested the correlation between macroeconomic indicators and happy LE at age 50. Results based on the Sullivan method demonstrated substantial increases in happy LE at age 50 for both genders during the study period. Changes in happy LE and the percentage of happy life were significant for both genders. Furthermore, happy LE fluctuated during the 1990s but increased in the early 2000s. Importantly, the results from more recent years show stagnation and slight declines in happy LE for men and women. We also noted correlations between happy LE at age 50 and macroeconomic indicators, including gross domestic product (GDP), inflation, unemployment, and poverty rates. Taken together, the findings suggest that Russian men and women are becoming more satisfied with life as they live longer. While health has mainly been measured by mortality and morbidity in the Russian context, the finding suggests the importance of focusing more on the positive aspect of population health.

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“…On the negative effects of transition on happiness, especially for Poland and Russia, seeBrzezinski (2019).…”

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Environmentally Responsible Happy Nation Index: A Proposed National Success Indicator

2021

Happiness—Concept, Measurement and Promotion

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The average happy life years HLY (of a country) is the product of the average happiness (or life satisfaction) index and the life expectancy index. Adjusting HLY to get rid of the misleading parts with negative happiness to obtain the adjusted or net HLY; deducting again the per-capita environmental costs imposed on others, we obtain the ‘environmentally responsible happy nation index’ as an internationally acceptable national success indicator that accounts positively for long and happy lives but negatively at the external costs of environmental disruption imposed on others and in the future. Hopefully, this ‘environmentally responsible happy nation index’ will lead to some re-orientation of both the market and national governments towards something more fundamentally valuable.

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Diagnosing Unhappiness Dynamics: Evidence from Poland and Russia

Cited by 7 publications

References 79 publications

Social Mobility, Health and Wellbeing in Poland

Social Mobility, Health and Wellbeing in Poland

Trends in happy life expectancy in Russia, 1994–2015

Environmentally Responsible Happy Nation Index: A Proposed National Success Indicator

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