Searching for Happiness: The Importance of Social Capital

Leung, Ambrose; Kier, Cheryl A.; Fung, Tak; Fung, Linda; Sproule, Robert

doi:10.1007/s10902-010-9208-8

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“…As regards the other instrument, social trust has been found to be significantly and positively correlated with happiness in most individual-level studies on social capital and well-being (see, for example, Diener and Seligman 2004;Heliweel 2006;Bjørnskov 2008;Leung et al 2011;Requena 2010). The correlation has been confirmed also at the cross-country level (Bjørnskov 2006).…”

Section: Instrumental Variablesmentioning

confidence: 83%

The relationship between happiness and health: Evidence from Italy

Sabatini

2014

Social Science & Medicine

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We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample (n = 817) of the population of the Italian Province of Trento in March 2011. Based on probit regressions, instrumental variables estimates and structural equations modelling, we find that happiness is strongly correlated with perceived good health, after controlling for a number of relevant socio-economic phenomena. Health inequalities based on income, work status and education are relatively contained in respect to the rest of Italy. As expected, this scales down the role of social capital.

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Section: Instrumental Variablesmentioning

confidence: 83%

The relationship between happiness and health: Evidence from Italy

Sabatini

2014

Social Science & Medicine

119

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“…A large strand of literature suggests that individual happiness is largely influenced by social capital such as trust, social interactions and civic traditions (Putnam 2000;Helliwell and Putnam 2004;Winkelmann 2009;Leung et al 2011;Helliwell and Barrington-Leigh 2011;Rodriguez-Pose and von Berlepsch 2011). Table 4 introduces the estimated empirical happiness model with social capital and trust covariates.…”

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Institutional Origins of Subjective Well-Being: Estimating the Effects of Economic Freedom on National Happiness

Spruk

Kešeljević

2015

J Happiness Stud

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We exploit the cross-country differences in economic freedom to examine the link between the quality of institutions and subjective well-being. Using Veenhoven's happiness dataset, the evidence suggests countries with better economic institutions and higher level of economic freedom, captured by the security of property rights, open markets and more limited government, are significantly more likely to experience greater subjective well-being after controlling for structural confounders of national subjective well-being such as income, unemployment, inequality, social capital and life satisfaction. The effect of institutions on cross-national happiness is both significant and robust to different model specifications, estimation techniques and possible sources of endogeneity. Furthermore, our panel data analysis reveals that over time higher levels of economic freedom are associated with decreasing subjective well-being after controlling for state dependence and income.

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“…Furthermore, with the deepening of research, it is found that the emotion experience of community residents and the stock of social capital owned by residents have an important role in the residents' life satisfaction [20,21]. Therefore, a question arises as to whether there is a relationship between social capital, emotion experience and life satisfaction and whether the relationship between them to generate synergies and strengthen the effect of promoting community sustainable development.…”

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Examining Relationships between Social Capital, Emotion Experience and Life Satisfaction for Sustainable Community

Zou

Wang

2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:As an important component of urban construction, the community sustainable construction is of great significance to the social development. Despite the importance of the social dimension of community sustainability, it has received relatively little attention when compared to the sustainability of environmental and economic dimensions. Based on the literature review, it is found that the social dimension of the sustainable community, such as residents' psychological feelings, social capital, has a strong effect on the sustainability of communities. This paper, therefore, conducts an empirical study on the mediating role of emotion experience on the associations between social capital and life satisfaction. Research on the relationship between them can help to generate synergies and strengthen the effect of promoting community sustainable development. A total of 229 complete responses from residents in China is used for data analysis. Results from the multiple linear regression analysis indicate that social capital has the significant positive effect on life satisfaction; the influence of social capital on life satisfaction is partly mediated by positive and negative affect, the social capital improves the life satisfaction through promoting positive affect, while it enhances the life satisfaction through restraining the negative affect. Based on the relationship between them, the relevant recommendations for the measures on the sustainable community can be proposed.

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Searching for Happiness: The Importance of Social Capital

Abstract: Happiness, Social capital, Trust, Obligations, Information channel,

Cited by 160 publications

References 29 publications

The relationship between happiness and health: Evidence from Italy

The relationship between happiness and health: Evidence from Italy

Institutional Origins of Subjective Well-Being: Estimating the Effects of Economic Freedom on National Happiness

Examining Relationships between Social Capital, Emotion Experience and Life Satisfaction for Sustainable Community

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