The Determinants of Happiness in Indonesia

Rahayu, Theresia Puji

doi:10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n2p393

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“…As a strong collectivist society, the Indonesian people place strong emphasis on social connection as an important aspect of life. Other research in the Indonesian context has indicated that positive mutual relationships are an essential aspect of a meaningful life (Rahayu, ; Schwarz et al., ). The cultivation of mutual relationships provides individuals with important emotional and instrumental supports (Schwarz et al., ), such as social trust and feelings of security (Rahayu, ), which then lead to an enhanced sense of well‐being.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Finally, as a society that strongly emphasises religious values, it is unsurprising that spirituality has been shown in numerous studies to be an important aspect of Indonesian society (Lun & Bond, ; Rahayu, ). Affiliation with religious teaching and values may help to maintain stronger social connections in a highly religious society (Alawiyah & Held, ) and establish a sense of security (Primasari & Yuniarti, ).…”

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Development and validation of the Indonesian Well‐being Scale

Maulana

Khawaja

Obst

2019

Asian J of Social Psycho

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The present study describes the development and validation of a new instrument to measure the well-being of Indonesian people. Items were generated by taking into account the recent cross-cultural developments in the literature. Participants (N = 1,028) from a number of provinces in Indonesia completed an online or a paper questionnaire containing a battery of measures, including the new well-being instrument. The total sample was randomly split into two equal groups. An exploratory factor analysis (n = 516) was conducted on one half to explore the factor structure of the new scale, which resulted in a 24-item scale with a fourfactor solution. The four factors were (a) Basic Needs, (b) Social Relation, (c) Acceptance, and (d) Spirituality. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted on the second half (n = 516), which confirmed the four-factor structure with 20 items emerging as the best and most parsimonious fit of the data. The psychometric properties of the final scale were tested on the whole sample. The new scale displayed sound internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and divergent, convergent, and discriminant validity. The scale has the potential to be used in future research which examines well-being in the Indonesia context. Future directions and limitations of the study are discussed.

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Section: Measurement Of Well‐beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development and validation of the Indonesian Well‐being Scale

Maulana

Khawaja

Obst

2019

Asian J of Social Psycho

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“…Meanwhile, Bockerman et al (2011) found that an individual who has chronic condition such as disorder of lung function, heart, muscles, hearing, sight, neurosis and psychiatric problem has lower happiness level. Rahayu (2016) reported that individuals with higher perceived general health status have greater happiness. Meanwhile, by using multidimensional instrument such as EuroQol-5 Dimension (EQ-5D) and Short Form-5 Dimension (SF-5D), researchers can examine deeper the influence of each dimension.…”

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“…Empirical researches indicate the existence of positive influence of health on subjective well-being (Oswald et al, 2006;Mukuria et al, 2012;Bockerman et al, 2011;Sohn, 2014;Wang et al, 2000;Rahayu, 2016). Individuals with a better health status have a higher level of happiness.…”

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“…Individuals with a better health status have a higher level of happiness. To measure the level of happiness, previous research use different scale of self-reported subjective well-being such as 3 scale (Sohn, 2014;Rahayu, 2016), 4 scale (Wang et al, 2015); 5 scale (Mukuria et al, 2013), 7 scale (Oswald et al, 2006) and 10 scale (Bockerman et al, 2011). Previous studies also use various health measures such as anthropometric indicators, diagnosed disease or chronic condition and subjective health status.…”

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Does Better Physical Function Make People Happier?

Budidharma¹,

Wahyuni

2017

ASS

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The objective of this paper is analyzing the impact of health status on the subjective well-being. The study uses the recent data from Indonesian Family Life Survey and the physical function index as a proxy for health status. Ordered Logit regression is performed to estimate the impact of the physical function on the subjective well-being. The study employs an instrumental variable approach to address the endogeneity issue of the physical function. After controlling for socioeconomic and demographic factors, it is found that the physical function has a positive effect on the subjective well-being. On average, an increase in 1 percent of an individual physical function will increase a probability of being very happy by 1.5 percent. However, this impact is decreased after including mental health on the regression model. Since the magnitude of the coefficient in IV-Ordered Logit is larger than in ordinary Ordered Logit, we interpret that there is no existence of a reversed causality. Then, it can be concluded that the physical function is a predictor for the subjective well-being.

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Impact of socioeconomic conditions on happiness: Evidence from emerging market economies

Kumari

Sahu

Sahoo

et al. 2021

Journal of Public Affairs

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The objective of the present study is to examine the impact of socioeconomic conditions on happiness in 21 Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) with the help of three sub-samples comprising America, Asia, and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) countries from 2006 to 2019. For this objective, panel corrected standard error model is used to resolve the problem of cross-sectional dependence, groupwise heteroscedasticity, and panel autocorrelation. The results of the study reveal that economic growth plays a positive role in determining the happiness of EMEs of America and EMEA sample countries. At the same time, globalisation and inflation affect the happiness of people in American sample countries in a negative way. In the sample of Asian countries, social support has a substantial impact on happiness. Corruption in the government and business sectors reduces the happiness of selected countries of both Asia and America. This article contributes to the existing literature by first time considering EMEs which have undergone liberalisation reforms and experienced transformation in their socioeconomic conditions. In conclusion, the study suggests that GDP per capita and social support positively stimulates happiness while the perception of corruption negatively impacts happiness in selected EMEs.These implications can help in building a line of actions for strengthening anti-corruption institutions and promoting social integrations among these EMEs.

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The Determinants of Happiness in Indonesia

Abstract: This study aims to examine determinants of happiness in Indonesia. This research use cross-section IFLS data wave IV, 2007

Cited by 24 publications

References 46 publications

Development and validation of the Indonesian Well‐being Scale

Development and validation of the Indonesian Well‐being Scale

Does Better Physical Function Make People Happier?

Impact of socioeconomic conditions on happiness: Evidence from emerging market economies

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