Satisfaction and social position: within nation differences compared accross nations
January 1996
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pp 253-261.
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ABSTRACT Within countries, there is little relationship between individual satisfaction and social position as measured by gender, age, income and education. This well-known pattern of non-difference remains after correction for measurement error. The pattern is quite similar across nations. The findings do not fit comparison-theory very well, but they do match folklore-theory. Interpretation in terms of livability-theory suggests that these positional differences do not involve much variation in net life-chances in the societies at hand here.
Keywords
- social class
- life satisfaction
- subjective well-being
- happiness
- comparative
- SES
- cross-national
- stratification
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