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Subjective Well-Being and Social Capital in Belgian Communities. The Impact of Community Characteristics on Subjective Well-Being Indicators in Belgium
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Hooghe, Marc Vanhoutte, Bram |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | In this article, we investigate the effect of individual and community level characteristics on subjective well-being in Belgium. Various indicators for subjective well-being are being used in a multilevel analysis of the 2009 SCIF survey (n = 2,080) and the 2006 Belgian ESS sample (n = 1,798). On the individual level, most hypotheses on the determinants of subjective well-being were confirmed. Living with a partner and age were shown to have strong effects, but also social capital indicators had a significant positive effect on subjective well-being. All these effects remained significant controlling for optimism. On the community level, especially unemployment rate had a negative impact on subjective well-being. The analysis further demonstrates that in homogeneous regions, community characteristics have a far weaker impact on subjective well-being indicators than in economically more heterogeneous regions. |
| Starting Page | 17 |
| Ending Page | 36 |
| Page Count | 20 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11205-010-9600-0 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?datastreamId=POST-PEER-REVIEW-PUBLISHERS.PDF&publicationPid=uk-ac-man-scw:153112 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-010-9600-0 |
| Volume Number | 100 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
