Finding the skeleton key to happiness: evaluating model invariance of subjective well-being in a comparison of large urban centres worldwide

Pub Date : 2019-10-28 DOI:10.1504/ijhd.2019.10025014
K. Cramer, Rebecca Pschibul
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How well we can we predict a citizen's happiness? Numerous antecedent factors - including higher creativity, optimism, longevity; and lower hostility and self-centredness - have been identified as important. The present study compared the antecedents that contribute to personal happiness from several large urban centres around the world, testing the hypothesis of model invariance that supposes any given model may be applied globally. Data from an archival dataset (Lee, 2006) included various elements of city life: economy, culture and education, income, safety, living conditions, city administration, health, city pride, and current level of happiness. Results showed each urban centre required a unique profile of antecedents, offering little evidence to support the invariance assumption. Overall, health was the most common predictor of happiness (especially for males), followed by city pride and household income. Lower explained variance was typical among the samples, suggesting that additional factors are required to capture the scope of urban quality of life. Future research directions are discussed.
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寻找幸福的关键:在全球大型城市中心的比较中评估主观幸福感的模型不变性
我们能在多大程度上预测一个公民的幸福?许多先行因素-包括更高的创造力、乐观主义、长寿;以及降低敌意和以自我为中心-被认为是重要的。本研究比较了世界上几个大城市中心有助于个人幸福的前因,检验了假设任何给定模型都可以在全球应用的模型不变性假设。来自档案数据集的数据(Lee,2006)包括城市生活的各种要素:经济、文化和教育、收入、安全、生活条件、城市管理、健康、城市自豪感和当前幸福水平。结果表明,每个城市中心都需要一个独特的前因档案,几乎没有证据支持不变性假设。总体而言,健康是幸福感的最常见预测因素(尤其是男性),其次是城市自豪感和家庭收入。较低的解释方差在样本中是典型的,这表明需要额外的因素来捕捉城市生活质量的范围。讨论了未来的研究方向。
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