Social Indicators Research最新文献

{"title":"'Beyond GDP' Requires Replacement, Not Just Additional Metrics.","authors":"Jeroen van den Bergh","doi":"10.1007/s11205-026-03837-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11205-026-03837-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Political decision-making remains dominated by GDP, often at the expense of social and environmental concerns. Indicator dashboards have so far had limited impact on core policy decisions in this regard. This article argues that only replacing GDP with a comprehensive aggregate metric can overcome its dominance. To illustrate which alternative is most likely to succeed, the concept of \"perception distance\" (or similarity) to GDP is introduced, formalized and compared across key options. Furthermore, it is argued that replacing GDP with a superior aggregate metric will enhance the effectiveness of the additive approach as the new headline metric reduces tension with disaggregate domain indicators for wellbeing, inequality and sustainability.</p>","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"182 2","pages":"35"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13035633/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147594522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Young People's Subjective Wellbeing in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from a Representative Cohort Study in England.","authors":"Jake Anders, Erica Holt-White","doi":"10.1007/s11205-025-03776-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11205-025-03776-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption it has caused had substantial short-term effects on young people. These effects have been found to be highly unequal, exacerbating existing inequalities in society, including those associated with socio-economic status, gender and ethnicity. But, just as importantly, it is believed that they continue to cast a long shadow over some young people's lives. In this paper we use data from the COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities study (COSMO) - a representative cohort study of over 13,000 young people in England aged 14-15 at pandemic onset whose education and post-16 transitions were acutely affected by the pandemic's disruption through their remaining education and subsequent transitions - to highlight inequalities in young people's subjective wellbeing and mental health in the wake of the pandemic. We document the substantial differences in subjective wellbeing - especially highlighting differences by gender - after adjusting for other demographic characteristics, self-reported levels of social support, and experience of adverse life events. We estimate how wellbeing differs by young people's own perceptions of the ongoing impact of the pandemic: those who indicate an ongoing negative impact in their lives have substantially lower subjective wellbeing scores. Finally, we find a link between adverse life experiences during the pandemic and lower post-pandemic wellbeing, but do not find evidence that this is mediated by demographic characteristics or social support.</p>","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"181 2","pages":"62"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12830484/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146046691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating a 'UBI Plus' Intervention: A Needs-based Analysis of WorkFREE.","authors":"Joel Lazarus, Sarath Davala, Maria Franchi, Neil Howard, Nick Langridge, Santosh Malviya, Vibhor Mathur","doi":"10.1007/s11205-026-03806-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11205-026-03806-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As pilots in Universal Basic Income (UBI) pilots proliferate, there is increasing recognition that cash alone may not be enough to support envisioned transformation. Consequently, recent years have seen pilots in 'UBI Plus' - combinations of unconditional cash transfers with other social interventions. In this article, we present a mixed-methods needs-based evaluation of WorkFREE, a major UBI Plus pilot. Between 2020 and 2024, WorkFREE brought together UK and Indian researchers, a local NGO, and over 1,400 slum residents (295 households) in city name, India. WorkFREE participants received monthly unconditional cash transfers for eighteen months whilst participating in regular needs-focused 'Plus meetings'. This article's authors oversaw the design, implementation, and evaluation of WorkFREE both as a research project and pilot intervention. Locating human needs at an essential layer of existence and experience, we conducted all stages and aspects of our work using a needs-based approach. In this article, we use Manfred Max-Neef's (1991) framework of fundamental human needs to evaluate WorkFREE's UBI Plus pilot through a combination of quantitative data from three household surveys conducted over eighteen months and qualitative data conducted with participants over two years. We find compelling evidence that points to the synergic power of UBI Plus in supporting participants to more effectively and extensively meet not just their material, but also their psychological and relational needs. We recognise limits to our model and implementation - particularly with regard to responding to social, especially gendered, difference - but see enough evidence to advocate for UBI Plus and for needs-based approaches to research and social interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"182 1","pages":"16"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12975856/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147445067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Successful Outcomes, Fulfilment, and Positive Affect: Establishing Facets of Eustress Across Real-Life Challenging Situations.","authors":"Juliane Kloidt, Lawrence W Barsalou","doi":"10.1007/s11205-026-03909-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11205-026-03909-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Establishing the features associated with eustress-the positive experience of a challenging situation-is essential for understanding and fostering eustress effectively in applied settings. Using the Situated Assessment Method, we conducted a pre-registered study in which 251 UK adults evaluated eustress in 20 real-life challenging situations (e.g., \"Give a public speech in front of a large audience\"). Participants also evaluated nine processes that potentially influence eustress in these situations, taken from the <i>C</i>omprehensive <i>H</i>ierarchical construct of <i>E</i>ustress, CHE (e.g., successful outcomes, fulfilment, positive affect). Finally, in a multilevel design, participants completed unsituated trait measures for eustress, distress, and stress mindset. Reliable individual differences were observed in average eustress judgments across situations (a trait-level measure), along with substantial situation effects and a large individual by situation interaction. The nine influential processes correlated strongly with eustress across situations, indicating high construct and content validity (explaining a median variance of 83% in individual-level regressions). Individual eustress averaged across situations correlated with trait eustress and trait stress mindset but was unrelated to trait distress. Exploratory factor analyses on situated and trait measures derived from the CHE model revealed a dominant general factor of eustress, accompanied by modest multidimensional structure. These findings align with existing theories of stress, contrast different types of eustress measurement, and provide rich descriptive profiles for personalized context-sensitive interventions to foster eustress when desirable.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11205-026-03909-6.</p>","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"184 1","pages":"20"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13451411/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148697768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Individual Utilities of Life Satisfaction Reveal Inequality Aversion Unrelated to Political Alignment.","authors":"Crispin Cooper, Ana Fredrich, Tommaso Reggiani, Wouter Poortinga","doi":"10.1007/s11205-026-03854-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11205-026-03854-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How should well-being be prioritised in society, and what trade-offs are people willing to make between fairness and personal well-being? We investigate these questions using a stated preference experiment with a nationally quasi-representative UK sample (<i>n</i> = 300), in which participants evaluated life satisfaction outcomes for both themselves and others under conditions of uncertainty. Individual-level utility functions were estimated using an Expected Utility Maximisation (EUM) framework and tested for sensitivity to the overweighting of small probabilities, as characterised by Cumulative Prospect Theory (CPT). A majority of participants displayed concave (risk-averse) utility curves and showed stronger aversion to inequality in societal life satisfaction outcomes than to personal risk. These preferences were unrelated to political alignment, suggesting a shared normative stance on fairness in well-being that cuts across ideological boundaries. The results challenge use of average life satisfaction as a policy metric and support the development of nonlinear utility-based alternatives that more accurately reflect collective human values. Implications for public policy and well-being measurement are discussed.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11205-026-03854-4.</p>","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"183 1","pages":"12"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13172002/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147964537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Determinants of Well-Being: A Causal Framework.","authors":"Lea A Tamberg, Vivien Fisch-Romito, Julia K Steinberger","doi":"10.1007/s11205-026-03816-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11205-026-03816-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Different philosophical strands have developed distinct well-being conceptions, which are nevertheless strongly linked. For instance, many typical well-being components in eudaimonic philosophies correlate with subjective life assessment measures. Existing empirical research also provides many insights into which factors determine human well-being, such as health and the quality of relationships. However, the causal ordering of these factors is often not explicitly considered, although doing so would be crucial for the identification of intervention points and a correct estimation of effect sizes in empirical studies. In response to these two observations, we propose a unified causal framework of the main pathways determining human well-being in its different conceptions, with a focus on those prominent in sustainability research and the subjective well-being community. The framework considers environmental, economic, societal, political, social, and psychological factors and shows how they interact. It combines insights from theories of human needs, the capabilities approach, and research on subjective indicators. We illustrate the use of the framework with examples of societal interventions on well-being, environmental impacts, and sustainable well-being policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"182 2","pages":"23"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12995919/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147487245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Interplay of Economic Resources, Family Decision Power, and Gender Ideology in China.","authors":"Matthew Henglong Luo, Man-Yee Kan","doi":"10.1007/s11205-025-03761-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11205-025-03761-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gender ideology, the support for a gendered division of paid work and family responsibilities, is a crucial ideological indicator in investigating gender qualities at the couple level. In contrast, economic dependence measures the actual income disparities at the couple level. The two concepts are intertwined with and mutually reinforce each other within marriage. In this study, we propose a mechanism where intra-family decision power interacts with economic dependence to shape gender ideologies and empirically examine it in China. Drawing on data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), our analysis suggests that married women in dual-earner families who adhere to traditional gender ideologies are more likely to be economically dependent on their husbands. On the other side of the loop, a woman's economic dependence interacts with her intra-family decision power to shape her gender ideology. Intra-family decision power moderates the relationship between economic dependence and gender ideologies so that wives with relatively high economic independence and decision power hold the least traditional gender ideologies, while those with high economic dependence and decision power exhibit the most traditional gender ideologies. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for gender disparities in the division of labor and the development of gender ideologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"181 1","pages":"24"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12727719/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145834855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Measuring Informed Choice for Contraception in Burkina Faso: Comparing self-rated and researcher-ascribed measures.","authors":"Brooke W Bullington, Katherine Tumlinson, Nathalie Sawadogo, Claire W Rothschild, Leigh Senderowicz","doi":"10.1007/s11205-025-03650-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11205-025-03650-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>While self-rated measures that rely on participant's perceptions of themselves are common in public health, they remain underused in contraceptive research. Family planning scholars often rely on researcher-ascribed measures of success that capture whether people have the criteria researchers deem necessary for a given outcome. As family planning researchers shift toward rights-based outcomes, understanding women's perceptions of their contraceptive knowledge is imperative.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>We sought to determine whether researcher-ascribed measures of contraceptive knowledge or information provided during contraceptive counseling and self-rated measures of informed choice for contraception align. Informed choice captures whether people have sufficient, unbiased information about their contraceptive options.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using data from a population-based sample of 3,929 reproductive-aged women in Burkina Faso, we compared researcher-ascribed measures, including the informed choice subdomain of the contraceptive autonomy indicator (CAIC) and the Method Information Index (MII), with novel self-rated measures of informed choice developed based on formative research, including in-depth interviews and focus group discussions, that capture people's perceptions of their contraceptive knowledge (self-rated overall informed choice and self-rated method-specific informed choice) using Cohen's Kappa Statistic.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We find that researcher-ascribed measures of contraceptive knowledge and counseling content diverge substantially from self-rated measures of informed choice. CAIC and self-rated overall informed choice had no agreement (Kappa: -0.03); the MII and self-rated method-specific informed choice had no to slight agreement (Kappa=0.05). These findings reveal that the information researchers consider important for informed choice may not align with women's perceptions of their informed choice.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Both researcher-ascribed and self-rated measures provide uniquely important information needed to inform family planning programs and should be measured on population-based surveys.</p>","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"179 2","pages":"1119-1141"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12526126/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145309150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examining Work Temporality Across the U.S. Latino Population by Nativity and Citizenship.","authors":"Sung S Park, Anne R Pebley, Noreen Goldman, Mara Getz Sheftel, Boriana Pratt","doi":"10.1007/s11205-025-03545-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11205-025-03545-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Employees' lives are structured by when and how much they work, which we refer to as \"work temporality.\" While Latinos, the largest racial/ethnic minority group in the U.S. labor force, are disproportionately employed in jobs with unpredictable work schedules, it is unclear how their time at work, broadly defined, varies within this group. This study addresses this gap by examining the temporal dimensions of work among Latinos in the U.S. by nativity and citizenship status and compares them to native-born White and Black workers. We analyze a range of detailed measures that capture the multidimensional nature of work temporality: duration (weekly hours), variability (changes in weekly hours), and timing (evening/night shifts, early/late weekday schedule, weekend work), in addition to conventional measures of non-standard work schedules. We estimate these conventional and detailed measures for five race/ethnicity/nativity/citizenship groups using the Survey of Income and Program Participation from 2014 to 2021. We assess whether these observed differences are maintained after controlling for compositional differences in demographic, socioeconomic, and geographic characteristics. The results indicate that relying wholly on conventional indicators can underestimate Latinos' exposure to non-traditional work schedules, particularly for female Latino non-citizens. Instead, considering the temporal dimensions of duration, variability, and timing in concert may be more informative. The findings contribute to our understanding of how Latinos' time at work is organized, and the stratifying roles of gender, nativity, and citizenship in the U.S. labor market.</p>","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"177 3","pages":"1289-1326"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12383238/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144969741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Translation and Validation of the Malayalam Version of the Subjective Happiness Scale.","authors":"Kelly Cotton, Sanish Sathyan, Soumya Jacob, K S Shaji, Emmeline Ayers, Dristi Adhikari, Alben Sigamani, V G Pradeep Kumar, Joe Verghese","doi":"10.1007/s11205-024-03448-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11205-024-03448-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The subjective happiness scale (SHS) is a brief instrument used to measure global subjective happiness that has been translated from its original English to many other languages. To date, there is no reported translation of this scale into Malayalam, a language spoken by over 32 million people especially in the southern state of Kerala, India. In the present study, 656 community-dwelling older adults participating in the Kerala Einstein study (KES) completed the Malayalam version of the SHS. The Malayalam version demonstrated high internal consistency and good convergent validity, as assessed by comparison to measures of depression and anxiety. We also used factor analysis to determine that the Malayalam version of the SHS has a unidimensional structure, akin to the original English as well as other language adaptations. Our study adds to the repertoire of tools to measure happiness in non-English-speaking populations, enabling future research to explore the foundations of well-being across diverse cultures.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11205-024-03448-y.</p>","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"176 1","pages":"245-255"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11813988/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143415327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}