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Effect of Changes in Living Conditions on Well-Being: A Prospective Top-Down Bottom-Up Model

Social indicators research, 2011-01, Vol.100 (1), p.115-135 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2011 Springer ;Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 ;2015 INIST-CNRS ;Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 ;ISSN: 0303-8300 ;EISSN: 1573-0921 ;DOI: 10.1007/s11205-010-9607-6 ;CODEN: SINRDZ

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Title:
Effect of Changes in Living Conditions on Well-Being: A Prospective Top-Down Bottom-Up Model
Author: Nakazato, Naoki ; Schimmack, Ulrich ; Oishi, Shigehiro
Subjects: Adaptation ; Aspiration ; Attitudes ; Community Satisfaction ; Correlation ; Correlations ; Cost efficiency ; Cost of living ; Data analysis ; Economic theory ; Federal Republic of Germany ; Foreign Countries ; Germany ; Growth models ; Habitat ; Happiness ; History, theory and methodology ; Households ; Houses ; Housing ; Housing conditions ; Housing Costs ; Human ecology and demography ; Human Geography ; Judgment ; Life Satisfaction ; Living arrangements ; Living conditions ; Living Standards ; Methodology ; Microeconomics ; Modelling ; National Surveys ; Place of Residence ; Public Health ; Quality of life ; Quality of Life Research ; Relocation ; Social Indicators ; Social research ; Social Sciences ; Social Theories ; Socioeconomic Influences ; Sociology ; Sociometric Techniques ; Studies ; Test theory ; Treadmills ; Well Being ; Wellbeing
Is Part Of: Social indicators research, 2011-01, Vol.100 (1), p.115-135
Description: Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examined life-satisfaction and housing satisfaction before and after moving (N = 3,658 participants from 2,162 households) with univariate and bivariate two-intercept two-slope latent growth models. The main findings were (a) a strong and persistent increase in average levels of housing satisfaction, (b) no increase in average life-satisfaction, (c) low stability in individuals' level of housing satisfaction, and (d) high stability in individuals' level of life-satisfaction. The results are discussed in the context of top-down and bottom-up models as well as adaptation theories of well-being. We conclude that moving or living in a better home is unrelated to life-satisfaction judgments for two reasons. First, housing makes a small contribution to life-satisfaction judgments. Second, positive effects of better housing are undermined by the greater costs of living in a better home. The results provide no support for the prediction of adaptation theory that shifting aspirations undermine the benefits of living in a better home.
Publisher: Dordrecht: Springer
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0303-8300
EISSN: 1573-0921
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-010-9607-6
CODEN: SINRDZ
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
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Effect of Changes in Living Conditions on Well-Being: A Prospective Top-Down Bottom-Up Model

2011 Springer ;Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 ;2015 INIST-CNRS ;Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 ;ISSN: 0303-8300 ;EISSN: 1573-0921 ;DOI: 10.1007/s11205-010-9607-6 ;CODEN: SINRDZ

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