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Bibliographic Subjects » MODES OF EMPIRICAL HAPPINESS RESEARCH » Methods used in happiness research (other than cross-sections) » Statistical analysis » Multi-level studies on happiness

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MODES OF EMPIRICAL HAPPINESS RESEARCH Methods used in happiness research (other than cross-sections) Statistical analysis Multi-level studies on happiness
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Multi-level studies on happiness,

Publications that report an empirical study that used a valid measure of happiness, the results of which are eligible for inclusion in the findings archive

No empirical study reported
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No valid measure of happiness used
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Eligible and included in findings archive (embedded studies)
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List of Publications on this Subject

Authors Title / Source Year Rampichini, C.; Schifini D'Andrea, S. A Hierarchical Ordinal Probit Model for the Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Italy.
Social Indicators Research, 1998, Vol. 44, 41 - 69 1998 Schyns, P. Wealth of Nations, Individual Income and Life Satisfaction in 42 countries: A Multilevel Approach.
Social Indicators Research, 2002, Vol. 60, 5 - 40 2002 VanHemert, D.A.; Georgas, J.; Poortinga, Y.H.; VandeVijver, F.J. Structural and Functional Equivalence of the Eysenk Personality Questionnaire Within and Between Countries.
Personality and Individual Differences, 2002, Vol. 33, 1229 - 1249 2002 Schyns, P. Income and life Satisfaction. A cross-national and longitudinal study.
Eburon, 2003, Delft, Netherlands 2003 Helliwell, J.F. How's Life? Combining Individual and National Variables to Explain Subjective Well-Being.
Economic Modelling, 2003, Vol. 20, 331 - 360 2003 Subramanian, S.V.; Kawachi, I.; Kim, D. Health and Happiness in US Communities: A Multivariate Multilevel Analysis.
Journal of Epidemiology Community Health, 2005, Vol. 59, 664 - 669 2005 Delhey, J. Life Satisfaction in an Enlarged Europe.
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, 2004, Dublin, Ireland 2004 Haller, M.; Hadler, M. How social Relations and Structures can produce Happiness and Unhappiness: an International comparative Analysis.
Social Indicators Research, 2006, vol. 75: 169-216 2006 Bjornskov, C. Ideological Interpretation of Easterlin's Income-Happiness Paradox: A Warning.
Paper Aarhus School of Business, May 2006, Denmark 2006 Aslam, A.; Corrado, L. No Man is an Island: The Inter-Personal Determinants of Regional Well-Being in Europe.
Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 0717, 2007, Cambridge, UK 2007 Fahey, A.L.; Smyth, E. The Link between Subjective Well-Being and Objective Conditions in European Societies.
Arts, W.;Halman, L.;Eds.: ''European Values at the Turn of the Millennium'', Brill, 2004, Boston, USA, 57 - 80 2004 Rego, A.; Cunha, M.P. How Individualism- Collectivism Orientations predict Happiness in a Collectivistic Context.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2009, Vol. 10, 19 - 35. 2009 Wallace, C.; Pichler, F. More Participation, Happier Society? A Comparative Study of Civil Society and the Quality of Life.
Social Indicators Research, 2009, Vol. 93, 255-274. 2009 Weiner, E. The Geography of Bliss. One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World.
Twelve Hachette Book Group USA, 2008, New York, USA. 2008 Bonini, A.N. Cross-National Variation in Individual Life Satisfaction: Effects of National Wealth, Human Development, and Environmental Conditions.
Social Indicators Research, 2008, Vol. 87, 223 - 236 2008 Copestake, J.; Chou, W.J.; Guillen-Royo, M. The Relationship between Economic and Subjective Wellbeing Indicators in Peru.
Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2009, Vol. 4, 155 - 177 2009 Oishi, S. The Psychology of Residential Mobility: Implications for the Self, Social Relationships, and Well-Being.
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2010, Vol. 5, 5 - 21 2010 Kalmijn, M. Country Differences in the Effects of Divorce om Wellbeing: the Role of Norms, Support, and Selectivity.
European Sociological Review Advance, on line , 2009 July 23, 1 - 16. 2009 VanHoorn, A.A.; Maseland, R. Weber, Work Ethic and Well-Being.
Papers on Economics of Religion, No 08/07, 2008, Granada, Spain 2008 Diener, E.; Harter, J.K.; Ng, W. Wealth and Happiness across the World: Material Prosperity predicts Life Evaluation, Whereas Psychosocial Prosperity predicts Positive Feeling.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2010, Vol. 99, 52 - 61 2010 Clark, A.E.; Lelkes, O. Let us Pray: Religious Interaction in Life Satisfaction.
Working Paper No. 2009-01, Paris School of Economics, 2009, Paris, France 2009 Treas, J.; Chloe Tai, T.; VanderLippe, T. The Happy Homemaker? Married Women's Well-Being in Cross-National Perspective.
Social Forces, 2011, Vol. 90, 111 - 132 2011 Hooghe, M.; Vanhoutte, B. Subjective Well-Being and Social Capital in Belgian Communities. Subjective and Objective Well-Being Indicators in Flanders ( Belgium).
Paper presented at the Conference 'From GDP to Well-Being', 2009, Ancona, Italy 2009 Baird, B.M.; Donnellan, M.B.; Lucas, R.E. Life Satisfaction Across the Lifespan: Findings from Two Nationally Representative Panel Studies.
Social Indicators Research, 2010, Vol. 9, 183 - 203 2010 Tay, L.; Diener, E.; Drasgow, F. Multilevel Mixed-Measurement IRT Analysis: An Explication to Self-Reported Emotions across the World.
Organizational Research Methods, 2011, Vol. 14, 177 - 207 2011 Rözer, J.; Kraaykamp, G. Income Inequality and Subjective Well-Being: A Cross-National Study on the Conditional Effects of Individual and National Characteristics.
Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol. 113, 1009 - 1023 2013 Wang, M.; Sunny Wong, M.C. Happiness and Leisure Across Countries: Evidence from International Survey Data.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2014, Vol. 15, 85 - 118 2014 Rodriguez-Pose, A.; Berlepsch, Von, V. Social Capital and Individual Happiness in Europe.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2014, Vol. 15, 357 - 386 2014 Delhey, J.; Dragolov, G. Why Inequality Makes Europeans Less Happy: The Role of Distrust, Status Anxiety, and Perceived Conflict.
European Sociological Review, 2013, Vol. 0, 1- 15 2013 Aslam, A.; Corrado, L. The Geography of Well-Being.
Journal of Economic Geography, 2012, Vol. 12, 627 - 649 2012 Hadjar, A.; Haunberger, S.; Schubert, F. Bildung und subjektives Wohlbefinden im Zeitverlauf. ( Education and Subjective Well-Being during Time.)
Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 2008, Vol. 3, 370 - 400 2008 Hadjar, A.; Backes, S. Migration Background and Subjective Well-Being A multilevel Analysis based on the European Social Survey.
Comparative Sociology, 2013, Vol. 12, 645 - 676 2013 Zagorski, K.; Evans, M.D.; Kelley, J. Does National Income Inequality affect Individuals' Quality of Life in Europe? Inequality, Happiness, Finances, and Health.
Social Indicators Research, 2014, Vol. 117, 1089 - 1110 2014 Meulemann, H. Self-Concern, Self-Transcendence, and Well-Being.
European Sociological Review, 2010, Vol. 26, 385 - 399 2010 Mikucka, M. Does Individualistic Culture Lower the Well-Being of the Unemployed? Evidence from Europe.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2014, Vol. 15, 673 - 691 2014 Otrachshenko, V.; Popova, O. Life (Dis)satisfaction and Decision to Migrate: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe.
The Journal of Socio-Economics, 2014, Vol. 48, 40 - 49 2014 Portela, M.; Del Mar Salines-Jimenez, M.; Neira, I. Social Capital and Subjective Wellbeing in Europe: A New Approach on Social Capital.
Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol.114, 493 - 511 2012 Soons, J.P.; Liefbroer, A.C. Together is Better? Effects of Relationship Status and Resources on Young Adults’ Well-Being.
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2008, Vol. 25, 603 - 624 2008 Stavrova, O.; Fetchenhauer, D.; Schlösser, T. Are the Unemployed Equally Unhappy all around the World? The Role of the Social Norms to Work and Welfare State Provision in 28 OECD Countries.
Journal of Economic Psychology, 2011, Vol. 32, 159 - 171 2011 Grozinger, G.; Matiaske, W. The Direct and Indirect Impact of Religion on Well-Being in Germany.
Social Indicator Research, 2014, Vol. 116, 373 -387 2014 Han, S. Social Capital and Subjective Happiness: Which Contexts Matter?
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2015, Vol. 16, 241 - 225 2014 Deeming, C.; Hayes, A. Worlds of Welfare Capitalism and Wellbeing: A Multilevel Analysis.
Journal of Social Policy, 2012, Vol. 41, 811 - 829 2012 Helliwell, J.F.; Barrington-Leigh, C. How Much is Social Capital Worth?
NBER Working Paper, 2010, No. 16025, 1 - 34, Canada 2010 Campante, F.; Yanagizawa-Drott, D. Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan.
HKS Research Working Paper Series, 2013, No. RWP12-052, 1 - 46, USA 2013 Mencarini, L.; Sironi, M. Happiness, Housework and Gender Inequality in Europe.
Online Publication - European Sociology Review, 2010, 1 - 18 2012 Scott, J.; Nolan, J.; Plagnol, A.C. Panel Data and Open-Ended Questions: Understanding Perceptions of Quality of Life.
21st Century Society, 2009, Vol. 4,123 -135, 2009 Subramanian, S.V.; Kawachi, I.; Kim, D. Covariation in the Socioeconomic Determinants of Self Rated Health and Happiness: a Multivariate Multilevel Analysis of Individuals and Communities in the USA.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2005, Vol. 59, 664 - 669. 2005 Muffels, R.; Dingemans, E.; Skugar, D. Money Does not Buy much Happiness, but what have Income Inequality, Modernization and Personal values got to do with It?
Tilburg University REFLECT Research Paper, 2012, No.1, Tilburg, The Netherlands 2012 Calvo, E.; Mair, C.A.; Sarkisian, N. Individual Troubles, Shared Troubles: The Multiplicative Effect of Individual and Country-Level Unemployment on Life Satisfaction in 95 Nations (1981 - 2009).
Social Forces, 2015, Vol. 93, 1625 - 1653 2015 Atay, B. Happiness in East Europe in Comparison with Turkey.
Istanbul Bilgi University, 2012, Paper No. 110622016, 1 - 35 2012 Pierewan, A.C.; Tampubolon, G. Happiness and Health in Europe: A Multivariate Multilevel Model.
Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2015, Vol. 10, 237 - 252 2015 Oarga, C.; Fetchenhauer, D.; Stavrova, O. When and Why is Helping Others Good for Well-Being? The Role of Belief in Reciprocity and Conformity to Society’s Expectations.
European Journal of Social Psychology,2015, Vol. 45, 242 - 254 2015 Mikucka, M. Unemployment and Well-being in Europe. The Effect of Country Unemployment Rate, Work Ethics and Family Ties.
CEPS Working Paper, 2011, No, 014, 1 - 37 2011 Stavrova, O.; Fetchenhauer, D.; Schlösser, T. Why are Religious People Happy? The Effect of the Social Norm of Religiosity Across Countries.
Social Science Research, 2013, Vol. 42, 90 - 105 2013 Tay, L.; Diener, E.; Herian, M.N. Detrimental Effects of Corruption and Subjective Well-Being: Whether, How, and When.
Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2014, 1-9 2014 Diener, E.; Myers, D.G.; Tay, L. The Religion Paradox: If Religion Makes People Happy, Why Are So Many Dropping Out?
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2011, Vol. 101, 1278 - 1290 2011 Vroome de, T.; Hooghe, M. Explaining the Ethnic Minority Disadvantage in Subjective Well-Being: A Multilevel Analysis of European Countries
Filomena Maggino, Ed.: "Social Indicators Research Series 57, A New Research Agenda for Impovements in Quality of Life", Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland, Swiss, 2015, 87 - 108 2015 O'campo, P.; Burke, J.D.; Salmon, P. Neighbourhoods and Mental Wellbeing: What are the Pathways?
Health & Place, 2009, Vol.15, 56 - 68 2009 Puntscher, S.; Tappenier, G.; Walde, J. Do Methodical Traps Lead to Wrong Development Strategies for Welfare? A Multilevel Approach Considering Heterogeneity across Industrialized and Developing Countries.
University of Innsbruck, 2015, Working Papers in Economics and Statistics, Vol. 1, 1 - 35 2016 Goff, L.; Helliwell, J.F.; Mayraz, G. The Welfare Costs of Well-being Inequality.
NBER Working Paper, 2016, No. 21900, 1 - 30 2016 Okulicz-Kozaryn, A. Happiness across Nations.
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengeslellschaft &Co. KG, 2009, Saarbrücken, Germany. 2009 Onraet, E.; Roets, A.; Van Assche, J. The Happiness Gap between Conservatives and Liberals depends on Country-Level Threat: A Worldwide Multilevel Study.
Social Psychology and Personality Science, 2016, 1 - 9 2016 Ng, W.; Diener, E. What Matters to the Rich and the Poor? Subjective Well-Being, Financial Satisfaction, and Postmaterialist Needs Across the World.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2014, Vol. 107, 326 - 338 2014 Okulicz-Kozaryn, A.; Avery, D.R.; Holmes, D.S. The Subjective Well-Being Political Paradox: Happy Welfare States and Unhappy Liberals.
Journal of Applied, 2014, 1 - 11 2014 Baslevent, C; Kirmanoglu, H. Gender Inequality in Europe and the Life Satisfaction of Working and Non-working Women.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, Vol. 18, 107 - 124 2017 Bernini, C.; Tampieri, A. Happiness in Italian Cities.
Regional Studies, 2019, Vol. 53, 1-11 2019 Oshio, T. Which is More Relevant for Perceived Happiness, Individual-Level or Area-Level Social Capital? A Multilevel Mediation Analysis.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, Vol.18, 765 - 783 2017 Fukushima, S. Multilayered Sociocultural Phenomena: Associations between Subjective Well-being and Economic Status.
Zygon, 2016, Vol. 51, 191 - 203 2016 Carr, E; Elliot, M; Tranmer, M A multilevel analysis of the relationship between national economic conditions, an individual’s job insecurity and well-being in Western Europe
Working Paper, 2011, Social Statistics, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester 2011 Mikucka, M.; Dubrov, D.; Dubrow, J.K.; Sarracino, F. When Does Economic Growth Improve Life Satisfaction? Multilevel Analysis of the Roles of Social Trust and Income Inequality in 46 Countries, 1981–2012
World Development Vol. 93, 447 - 459 2017 Novak, M.; Pahor, M. Using a Multilevel Modelling Approach to Explain the Influence of Economic Development on the Subjective Well-being of Individuals.
Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 2017, Vol. 30, 705 - 720 2017 Reeskens, T.; Vandecasteele, L Economic Hardship and Well-Being: Examining the Relative Role of Individual Resources and Welfare State Effort in Resilience Against Economic Hardship.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, Vol. 18, 41 - 62 2017 Sortheix, F.M.; Schwartz, S.H. Values that Underlie and Undermine Well-Being: Variability Across Countries.
European Journal of Personality, 2017, Vol. 31, 187 - 201. 2017 Fukushima, S.; Takemura, K.; Uchida, Y. Not Individual-level but Community-level Social Capital Fosters Interconnectedness of Happiness among People: A Multilevel Analysis of Community Survey Data in Japan.
Survey Study, 2015, funded by MEXTJSPS KAKENHI, number 26380842, Japan 2015 Steel, P.; Taras, V.; Uggerslev, K. The Happy Culture: A Theoretical, Meta-Analytic, and Empirical Review of the Relationship Between Culture and Wealth and Subjective Well-Being.
Personality and Social Psychology Review. 2017, 1- 42 2017 Cheng, C.; Jose, P.E.; Sheldon, K.M. Socio-Cultural Differences in Self-Construal and Subjective Well-Being: A Test of Four Cultural Models.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2011, Vol.42, 832 - 855 2011 Cheng, C.; Cheung, M.W.; Montasem, A. Explaining Differences in Subjective Well-Being Across 33 Nations Using Multilevel Models: Universal Personality, Cultural Relativity, and National Income.
Journal of Personality, 2014, Vol. 84, 47 - 48 2014 Bjarnason, T; Arnarsson, A.M; Bendtsen, P. Life Satisfaction Among Children in Different Family Structures: A Comparative Study of 36 Western Societies.
Children and Society, 2012, VOL. 26, 51 - 62 2012 Dore, B.; Bolger, N. Population- and Individual-Level Changes in Life Satisfaction Surrounding Major Life Stressors.
Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2017, 1-10 2017 Morgan, J. Happiness and age in European adults: The moderating role of GDP per-capita
Psychology and Aging, 2015, Vol.30, 544 - 551 2015 Callens, M. Long Term Trends in Life Satisfaction, 1973–2012: Flanders in Europe.
Social Indicators Research, 2017, Vol. 130,107 - 127 2017 Windsor, T.D.; Gerstorf, D.; Luszcz, M. Social Resource Correlates of Levels and Time-to-Death-Related Changes in Late-Life Affect.
Psychology and Aging, 2015, Vol. 30, 136 - 148 2015 Sandikci, O; Ekici, A.; Peterson, M. Development and Quality of Life in Turkey: How Globalization, Religion, and Economic Growth Influence Individual Well-Being.
Journal of Macromarketing, 2016, Vol. 36, 304 - 320 2016 Dragolov, G. Revising the Link between Inequalities and Subjective Well-being: How Does Income Inequality Make Us Un-/happy?
PhD Dissertation, 2018,, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Universität Bremen and Jacobs University Bremen, 2018, Bremen, Germany 2018 Brockmann, H. Happy Newcomers? Subjective Well -Being of First -Generation I mmigrants in Germany.
Working Paper,2017, Robertt Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), Nr. 2017/63. 2017 Kogan, I.; Shen, J.; Siegert, M. What Makes a Satisfied Immigrant? Host-Country Characteristics and Immigrants’ Life Satisfaction in Eighteen European Countries.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2018, Vol. 19, 1783 - 1809 2018 Samuel, R.; Hadjar, A. How Welfare-State Regimes Shape Subjective Well-Being across Europe.
Social Indicators Research, 2016, Vol. 129, 565 - 587 2016 Nonnenmacher, A.; Friedrichs, J. The Missing Link: Deficits of Country-Level Studies. A Review of 22 Articles Explaining Life Satisfaction.
Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol. 110, 1221 - 1244 2013 Schröder, M. Income Inequality and Life Satisfaction: Unrelated Between Countries, Associated Within Countries Over Time
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2018, Vol. 19, 1021 - 1043 2018 Burns, R.A. The Utility of Between‑Nation Subjective Wellbeing Comparisons Amongst Nations Within the European Social Survey
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2019, Vol. 20, 683 - 705 2019 Cheung, F.; Lucas, R.E. Income Inequality Is Associated with Stronger Social Comparison Effects: The Effect of Relative Income on Life Satisfaction
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2016, Vol. 100, 332 - 341 2016 Liu, Y.; Liu, Y.; Zhang, F. The Subjective Wellbeing of Migrants in Guangzhou, China: The Impacts of the Social and Physical Environment
Cities, 2017, Vol. 60, 333 - 342 2017 Desousa, C.; Murphy, S.; Roberts, C. School Policies and Binge Drinking Behaviours of School-Aged Children in Wales - a Multilevel Analysis
Health Education Research, 2008, Vol. 23, 259 - 271 2008 Forlin, A.; Khaliman, O.; Plazzotta, A. Does Religiosity Have an Effect on Life Satisfaction in the European Context of 2008?
Statistic for Opinion Research, Academic Year 2016/2017, University of Trento, Italy 2017 Joshanloo, M.; Jovanovic, V. The Relationship between Gender and Life Satisfaction: Analysis across Demographic Groups and Global Regions
Archives of Women's Mental Health, 2020, Vol. 23, 331-338 2020 Krys, K.; Oishi, S.; Uchida, Y. Open Society Fosters Satisfaction: Explanation to Why Individualism Associates with Country Level Measures of Satisfaction
The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2019, Vol. 14, 768-778 2019 Kang, J.H.; Lee, J.S.; Song, B.K. Envy and Pride: How Economic Inequality Deepens Happiness Inequality in South Korea
Social Indicators Research, 2020, online 2020 Layte, R. The Association Between Income Inequality and Mental Health: Testing Status Anxiety, Social Capital, and Neo-Materialist Explanations
European Sociological Review, 2012, Vol. 28, 498-511 2012 Cheung, F. Income Redistribution Predicts Greater Life Satisfaction across Individual, National, and Cultural Characteristics
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2018, Vol 115, 867-882 2018 Lee, S.Y.; Kim, R.; Subramanian, S.V. Associations between Subjective Wellbeing and Macroeconomic Indicators: An Assessment of Heterogeneity across 60 Countries
Wellbeing, Space and Society, 2020, 100011 2020 Letelier-S, L.E.; Saez-Lozano, J.L. Expenditure Decentralization: Does It Make Us Happier? An Empirical Analysis Using a Panel of Countries
Sustainability, 2020, Vol. 12, 7236 2020 Krys, K.; Kocimska-Zych, A.; Park, J. Personal Life Satisfaction as a Measure of Societal Happiness is an Individualistic Presumption: Evidence from Fifty Countries
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2021, Vol. 22, 2197 - 2214 2021 Li, A.; Matsuda, Y.; Sato, T. Spatial Analysis of Subjective Wel-Being in Japan
DSSR Discussion Papers, 2021. Nr. 122, 1-122 2021 Brulé, G; Ravazzini, L.; Suter, C. The Rolling 50s (and more): Cars and Life Satisfaction among Seniors across Europe
Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2022, Vol. 17, 185 - 204 2022 Araki, S Does Education Make People Happy? Spotlighting the Overlooked Societal Condition
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, Vol. 23, 587-629 2022 Ortuzar, I.; Renart, G.; Xabadia, A. Effects of Public Healthcare Budget Cuts on Life Satisfaction in Spain
Social Indicators Research, 2021, Vol. 156, 311 - 337 2021 Cajarte, T.J. The Influence of the Urban Built Environment on the Happiness of Residents in Rotterdam
MSc thesis, 2015, HIS International Institute of Urban management of Erasmus university. Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2015