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Título
The Importance of different forms of social capital for happiness in Europe: A Multilevel Structural Equation Model (GSEM)
Año del Documento
2022
Editorial
Springer
Descripción
Producción Científica
Documento Fuente
Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2022.
Resumo
This paper investigates the effects of different dimensions of social capital on happiness of Europeans. Unlike other studies, a categorical principal component analysis (CATPCA) is applied to obtain the dimensions of social capital. The data used come from the ninth wave of the European Social Survey (ESS), year 2018. Happiness is modelled using a multilevel structural equations model (GSEM) by country to study the role of social capital in Europeans' happiness, when controlling for the effect of factors such as gender, unemployment, age, low income, higher education, and living with a partner. Social capital is measured as a multidimensional concept composed of institutional trust, social trust, social ties and voluntary association, civility and sense of belonging, and religiosity. Among the results, we found that the five dimensions that build social capital have a positive impact on happiness. In addition to the positive effects of social capital, the control variables have the expected impact. In a context marked by growing individualism and social isolation, the results of this work can guide policy makers in using the dimensions of social capital to increase the subjective well-being of the population.
Materias Unesco
53 Ciencias Económicas
Palabras Clave
Social capital
Happiness
Trust
Social interaction
Europe
Multilevel structural equations model
ISSN
1871-2584
Revisión por pares
SI
Patrocinador
Publicación en abierto financiada por el Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Castilla y León (BUCLE), con cargo al Programa Operativo 2014ES16RFOP009 FEDER 2014-2020 DE CASTILLA Y LEÓN, Actuación:20007-CL - Apoyo Consorcio BUCLE
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© 2022 The Author(s)
Idioma
eng
Tipo de versión
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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