Stephanie He
Biographic Data
| ID | 4273134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie He |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | He |
| SIGNATURE | HE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1762-4461 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Stereotypically Satisfied
This study examines gender differences in how job and family satisfaction affect life satisfaction in Europe. The social production function suggests that social needs are met through affection, status, and behavioral confirmation. Women are thought to be more adept at satisfying affection needs, while men are better at meeting status needs. Behavioral confirmation reinforces these roles, leading to gender-specific pathways to life satisfaction. …
The traditionalist illusion
Survey items that capture attitudes towards gender roles in the private and public spheres typically only measure agreement with a traditional gender role attitude. Respondents who disagree with such items may hold egalitarian views – favouring either equality or role-reversal – or may endorse pluralist beliefs. Using data from the ESS CRONOS Survey, we contrast a conventional measure of gender attitudes with an alternative version that clearly d…
Which Life Makes You Happy? The Satisfaction Dividend of the Prosperous, the Exciting, the Cozy, and the Sustainable Life
This article provides fresh insights into the timeless question of what kind of life makes people happy and satisfied. We differentiate between four modern, popular life concepts in Western societies, each imparting a distinct ‘project character’ to life: the prosperous life, oriented towards socioeconomic status; the exciting life, focused on enriching experiences; the cozy life, centered around emotional comfort; and the sustainable life, aimed…
Status Seeking and Work-Family Conflicts
This paper takes a cross-national perspective and examines the association between the individual disposition to pursue wealth and success (status seeking) and work–family conflicts. We use data from the 2010 European Social Survey on more than 15,000 individuals from 26 countries who were of working age and living in families with children. The sample selection followed a stratified random sampling strategy and data were collected via computer-a…
Nurturing Creativity whilst Caring
This example shows how Participatory Action Research can be an effective approach to designing courses for family carers in a Recovery College. We explore deeper understandings of self-care whilst caring, and the ways creativity can enable this and have wider reaching benefits. Our findings also add to the literature on implementing adult education in practice in Recovery College settings. Finally, we provide some implications for improving cours…
The Impact of Cultural Values on the Association Between Family Relations and Children’s Life Satisfaction. A Comparison of Children in Two-Parent Families Across 39 Countries
Despite increasing interest in country differences and the identification of macro-societal circumstances that shape children’s well-being, cross-national comparisons of children’s subjective well-being are still rare. This study investigates the effect of family relations on children’s life satisfaction in 39 countries from multiple world regions, with the aims of unveiling differences in average life satisfaction, comparing the effect of family…
Parental depressiveness and children’s emotional problems
This study used panel data to examine the longitudinal effect of maternal and paternal depressiveness on children’s emotional difficulties in two-parent families in Germany. The main purpose was to examine whether the strength of this association differs depending on whether parents or children themselves assessed children’s emotional difficulties. Based on data from 1,586 children from the German Family Panel (pairfam), our findings show much st…
Europeans Seek Exciting Experiences More Than Status
This article relates the lively debate about inequality-induced status concerns in affluent societies to the broader theoretical perspective on changing existential dispositions in modern society, which we reconstruct from the sociological theories of David Riesman, Gerhard Schulze and Ronald Inglehart. We conceptualise experience seeking - aspiring to an enjoyable life - alongside status seeking - aspiring to a successful life - as a presumably …
Life Satisfaction During the Covid-19 Pandemic
A cornerstone of well-being research is that the resource-rich are happier with their lives than the resource-poor and better positioned to cope with stressful life events. This paper addresses the role of various resources—human, economic, social, and psychological capital—in life satisfaction during the coronavirus pandemic, using panel data from Germany and the United Kingdom for 2020 and 2021. Cross-sectionally, we find life satisfaction to b…
Who values status seeking? A cross-European comparison of social gradients and societal conditions
This article investigates for European societies the contextual conditions and social stratification of status seeking, defined as the desire to increase one’s rank in the social hierarchy and thereby to gain prestige. We explore diverging assumptions about (a) the level of status seeking across societies and (b) the social gradient of status seeking within them, derived from three prominent sociological theories: the income inequality thesis sen…
Who values status seeking? A cross-European comparison of social gradients and societal conditions
This article investigates for European societies the contextual conditions and social stratification of status seeking, defined as the desire to increase one’s rank in the social hierarchy and thereby to gain prestige. We explore diverging assumptions about (a) the level of status seeking across societies and (b) the social gradient of status seeking within them, derived from three prominent sociological theories: the income inequality thesis sen…
Europeans Seek Exciting Experiences More Than Status
This article relates the lively debate about inequality-induced status concerns in affluent societies to the broader theoretical perspective on changing existential dispositions in modern society, which we reconstruct from the sociological theories of David Riesman, Gerhard Schulze and Ronald Inglehart. We conceptualise experience seeking - aspiring to an enjoyable life - alongside status seeking - aspiring to a successful life - as a presumably …
Who values status seeking? A cross-European comparison of social gradients and societal conditions
This article investigates for European societies the contextual conditions and social stratification of status seeking, defined as the desire to increase one’s rank in the social hierarchy and thereby to gain prestige. We explore diverging assumptions about (a) the level of status seeking across societies and (b) the social gradient of status seeking within them, derived from three prominent sociological theories: the income inequality thesis sen…
Life Satisfaction During the Covid-19 Pandemic
A cornerstone of well-being research is that the resource-rich are happier with their lives than the resource-poor and better positioned to cope with stressful life events. This paper addresses the role of various resources—human, economic, social, and psychological capital—in life satisfaction during the coronavirus pandemic, using panel data from Germany and the United Kingdom for 2020 and 2021. Cross-sectionally, we find life satisfaction to b…
The Impact of Cultural Values on the Association Between Family Relations and Children’s Life Satisfaction. A Comparison of Children in Two-Parent Families Across 39 Countries
Despite increasing interest in country differences and the identification of macro-societal circumstances that shape children’s well-being, cross-national comparisons of children’s subjective well-being are still rare. This study investigates the effect of family relations on children’s life satisfaction in 39 countries from multiple world regions, with the aims of unveiling differences in average life satisfaction, comparing the effect of family…
Parental depressiveness and children’s emotional problems
This study used panel data to examine the longitudinal effect of maternal and paternal depressiveness on children’s emotional difficulties in two-parent families in Germany. The main purpose was to examine whether the strength of this association differs depending on whether parents or children themselves assessed children’s emotional difficulties. Based on data from 1,586 children from the German Family Panel (pairfam), our findings show much st…
Europeans Seek Exciting Experiences More Than Status
This article relates the lively debate about inequality-induced status concerns in affluent societies to the broader theoretical perspective on changing existential dispositions in modern society, which we reconstruct from the sociological theories of David Riesman, Gerhard Schulze and Ronald Inglehart. We conceptualise experience seeking - aspiring to an enjoyable life - alongside status seeking - aspiring to a successful life - as a presumably …
Status Seeking and Work-Family Conflicts
This paper takes a cross-national perspective and examines the association between the individual disposition to pursue wealth and success (status seeking) and work–family conflicts. We use data from the 2010 European Social Survey on more than 15,000 individuals from 26 countries who were of working age and living in families with children. The sample selection followed a stratified random sampling strategy and data were collected via computer-a…
Nurturing Creativity whilst Caring
This example shows how Participatory Action Research can be an effective approach to designing courses for family carers in a Recovery College. We explore deeper understandings of self-care whilst caring, and the ways creativity can enable this and have wider reaching benefits. Our findings also add to the literature on implementing adult education in practice in Recovery College settings. Finally, we provide some implications for improving cours…
Stereotypically Satisfied
This study examines gender differences in how job and family satisfaction affect life satisfaction in Europe. The social production function suggests that social needs are met through affection, status, and behavioral confirmation. Women are thought to be more adept at satisfying affection needs, while men are better at meeting status needs. Behavioral confirmation reinforces these roles, leading to gender-specific pathways to life satisfaction. …
The traditionalist illusion
Survey items that capture attitudes towards gender roles in the private and public spheres typically only measure agreement with a traditional gender role attitude. Respondents who disagree with such items may hold egalitarian views – favouring either equality or role-reversal – or may endorse pluralist beliefs. Using data from the ESS CRONOS Survey, we contrast a conventional measure of gender attitudes with an alternative version that clearly d…
Which Life Makes You Happy? The Satisfaction Dividend of the Prosperous, the Exciting, the Cozy, and the Sustainable Life
This article provides fresh insights into the timeless question of what kind of life makes people happy and satisfied. We differentiate between four modern, popular life concepts in Western societies, each imparting a distinct ‘project character’ to life: the prosperous life, oriented towards socioeconomic status; the exciting life, focused on enriching experiences; the cozy life, centered around emotional comfort; and the sustainable life, aimed…
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Life satisfaction (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Social science (3 works)