Subjective Wellbeing in Rural and Urban Central Europe
Evidence from the European Social Survey (2008 and 2018)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9952346 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vladimir Ivanović (0000-0001-8789-3486, University of Zagreb, corresponding author), Bruno Šimac (0000-0003-1361-9622, University of Zagreb), Tijana Trako Poljak (0000-0002-0846-2889, University of Zagreb) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 397-419 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7659 • E-ISSN: 1557-9336 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00207659.2022.2089806 |
| OpenAlex | W4283270226 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 51 |
Social surveys on wellbeing have been increasingly including measures of subjective wellbeing, alongside more often used objective ones, as they show the importance of a more comprehensive approach to understanding what constitutes good and happy lives. This paper relies on the European Social Survey (ESS) data from Round 4 (2008) and Round 9 (2018 ESS. 2018. Methodology Overview. https://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/methodology/ (19 February 2021) [Google Scholar]) to analyze and compare subjective wellbeing (SWB) in rural and urban areas of eight Central European countries: Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, and Slovakia. Based on available ESS items, we have constructed a more concise version of the VanderWeele et al.’s Flourishing Index, which we termed the Subjective Wellbeing Index (SWI), and which includes the following domains: (1) happiness and life satisfaction, (2) mental and physical health, and (3) financial and material stability. The main results indicate that all eight CE countries have relatively high and improving SWI scores, but stable relational position over the ten-year period. When looking at the rural-urban subsamples, all countries scored higher on the SWI in urban areas in 2008, with significant improvements in the rural areas of more affluent EU countries by 2018 as Austrian, Czech and German rural areas exhibited higher SWI scores than their urban counterparts
Czech · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Flourishing · Geography · German · Happiness · Index (typography · Life satisfaction · Political science · Rural area · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Health disparities and outcomes · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |