Overview
- First book to examine wealth and its relation to subjective well-being (SWB)
- Presents wealth as a crucial resource in understanding economic and subjective well-being
- Shows that the level of wealth is equally important as the level of income in affecting SWB
Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 76)
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Table of contents(22 chapters)
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Wealth and SWB: Theoretical, Conceptual and Historical Considerations
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Wealth and SWB: Methodological Considerations
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Household Wealth and SWB: Empirical Findings
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Housing Wealth and SWB: Empirical Findings
Keywords
- Consumption and Subjective Well-Being
- Economic Resources and Subjective Well-Being
- Empirical Findings on Wealth and Subjective Well-Being
- Home Ownership and Subjective Well-Being
- Impact of Wealth Changes on Subjective Well-Being
- Influences of Income and Wealth on SWB
- Measurement of Poverties and Wealth
- Methodological Considerations on Wealth and SWB
- Personal Wealth and Happiness
- Relationship between Divorce and Subjective Well-Being
- Wealth and Resilience
- Wealth Distributions and Policies
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Editors and Affiliations
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University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Gaël Brulé, Christian Suter
About the editors
Christian Suter (PhD) is a professor of sociology at the university of Neuchâtel. His areas of expertise are among others: sociology, social indicators, social inequalities and subjective well-being.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wealth(s) and Subjective Well-Being
Editors: Gaël Brulé, Christian Suter
Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05535-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05534-9Published: 04 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05535-6Published: 24 June 2019
Series ISSN: 1387-6570
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 508
Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Health Economics, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Cultural Studies