Browsing by Subject "Happiness"
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Household Happiness and Fuel Poverty: a Cross-Sectional Analysis on Turkey
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Publisher and Date:(SPRINGER, 2021-01)In recent years, self-reported happiness and fuel poverty have both become hotly-debated topics in the literature. Since both of them affect people's quality of life, they are certainly worth serious consideration. Therefore, this paper aims to conduct a household-level analysis on the association between happiness and fuel poverty taking advantage of other housing characteristics. We used ordered logit model utilizing Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT)'s 2014-2018 Life Satisfaction Survey ...
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How does self-concept clarity influence happiness in social settings? The role of strangers versus friends
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019)Self-concept clarity (SCC) defined as the extent to which the content of an individual's self-beliefs is clearly and confidently defined and internally consistent influences experiences in social relationships. This paper extends the previous literature on SCC by proposing and demonstrating that high-SCC individuals anticipate and experience more happiness than low-SCC individuals when they share a social setting with friends and anticipate and experience less happiness than low-SCC individuals ...
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The relationship between happiness and perceived income inequality as well as some social indicators: a comparative analysis on Turkey and selected european countries
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Publisher and Date:(Kadir Has University, 2016)in recent years the relationship between happiness and income distribution has become an important issue in the economics literature. Underlying reason of this situation is the widening income gap between the rich and the poor since 1980s. Several studies have traced the link between happiness and income inequality especially since the last two decades. it is also very important to study “perceived” income distribution and inequality because they may show different approaches to income distribution ...
