Çiçek Zübeyde, Bayram Arlı Nuran
Department of Statistics, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta 32200, Türkiye.
Department of Econometrics, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Bursa Uludag University, Bursa 16059, Türkiye.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2024 Dec 6;14(12):1170. doi: 10.3390/bs14121170.
This study investigates factors influencing individuals' levels of subjective well-being by examining fundamental variables, called life domains, such as satisfaction with health, education, marriage, housing district, work life, social life, relationships, and public services. The aim is to understand how these domains affect various quantile values of subjective well-being. To achieve this, the Life Satisfaction Survey dataset for 2020, obtained from the Turkish Statistical Institute, was utilized, and Bayesian Quantile Structural Equation Modeling and Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling methods were applied. The empirical study indicates that all life domains were found to have a positive impact on subjective well-being, except for housing-district satisfaction and education satisfaction. In particular, for individuals with low subjective well-being, satisfaction with work life, relationships, and public services has a stronger effect on subjective well-being compared to those in higher quantiles. Conversely, marriage satisfaction has a stronger effect on subjective well-being among individuals in the higher quantiles. This study's unique contribution is that examining subjective well-being according to quantile values provides detailed information on how the factors influencing individuals' subjective well-being vary across different levels.
本研究通过考察被称为生活领域的基本变量，如对健康、教育、婚姻、居住小区、工作生活、社交生活、人际关系和公共服务的满意度，来探究影响个体主观幸福感水平的因素。目的是了解这些领域如何影响主观幸福感的各个分位数。为实现这一目标，使用了从土耳其统计局获得的2020年生活满意度调查数据集，并应用了贝叶斯分位数结构方程模型和贝叶斯结构方程模型方法。实证研究表明，除居住小区满意度和教育满意度外，所有生活领域均对主观幸福感有积极影响。特别是，对于主观幸福感较低的个体，工作生活、人际关系和公共服务满意度对主观幸福感的影响比处于较高分位数的个体更强。相反，婚姻满意度对高分位数个体的主观幸福感影响更强。本研究的独特贡献在于，根据分位数考察主观幸福感提供了关于影响个体主观幸福感的因素如何在不同水平上变化的详细信息。
