Single-item measures of happiness and life satisfaction: the issue of cross-country invariance of popular general well-being measures

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-023-02299-1" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-023-02299-1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02299-1" target="_blank" >10.1057/s41599-023-02299-1</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Single-item measures of happiness and life satisfaction: the issue of cross-country invariance of popular general well-being measures

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Single-item measures of general well-being are increasingly being analysed cross-culturally but without clear evidence of comparability level attainment. The primary objective of this study is to examine the cross-country measurement invariance of the two most common single-item measures—general life satisfaction and happiness—across a large number of countries. For this purpose, 45 data sources from large-scale sample surveys conducted between 1976 and 2018 were used. This study presented a novel technique for examining the measurement invariance of individual items and used Bayesian approximation to evaluate the extent of the non-invariance of certain items across nations. The findings revealed that the happiness item’s factor loadings and intercepts deviated less, indicating comparability across more countries than the life satisfaction item. It is possible that the construct of happiness is more universally applicable across cultures than that of life satisfaction. However, the item parameters of the survey items varied among several countries in each round of the program, indicating that the observed score means could only be compared between a few participating countries.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Single-item measures of happiness and life satisfaction: the issue of cross-country invariance of popular general well-being measures

Popis výsledku anglicky

Single-item measures of general well-being are increasingly being analysed cross-culturally but without clear evidence of comparability level attainment. The primary objective of this study is to examine the cross-country measurement invariance of the two most common single-item measures—general life satisfaction and happiness—across a large number of countries. For this purpose, 45 data sources from large-scale sample surveys conducted between 1976 and 2018 were used. This study presented a novel technique for examining the measurement invariance of individual items and used Bayesian approximation to evaluate the extent of the non-invariance of certain items across nations. The findings revealed that the happiness item’s factor loadings and intercepts deviated less, indicating comparability across more countries than the life satisfaction item. It is possible that the construct of happiness is more universally applicable across cultures than that of life satisfaction. However, the item parameters of the survey items varied among several countries in each round of the program, indicating that the observed score means could only be compared between a few participating countries.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA22-09220S" target="_blank" >GA22-09220S: Zdraví a štěstí v post-covidovém světě</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS

ISSN

2662-9992

e-ISSN

2662-9992

Svazek periodika

10

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

November

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

861

Kód UT WoS článku

001107222700005

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85177685697