Employment, finances, housing, and transportation
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Employment, finances, housing, and transportation
（Recent research in psychology, . Global report on student well-being ; v. 3）
Springer-Verlag, c1993
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [110]-121)
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: us ISBN 9780387979489
Description
I suppose that most of the people reading this volume will have read or have access to Volume One of my Global Report on Student Well Being. Therefore, I will not review the background literature relevant to multiple discrepancies theory (MDT), the theory itself or the es sential features of the international university undergraduate data-set on which this whole report is based. Anyone familiar with my earlier papers (Michalos 1985, 1987, 1988) will have a good idea of MDT. However, one really has to have a look at the first volume of this study in order to appreciate the richness of a data-set consisting of over 18,000 cases drawn from 39 countries. As I indicated at the be ginning of that volume, the data-set is available for a very modest cost to anyone who wants it and I do hope others will take advantage of it. The focus of Volume One was on happiness and satisfaction with life as a whole, so-called global indicators of subjective well being. Volume Two was devoted to an exploration of satisfaction with the interpersonal relations of family, friends and living partners, and personal self-esteem. This volume is concerned with satisfaction with material goods as indicated by the domains of paid employment, fi nances, housing and transportation. In the fourth and final volume I will explain satisfaction with religion, education, recreation and health.
Table of Contents
1 Literature Review.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Paid Employment/Job Satisfaction.- 1.3 Income and Finances.- 1.4 Housing and Transportation.- 2 Satisfaction with One's Paid Employment.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Descriptive Statistics for World Sample, Males and Females.- 2.3 Satisfaction Explained by MDT for World Sample.- 2.4 Satisfaction Explained by MDT for Males and Females.- 2.5 Twenty-Five Countries.- 2.6 Prediction Success Ratios.- 3 Full-Time Employed Compared to Unemployed.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Sample Composition.- 3.3 Life Satisfaction and Happiness Explained by Satisfaction in 12 domains and 7 Demographic Variables for Full-Time Employed and Unemployed Students, Males and Females.- 3.4 Overview of Explanations by MDT of Happiness and Satisfaction in All Domains for Full-Time Employed and Unemployed Students, Males and Females.- 3.5 Domain Specific Explanations by MDT of Happiness and Satisfaction in All Domains for Full-Time Employed and Unemployed Students, Males and Females.- 3.6 Satisfaction with One's Paid Employment Explained by MDT for Full-Time Employed Students, Males and Females.- 4 Satisfaction with One's Finances.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Descriptive Statistics for World Sample, Males and Females.- 4.3 Satisfaction Explained by MDT for World Sample.- 4.4 Satisfaction Explained by MDT for Males and Females.- 4.5 Thirty-Eight Countries.- 4.6 Prediction Success Ratios.- 5 Satisfaction with One's Housing.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Descriptive Statistics for World Sample, Males and Females.- 5.3 Satisfaction Explained by MDT for World Sample.- 5.4 Satisfaction Explained by MDT for Males and Females.- 5.5 Thirty-Eight Countries.- 5.6 Prediction Success Ratios.- 6 Satisfaction with One's Transportation.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Descriptive Statistics for World Sample, Males and Females.- 6.3 Satisfaction Explained by MDT for World Sample.- 6.4 Satisfaction Explained by MDT for Males and Females.- 6.5 Thirty-Eight Countries.- 6.6 Prediction Success Ratios.- 7 Concluding Remarks.- References.- Appendix 1. Abbreviations and definitions.- Appendix 2. Results of regressions using MDT to explain satisfaction with one's employment, alphabetically by country and university.- Appendix 3. Results of regressions using MDT to explain happiness and satisfaction in all domains for full-time employed students, males and females.- Appendix 4. Results of regressions using MDT to explain happiness and satisfaction in all domains for unemployed students, males and females.- Appendix 5. Results of regressions using MDT to explain satisfaction with one's finances, alphabetically by country and university.- Appendix 6. Results of regressions using MDT to explain satisfaction with one's housing, alphabetically by country and university.- Appendix 7. Results of regressions using MDT to explain satisfaction with one's transportation, alphabetically by country and university.
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Description
Based on the multiple discrepancies theory, this study maintains that the measurement of life satisfaction is a function of seven perceived gaps that focus on comparisons between one and one's neighbours. The data for these volumes is drawn from over 18,000 university age people all over the world.
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