Measurement of International Differences in Well-Being

衡量福祉的国际差异

• 批准号: 8531125
• 负责人: Arie Kapteyn
• 金额: $ 19.36万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-30 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8531125
• 关键词: Affect; American; Communities; Conflict (Psychology); Country; Data; Decision Making; Economic Development; Emotions; Happiness; Health; Individual; International; Internet; Investigation; Lead; Learning; Life; Measurement; Measures; Methods; Netherlands; Outcome; Paper; Patient Self-Report; Personal Satisfaction; Policies; Population; Population Group; Procedures; Property; Reporting; Research; Respondent; Sampling; Seminal; Social Sciences; Time; Variant; Work; base; experience; improved; reconstruction; research study; response; satisfaction; time interval; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A major impulse for the study of subjective well-being has been the question how policy affects the distribution of subjective well-being within a country. A natural approach to learning about policy effects is to compare policies across countries and relate these to observed differences in well-being. Most of the work on international comparisons of well-being has been based on global satisfaction measures, like single questions inviting respondents to rate their happiness on a numerical or verbal scale. This work has produced widely conflicting findings. More recently, experienced well-being has been proposed as an alternative measure. Both approaches to the measurement of well-being are in principle vulnerable to Differential Item Functioning, particularly when used to compare different countries. We propose a thorough analysis of the properties of the different well-being measures and in particular how anchoring vignettes can be used to improve the comparability of well-being measures across population groups and across countries. To that end we will conduct several experiments in two population representative Internet panels: the American Life Panel (ALP) in the U.S. and the Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social sciences (LISS) panel in The Netherlands.

描述（申请人提供）：研究主观幸福感的主要冲动是政策如何影响一个国家内主观福祉的分布。了解政策效应的一种自然方法是比较各个国家的政策，并将其与观察到的幸福感差异联系起来。国际福祉比较的大多数工作都是基于全球满意度措施，例如邀请受访者以数字或言语范围评价其幸福感。这项工作产生了广泛矛盾的发现。最近，已经提出了经验丰富的福祉作为替代措施。两种测量幸福感的方法原则上都容易受到差异性功能的影响，尤其是在比较不同国家的情况下。我们建议对不同福祉措施的性质进行详尽的分析，尤其是如何使用锚定小插曲来改善人群群体和各国的福祉措施的可比性。为此，我们将在两个人口代表的互联网小组中进行多个实验：美国的美国生活小组（ALP）和荷兰社会科学纵向研究（LISS）小组的纵向互联网研究。