social capital, income and personal well-being case study: iran

Unemployment, Social Capital, and Subjective Well-Being

Unemployment, Social Capital, and Subjective Well-Being It has been shown in past research that unemployment has a large negative impact on subjective well-being of individuals. In this paper, I explore whether and to what extent people with more social capital are sheltered from the harmful effects of unemployment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984-2004, I find that social c...

Capitalist crises, social capital and well-being

Alleviating poverty is among the most laudable aim of the Millennium Development Goals. However, policies aimed at alleviating poverty could only be successful if they are underpinned by clear understanding of mechanisms which contribute to poverty incidences and distributions. This study seeks to investigate the effect of major capitalist crises, such as the Asian financial crisis on health di...

Examining Relationships Between Financial Capital And Personal Well-Being

Researchers have traditionally examined economic well-being with income data, yet recent findings indicate positive effects of assets on well-being, independent from income. For this study, baseline data from 904 low-income individuals were used to examine relationships between income, assets, and personal, social, and economic outcomes. Baseline findings indicate that financial assets did not ...

Well - Being and Social Capital : Does Suicide Pose a Puzzle ?

Well-Being and Social Capital: Does Suicide Pose a Puzzle? John F. Helliwell Abstract This paper has a double purpose: to see how well Durkheim’s (1897) findings apply a century later, and to see if the beneficial effects of social capital on suicide prevention are parallel to those already found for subjective well-being (Helliwell 2003). In the life satisfaction and social capital data, Scand...

Cuing consumerism: situational materialism undermines personal and social well-being.

Correlational evidence indicates that materialistic individuals experience relatively low levels of well-being. Across four experiments, we found that situational cuing can also trigger materialistic mind-sets, with similarly negative personal and social consequences. Merely viewing desirable consumer goods resulted in increases in materialistic concerns and led to heightened negative affect an...

Does personal social media usage affect efficiency and well-being?