Association of environmental and sociodemographic factors with life satisfaction in 27 European countries

Abstract: Background: Life satisfaction is a cognitive and evaluative judgement of one’s outlook on life and an integral component of subjective wellbeing. There is a strong association between life satisfaction and mental and physical health, but it is currently unclear how environmental factors may influence life satisfaction. Our aim was to investigate the association between environmental factors and life satisfaction and to gain a better understanding of general life satisfaction statistics in the EU. Methods: We used a three-level mixed effects logistic regression model to examine the effects of sociodemographic, macroeconomic and environmental factors on life satisfaction using a large sample size from Eurobarometer surveys (n = 268,696) representative of 27 EU countries. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews between May 2014 and June 2015. Results: We found wide variation between countries, as well as between regions within the same country with regards to levels of lif

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: BMC Public Health ; 19 (2019) ; 1-8

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2019
• Creator: Rajani, Nikita B. ; Skiani, Vassilis ; Filippidis, Filippos

Further information

• DOI: 10.1186/s12889-019-6886-y
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-74708-2
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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