In the Europe Countries
• Germany is known as a leading European economy. A
study has been carried out over 81,000 person-year
observation and the result indicate that there has been
no rise in avarage life satisfaction though their incomes
have risen significantly.
• Based on European Value Survey in 1999, the statistical
analyis informed that happiness and life satisfaction
are related but are not the same concept and
contextual. Happiness depends on whether respondent
live in a stable relationship and on country
characteristics. Whilst, life satisfaction related to
respondent’s feeing of control and his or her country.
• A survey in Europe aimed to address the
mystery of countries that are economically
very similar but differ in their levels of selfreported life-satisfaction and happiness.
Those countries are Austria, Belgium,
Denmark, Findland, Iceland, Germany (East
and West separately) the Netherlands, and
Sweden.
The result
In Latin America Countries
Though Chile is one of the most wealthy in Latin America and the
Caribean, but 10 countries with lower percapita incomes among
Guatemala, Venezuela and Brazil said that they were more satisfied
with their quality of life.
• Most of them are satisfied with the quality of education (though
still below with their peers in Asia and Europe)
• Informal Job ( though they lack of pensions plans or other benefits
of a stable job)
Quality of ife is not simply he result of “objective” conditions, which
are the aspect of lives f individuals that are externally observable. The
way individuals perceive these onditions and the evaluation they make
of their own live are also cenral aspects of wuality of life.
Life expectancy vs GDP
Map of happineSatisfaction with Life Index Map - Map was published in White, A.
(2007). A Global Projection of Subjective Well-being: A Challenge To Positive
Psychology? Psychtalk 56, 17-20.
"The data on SWB [Subjective Well- Being] was extracted from a meta- analysis by
Marks, Abdallah, Simms & Thompson (2006)." ss over the world
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