Does becoming a parent change the meaning of happiness and life satisfaction? Evidence from the European Social Survey

André Pirralha; Henrik Dobewall

Does becoming a parent change the meaning of happiness and life satisfaction? Evidence from the European Social Survey

André Pirralha, Henrik Dobewall

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This study aims to determine whether subjective well-being has a different psychological meaning for parents and childless respondents. We analyzed comparative data of the third round of the European Social Survey (ESS; N=10,913). After case-control matching, in line with previous work, we found that in some Eastern European countries and Ireland non-mothers report higher SWB levels than mothers. Mothers from the other countries and fathers reported higher SWB levels than non-mothers from these countries and non-fathers. However, resorting to structural equation modelling, we tested for measurement invariance across groups and no indication of differences between parents and childless respondents was found. Having established full scalar measurement invariance, it was determined that measurement is not responsible for the low SWB levels of mothers in some European countries.

Originalspråk	engelska
Titel på värdpublikation	Proceedings of the 48th scientific meeting of the Italian Statistical Society : SIS2016 Proceedings
Utgivningsort	Fisciano (SA), Italy
Förlag	Universita degli Studi di Salerno
Utgivningsdatum	juni 2016
ISBN (elektroniskt)	978-88-6197-061-8
Status	Publicerad - juni 2016
MoE-publikationstyp	A4 Artikel i en konferenspublikation
Evenemang	Meetings of italian statistical society - Fisciano (SA), Italy, Italien Varaktighet: 8 juni 2016 → 10 juni 2016 Konferensnummer: 48 (SIS2016)

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515 Psykologi

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Pirralha, A & Dobewall, H 2016, Does becoming a parent change the meaning of happiness and life satisfaction? Evidence from the European Social Survey. i Proceedings of the 48th scientific meeting of the Italian Statistical Society: SIS2016 Proceedings. Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy, Meetings of italian statistical society, Fisciano (SA), Italy, Italien, 08/06/2016.

Does becoming a parent change the meaning of happiness and life satisfaction? Evidence from the European Social Survey. / Pirralha, André; Dobewall, Henrik.
Proceedings of the 48th scientific meeting of the Italian Statistical Society: SIS2016 Proceedings. Fisciano (SA), Italy: Universita degli Studi di Salerno, 2016.

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