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A New Research Agenda for Improvements in Quality of LifeExplaining the Ethnic Minority Disadvantage in Subjective Well-Being: A Multilevel Analysis of European Countries

A New Research Agenda for Improvements in Quality of Life: Explaining the Ethnic Minority... [In this study we try to explain the difference in subjective well-being between citizens who self-identify as a member of an ethnic minority group and citizens who describe themselves as a member of the majority population. We use data from 20 countries that are represented in the fifth edition of the European Social Survey, with more than 1,500 ethnic minority respondents and 36,000 respondents in total. Though initially majority-minority differences in both life satisfaction and happiness can be observed, with ethnic minority respondents having lower levels, these differences can be fully explained by the fact that ethnic minority respondents occupy relatively disadvantaged socio-economic positions and experience more discrimination in society, and this finding is in line with the need-gratification theory of subjective well-being.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A New Research Agenda for Improvements in Quality of LifeExplaining the Ethnic Minority Disadvantage in Subjective Well-Being: A Multilevel Analysis of European Countries

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 57)
Editors: Maggino, Filomena
de Vroome, Thomas; Hooghe, Marc
A New Research Agenda for Improvements in Quality of Life — Jan 31, 2015
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
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978-3-319-15903-4
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87 –108
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-15904-1_5
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Abstract

[In this study we try to explain the difference in subjective well-being between citizens who self-identify as a member of an ethnic minority group and citizens who describe themselves as a member of the majority population. We use data from 20 countries that are represented in the fifth edition of the European Social Survey, with more than 1,500 ethnic minority respondents and 36,000 respondents in total. Though initially majority-minority differences in both life satisfaction and happiness can be observed, with ethnic minority respondents having lower levels, these differences can be fully explained by the fact that ethnic minority respondents occupy relatively disadvantaged socio-economic positions and experience more discrimination in society, and this finding is in line with the need-gratification theory of subjective well-being.]

Published: Jan 31, 2015

Keywords: Life satisfaction; Happiness; Ethnic minorities; Need-gratification; Economic integration; Discrimination

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