Global Report on Student Well-Being: Volume III: Employment, Finances, Housing, and Transportation

ISBN-13: 9780387979489 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 306 str.

Alex C. Michalos

Opis

I suppose that most of the people reading this volume will have read or have access to Volume One of my Global Report on Student Well Being. Therefore, I will not review the background literature relevant to multiple discrepancies theory (MDT), the theory itself or the es sential features of the international university undergraduate data-set on which this whole report is based. Anyone familiar with my earlier papers (Michalos 1985, 1987, 1988) will have a good idea of MDT. However, one really has to have a look at the first volume of this study in order to appreciate the richness of a data-set consisting of over 18,000 cases drawn from 39 countries. As I indicated at the be ginning of that volume, the data-set is available for a very modest cost to anyone who wants it and I do hope others will take advantage of it. The focus of Volume One was on happiness and satisfaction with life as a whole, so-called global indicators of subjective well being. Volume Two was devoted to an exploration of satisfaction with the interpersonal relations of family, friends and living partners, and personal self-esteem. This volume is concerned with satisfaction with material goods as indicated by the domains of paid employment, fi nances, housing and transportation. In the fourth and final volume I will explain satisfaction with religion, education, recreation and health."

Spis treści

1 Literature Review.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Paid Employment/Job Satisfaction.- 1.3 Income and Finances.- 1.4 Housing and Transportation.- 2 Satisfaction with One’s Paid Employment.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Descriptive Statistics for World Sample, Males and Females.- 2.3 Satisfaction Explained by MDT for World Sample.- 2.4 Satisfaction Explained by MDT for Males and Females.- 2.5 Twenty-Five Countries.- 2.6 Prediction Success Ratios.- 3 Full-Time Employed Compared to Unemployed.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Sample Composition.- 3.3 Life Satisfaction and Happiness Explained by Satisfaction in 12 domains and 7 Demographic Variables for Full-Time Employed and Unemployed Students, Males and Females.- 3.4 Overview of Explanations by MDT of Happiness and Satisfaction in All Domains for Full-Time Employed and Unemployed Students, Males and Females.- 3.5 Domain Specific Explanations by MDT of Happiness and Satisfaction in All Domains for Full-Time Employed and Unemployed Students, Males and Females.- 3.6 Satisfaction with One’s Paid Employment Explained by MDT for Full-Time Employed Students, Males and Females.- 4 Satisfaction with One’s Finances.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Descriptive Statistics for World Sample, Males and Females.- 4.3 Satisfaction Explained by MDT for World Sample.- 4.4 Satisfaction Explained by MDT for Males and Females.- 4.5 Thirty-Eight Countries.- 4.6 Prediction Success Ratios.- 5 Satisfaction with One’s Housing.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Descriptive Statistics for World Sample, Males and Females.- 5.3 Satisfaction Explained by MDT for World Sample.- 5.4 Satisfaction Explained by MDT for Males and Females.- 5.5 Thirty-Eight Countries.- 5.6 Prediction Success Ratios.- 6 Satisfaction with One’s Transportation.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Descriptive Statistics for World Sample, Males and Females.- 6.3 Satisfaction Explained by MDT for World Sample.- 6.4 Satisfaction Explained by MDT for Males and Females.- 6.5 Thirty-Eight Countries.- 6.6 Prediction Success Ratios.- 7 Concluding Remarks.- References.- Appendix 1. Abbreviations and definitions.- Appendix 2. Results of regressions using MDT to explain satisfaction with one’s employment, alphabetically by country and university.- Appendix 3. Results of regressions using MDT to explain happiness and satisfaction in all domains for full-time employed students, males and females.- Appendix 4. Results of regressions using MDT to explain happiness and satisfaction in all domains for unemployed students, males and females.- Appendix 5. Results of regressions using MDT to explain satisfaction with one’s finances, alphabetically by country and university.- Appendix 6. Results of regressions using MDT to explain satisfaction with one’s housing, alphabetically by country and university.- Appendix 7. Results of regressions using MDT to explain satisfaction with one’s transportation, alphabetically by country and university.