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The Association between Subjective Well-being and Regime Type across 78 countries: the moderating role of Political Trust
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Abstract This study investigates the association between regime type, political trust, and subjective well-being (SWB) in 78 countries. Differently from previous works, democracy was conceptualized in terms of a multidimensional model (i.e., regime type), rather than a bipolar continuum ranging from authorit... mehr
This study investigates the association between regime type, political trust, and subjective well-being (SWB) in 78 countries. Differently from previous works, democracy was conceptualized in terms of a multidimensional model (i.e., regime type), rather than a bipolar continuum ranging from authoritarian regimes to full democracies. The first question was raised as to whether regime characteristics would be nonlinearly related to SWB. A second question was examined as to whether political trust could moderate the relationship between regime type and well-being, such that under conditions of high or low trust in the government the differences in well-being across the type of regimes would be reduced. Data from the European Values Study as well as from the World Value Survey were used. Moreover, regime types were defined according to the Varieties of Democracy as well as the Economist Intelligence Unit. Multilevel analyses revealed that life satisfaction scores were lower for electoral autocracy compared to closed autocracy and liberal democracy. Moreover, happiness scores were significantly higher for full democracies compared to authoritarian regimes and flawed democracies. Finally, political trust moderated the association between regime type and SWB. Specifically, at higher or lower levels of political trust, the relationship between regime type and well-being tended to decrease. Overall, the findings support the conclusion that the relationship between democracy and subjective well‐being is nonlinear, and that the role of political trust is as important as the role of democracy.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Lebenszufriedenheit; Glück; Wohlbefinden; Demokratie; Diktatur; Vertrauen; EVS; politisches Verhalten
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Sozialpsychologie
Freie Schlagwörter
anocracy; European Values Study 2017: Integrated Dataset (EVS 2017) (ZA7500 v4.0.0); Joint EVS/WVS 2017-2022 Dataset (Joint EVS/WVS) (ZA7505 v2.0.0)
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Seitenangabe
S. 3393-3413
Zeitschriftentitel
Applied Research in Quality of Life, 17 (2022) 6
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-022-10070-y
ISSN
1871-2576
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)