RT Journal Article
T1 Social capital dimensions and subjective wellbeing: A quantile approach
A1 Neira Gómez, Isabel
A1 Lacalle-Calderón, Maricruz
A1 Portela, Marta
A1 Pérez Trujillo, Manuel
K1 Social capital
K1 Subjective well-being
K1 Quantile regression.
AB This paper investigates the effects of the different dimensions of social capital (i.e., trust, socialnetwork and civic engagement-including norms) on subjective well-being (SWB) at the individuallevel by attending to differences between the extremes of SWB distribution, this is between thehappiest and unhappiest people. To this end, we use the 7th wave of the 2014 European SocialSurvey (ESS) to run a quantile regression analysis to investigate whether any of these dimensionsof social capital has a heterogeneous effect on the full distribution of well-being. We also performa factor analysis to summarize the principal components of these three dimensions. Our resultsshow that each dimension of social capital has a positive and significant correlation with SWB,but the different dimensions have a heterogeneous effect on the different quantiles of the wellbeing distribution. All of these dimensions of social capital have a stronger effect on the SWB ofthe least happy people in society than on the happiest.
PB Springer Nature
SN 2551–2579
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32144
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32144
LA eng
NO Neira, I., Lacalle-Calderon, M., Portela, M., & Perez-Trujillo, M. (2019). Social capital dimensions and subjective well-being: A quantile approach. Journal of Happiness Studies, 20, 2551-2579
NO This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-018-0028-6
DS Minerva
RD 25 abr 2026