Neira Gómez, IsabelLacalle-Calderón, MaricruzPortela, MartaPérez Trujillo, Manuel2024-01-312024-01-312019Neira, 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, 2551-25792551–2579http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32144This 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/s10902-018-0028-6This paper investigates the effects of the different dimensions of social capital (i.e., trust, social network and civic engagement-including norms) on subjective well-being (SWB) at the individual level by attending to differences between the extremes of SWB distribution, this is between the happiest and unhappiest people. To this end, we use the 7 th wave of the 2014 European Social Survey (ESS) to run a quantile regression analysis to investigate whether any of these dimensions of social capital has a heterogeneous effect on the full distribution of well-being. We also perform a factor analysis to summarize the principal components of these three dimensions. Our results show 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 of the least happy people in society than on the happiest.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Social capitalSubjective well-beingQuantile regression.journal article10.1007/s10902-018-0028-6open access