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Family Constellations and Life Satisfaction in Europe

Daniele Vignoli (vignoli@disia.unifi.it), Elena Pirani (pirani@disia.unifi.it) and Silvana Salvini (salvini@disia.unifi.it)

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2014, vol. 117, issue 3, 967-986

Abstract: Existing research on family and well-being has generally focused on the traditional family, and has largely ignored the increasing diversity in family forms and relations. Our aim in this paper is to help fill this gap by investigating the extent of the relationship between living arrangements and life satisfaction (LS) in Europe. We examined variations in life satisfaction by applying a multilevel approach (i.e., individuals nested in countries) to data from the 2007 European Quality of Life Survey. First, we found that levels of life satisfaction among families consisting of couples with children were significantly higher than among people in other (less typical) family arrangements. Second, our results illustrate that after the socioeconomic situation of the family was taken into account, the influence of family status on LS disappeared almost completely. Overall, our findings suggest that the lower levels of life satisfaction experienced by people living in atypical families can be largely attributed to their weaker socioeconomic position. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

Keywords: Life satisfaction; Living arrangement; Socio-economic status; Multilevel analysis; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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