Air Pollution Reduces the Individuals’ Life Satisfaction Through Health Impairment

Mary Abed Al Ahad ()
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Mary Abed Al Ahad: University of St Andrews

Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2024, vol. 19, issue 3, No 9, 1049-1073

Abstract: Abstract The impact of air pollution on individuals’ happiness and life satisfaction (LS), and its relationship to other factors became the focus of recent research. Though, the underlying mechanism of how air pollution impacts LS remains unclear. In this study, we examined the direct and indirect effect of air pollution on individuals’ LS through health mediation. We used longitudinal individual-level data from “Understanding-Society: the UK Household-Longitudinal Study” on 59,492 individuals with 347,377 repeated responses across 11 years (2009–2019) that was linked to yearly concentrations of NO2, SO2, and particulate-matter (PM10, PM2.5) pollution. Generalized structural equation models with multilevel ordered-logistic regression were used to examine the direct effect of air pollution on LS and the indirect effect from health impairment. Higher concentrations of NO2 (coefficient = 0.009, 95%CI = 0.007,0.012, p

Keywords: Air pollution; Life satisfaction; Health; Mediating role; Longitudinal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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