Human values, subjective well-being and the metropolitan region

Philip S. Morrison and Mikko Weckroth

Regional Studies, 2018, vol. 52, issue 3, 325-337

Abstract: Human values, subjective well-being and the metropolitan region. Regional Studies. Living in a country’s largest metropolitan centre has a negative effect on subjective well-being. Although documented in many developed economies, the reasons for this particular geography of well-being are still poorly understood. Meanwhile a separate body of research has shown that the holding of extrinsic or personally focused values is also associated with lower levels of subjective well-being. This paper demonstrates the link between the two. It draws on the European Social Survey (ESS) 2012 to show how metropolitan residents in Finland are more likely to hold extrinsic values such as power and achievement.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2017.1331036

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