Malgorzata Mikucka

TL;DR: In this article, a multilevel analysis of harmonized data composed of the World Values Survey, the European Values Study, and macro-level indicators of economic growth and income inequality for 46 countries, observed from 1981 to 2012, showed that in the long run economic growth improves subjective well-being when social trust does not decline and when income inequality reduces.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the role of the trends of GDP and of social trust in predicting the trend of well-being in transition countries and found that the strength of the relationship between social trust and SWB over the medium-term is comparable to that of GDP.

TL;DR: This article used WVS-EVS integrated data (1990-2012) to describe the trends of 8 proxies of social capital in 30 Western and Eastern European countries, and found positive trends of trust in others, confidence in public services, and in armed forces; negative trends of participation in groups and associations, and of confidence in political institutions; mixed trends of civic cooperation, and confidence in religious and empowering institutions.

TL;DR: In this article, a multilevel regression methodology was used to test whether the well-being cost of own unemployment is higher in individualistic countries and among persons with more individualistic orientations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether the life satisfaction advantage of married over unmarried persons decreased over the last three decades, and whether the changes in the contextual gender specialization explained this trend.