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THE IMPACT OF SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS ON LIFE SATISFACTION AND HAPPINESS

In recent times, subjective well-being has been increasingly studied from the perspective of economists within the scientific branch called the economics of happiness. In the aim of defining and quantifying subjective well-being (SWB), despite numerous studies on global level, in recent years the focus of research on life satisfaction and happiness, as the two most important concepts of subjective well- being, is on the lower territorial, i.e. local levels. This paper analyzes life satisfaction and happiness (n = 1019) based on primary research in the city of Osijek, Croatia, on a representative sample. The goal of this paper is to compare different approaches in measuring life satisfaction and happiness (dependent variables). Analysis of variance of the expressed life satisfaction and happiness of citizens in the city of Osijek has enabled insights into statistically significant differences of two subjective well-being variables with regard to socio-demographic characteristics of respondents. The research results can be used as a guideline for the design of local politics by its creators.

analysis of variance; city development; economics of happiness; life satisfaction; subjective well-being

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