Essays on the economic psychology of well-being
This thesis consists of three chapters that improve our knowledge of how income shapes well-being. Chapter 1 (“Measuring Affect Dynamics: An Empirical Framework”) presents an empirically-derived framework to conduct experience sampling studies of affect dynamics. Chapter 2 (“Happiness Without a Fina...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/674309 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/674309 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Well-being Renta Bienestar 33 |
| Sumario: | This thesis consists of three chapters that improve our knowledge of how income shapes well-being. Chapter 1 (“Measuring Affect Dynamics: An Empirical Framework”) presents an empirically-derived framework to conduct experience sampling studies of affect dynamics. Chapter 2 (“Happiness Without a Financial Safety Net: Low Income Predicts Emotional Volatility”) examines how income shapes the emotional lives of 23,000 individuals whose happiness was tracked in real-time using a smartphone app. Lower income is associated with increased happiness volatility, a relationship that is partially explained by the experience of more frequent and intense periods of extreme unhappiness among low-income individuals. Chapter 3 (“Income, Boredom, and Mental Health”) shows that lowincome individuals experience more frequent boredom and that their affective experience of this emotion is more closely associated with depressed and anxious mood. Consequently, income moderates the relationship between boredom and the experience of clinical depression episodes. |
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