Ingresos y la felicidad en tiempo de la modernización post-comunista.

Ingresos y la felicidad en tiempo de la modernización  post-comunista.

Income and Happiness in Time of Post-Communist Modernization Krzysztof Zagórski Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland Soc Indic Res. 2011 November; 104(2): 331-349.  doi:  10.1007/s11205-010-9749-6 This paper discusses the relations between economic development, family income, and happiness in post-communist Poland from the point of view of Inglehart's theory of modernization. The happiness is understood as satisfaction with income and life, and as psychological well-being. The analysis of survey data yields the conclusion that economic development reduces the strength of the relations between income and satisfaction as well as between income and psychological well-being. These findings may be explained by changes in the value system from collectivist/materialist to individualist/post-materialist, even when these values are not directly measured. The analyzed data are from a series of representative surveys conducted in Poland during a period of political and economic transformation (i.e., between 1989 and 2008). Official statistical data on Polish economic development during the same period are used as a background for survey results. The relations between income and happiness change in Poland in a way consistent with Inglehart's modernization theory. keywords: Economic development, Income, Life satisfaction, Material satisfaction, Psychological well-being http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3183267/pdf/11205_2010_Article_9749.pdf