Subjective Well-being in Spain’s Decline

People or places? Perceived left-behindness and subjective well-being in Italy

Subjective Feeling of Happiness and Social Determinants of Quality of Life

The aim of the study was to develop an integrated conceptual synthesis of the relationships between individual experiences of well-being, assessments of living conditions, and social-environmental factors, while distinguishing their direct, mediated, and context-dependent associations. The study was conducted in Septem...

Informal Caregiving and Subjective Well-Being: Empirical Evidence from Colombia (2018–2024)

The Invisible Hand and the General Will: Rethinking Social Well-being

What does it truly mean for a society to prosper? At first glance, prosperity may appear to consist in producing more, generating wealth, and improving material conditions. Yet this definition is insufficient when economic growth coexists with deep inequality, relations of dependence, or unequal access to the benefits...

Assessment of the Well-Being of Members of Large Families in Russia, Taking into Account the Subjective Component

The article aims to assess the well-being of families raising three or more minor children. The author’s assessment relies on the most commonly used approach in Russian and foreign scholarly literature, according to which well-being is considered as a complex category that includes both objective and subjective compo-n...

The Invisible Grid: Health, Human Capital and the Conversion of Well-Being into Economic ValueA comparative reading of Algeria and Malaysia, 2023-2024

Two countries can look alike on the number that health policy celebrates most often, how long people live, and still differ sharply in what that health is worth to the economy. In 2023 life expectancy was 76.3 years in Algeria and 76.7 in Malaysia. Yet gross national income per head was about 15,100 international dolla...