- 著者
- Hiroshi Kanbayashi Carola Hommerich Naoki Sudo
- 出版者
- Japanese Association For Mathematical Sociology
- 雑誌
- 理論と方法 (ISSN:09131442)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.36, no.2, pp.259-277, 2021 (Released:2022-03-31)
- 著者
- Jun Kobayashi Carola Hommerich
- 出版者
- Japanese Association For Mathematical Sociology
- 雑誌
- 理論と方法 (ISSN:09131442)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.32, no.1, pp.49-63, 2017 (Released:2017-07-19)
- 参考文献数
- 33
Within the booming field of research on subjective well-being, happiness and unhappiness have so far been treated as two ends of a continuum with causes and mechanisms being the same for both. Still, this is not self-evident. We here use the SSP2015 survey data to investigate whether happiness and unhappiness have the same determinants. To do so, we classify the respondents into three well-being groups: the “happier than average,” the “average,” and the “less happy than average.” We conduct a multinomial logistic regression analysis to disentangle the effects of education depending on the level of happiness. Our results imply that (1) more education promotes happiness of unhappy people. At the same time, however, we find that (2) an increase in education reduces the happiness of happy people. This means that the impact of education on happiness is by no means straightforward, but that it can have opposing effects depending on the happiness level. This supports our hypothesis that some determinants have different effects on different happiness levels. It also implies that an enhancement of subjective well-being cannot be achieved in the same way for happy and unhappy people. Therefore, happiness and unhappiness turn out not to be two sides of the same coin.