TÜRKİYE’DE ÖZNEL İYİ OLUŞ’UN YAŞAM ALANLARI YAKLAŞIMI İLE ÖLÇÜLMESİ

2013 Dünya Mutluluk Raporuna göre 156 ülkenin yer aldığı ve Dünya mutluluk oranının 5.158 olduğu mutluluk derecelendirme sıralamasında, Türkiye 5.345 oranıyla 77. sırada yer almıştır. Bu nedenle, öznel iyi oluşun ölçümünün Türkiye için çeşitli açılardan incelenmesi politika yapıcıların kararlarında önem kazanmaktadır. Bu amaçla çalışmada, genel yaşam memnuniyeti ve alt alanları olarak belirlenen finans, iş, kişinin kendinden, hobilerinden ve sosyal ilişkilerinden memnuniyetini etkileyen sosyo-ekonomik ve demografik faktörlerin sıralı lojit model aracılığıyla incelenmesi amaçlanmaktadır. 2013 Gelir ve Yaşam Koşulları Araştırmasının kullanıldığı çalışma sonucunda, literatürle uyumlu bir şekilde, yaşam alanlarındaki memnuniyetin genel yaşam memnuniyetini pozitif yönde etkilediği bulunmuştur. Ayrıca, yaş ile öznel iyi oluş arasındaki ilişki 42 yaşında maksimum noktaya ulaştığı ve ters-U şeklinde olduğu ortaya konmuştur. Eğitim, sağlık ve göreli gelir değişkenleri ise öznel iyi oluşu pozitif etkilemektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Sıralı lojit model, Öznel İyi Oluş, Yaşam Memnuniyeti

MEASUREMENT OF SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING IN TURKEY BY DOMAINS-OF-LIFE APPROACH

According to the 2013 World Happiness Report, Turkey is in 77th place with a score of 5.345 among 156 countries, while overall happiness rate is 5.158. Due to Turkey’s place in the happiness ratings, measurement of subjective well-being gains importance for scientists and policy makers. For this purpose, this study investigates the relationship between life satisfaction and satisfaction in domains of life. This investigation has information about person’s satisfaction in five life domains which are finance, job, self, leisure activities and social relations. Thus, the study attempts to develop an ordinal logistic regression model to identify not only the relation between life satisfaction and satisfaction in domains of life but also relationship between overall life satisfaction and socio-economic variables using the data Turkey Income and Living Conditions Survey 2013. The estimation results indicate that finance domain affects positively subjective well-being more than any other domains. The coefficient of relative income is found significant in all domain specific estimations. Also, age and subjective well-being relation follows an inverted-U shape pattern with a peak around 42 years.

Keywords:

Ordered logit model, Subjective Well-being, Life Satisfaction,

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