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UNDERSTANDING THE RUSSIAN MALAISE: THE COLLAPSE AND RECOVERY OF SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING IN POST-COMMUNIST RUSSIA
Higher School of Economics
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2013.
This article analyzes the decline of subjective well-being and a sense of national self-esteem among the Russian people that was linked with the collapse of the communist economic, political and social systems in the 1990s—and a subsequent recovery of subjective well-being that began more recently. Subjective well-being is closely linked with economic development, democracy and physical health. The people of rich countries tend show higher levels than those of poor countries, but already in 1982, the Russia people ranked lower on happiness and life satisfaction than the people of much poorer countries such as Nigeria or India; external signs of this malaise were rising alcoholism and declining male life expectancy. But after the collapse of the Soviet Union, subjective well-being in Russia fell to levels never seen before, reaching a low point in 1995 when most Russians described themselves as unhappy and dissatisfied with their lives as a whole. Since 2000, this trend has been reversing itself, but in 2011 Russia still ranked slightly lower than its level in 1981.
Foa R., Inglehart R. F., Ponarin E. et al., Journal of Happiness Studies 2018 Vol. 19 No. 6 P. 1639-1656
Can a society’s overall level of happiness change? Until recently, it was widely held that happiness fluctuates around set-points, so that neither individuals nor societies can lastingly increase their happiness. However, data from surveys carried out in Russia from 1982 to 2011 show that happiness fell substantially following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and ...
Added: June 4, 2017
Shirokanova A., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Серия 12: Социология 2020 № 1 С. 4-24
The paper reviews and analyses Russian surveys on subjective wellbeing, one of the key noneconomic indicators of social development. Two main indicators, the level of happiness and overall life satisfaction, are compared across eight international and Russian research projects, 1998-2018 (European Social Survey, European Values Study, World Values Survey, RLMSHSE, the “Eurobarometer in Russia” project, surveys by ...
Added: December 28, 2019
Gureev A. S., Ananieva E. D., Rubanovich A. V. et al., Russian Journal of Genetics 2018 Vol. 54 No. 5 P. 562-567
Quality of life and one’s subjective evaluation of one’s own happiness and well-being are the conventional focus of psychology and sociology. However, a genetic factor has recently been found to affect the subjective evaluation of well-being. The contribution of heredity to a personal level of happiness and life satisfaction has been estimated at 30–50% in twin studies. ...
Added: October 20, 2018
Dolgov A., Социальные и гуманитарные науки. Отечественная и зарубежная литература. Серия 11: Социология 2020 № 3 С. 11-31
The review examines approaches to the conceptualisation of happiness; the problem of empirical «equivalents» that developed for its operationalisation is discussed; the historical and linguistic aspects of the transformation of the concept of «happiness» are described. Despite the problematic nature of translating the concept of happiness from the language of everyday use into the language ...
Added: September 2, 2020
Гуреев А. С., Ананьева Е. Д., Рубанович А. В. et al., Генетика 2017 Т. 54 № 5 С. 556-562
Quality of life and one’s subjective evaluation of one’s own happiness and well-being are the conventional focus of psychology and sociology. However, a genetic factor has recently been found to afect the subjective evaluation of well-being. The contribution of heredity to a personal level of happiness and life satisfaction has been estimated at 30-50% in ...
Added: April 15, 2018
Inglehart R. F., Borinskaya S., Cotter A. et al., / National Research University Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2013. No. 31/SOC/2013.
This paper discusses correlations between certain genetic characterestics of the human populations and their aggregate levels of tolerance and happiness. We argue that a major cause of the systematic clustering of genetic characteristics may be climatic conditions linked with relatively high or low levels of parasite. This may lead certain populations to develop gene pools ...
Added: July 15, 2014
Boniwell I., Osin E. N., Renton A., Open Psychology Journal 2015 Vol. 8 No. 1 P. 44-53
Purpose. The existing studies of the association between Internet usage and well-being have produced contradictory results. This study explores the associations between Internet access at home and well-being, as well as other lifestyle variables.
Design/methodology/approach. The study was done in a probability sample of 800 community-dwelling adults aged 16 and over in six most deprived areas ...
Added: December 24, 2014
Leontiev D., Social Sciences 2012 No. 2 P. 93-104
The philosophical and psychological views on the problem of happiness since Aristotle to our days are summarized. Building on both philosophical discussions and recent data of sociological and psychological research, the author reveals two qualitatively distinct phenomena behind the common word “happiness”, that have different attributes and regularities. The firs one is the experience of ...
Added: May 9, 2013
Kolosnitsyna M., Khorkina N., Dorzhiev K., / Высшая школа экономики. Series WP BRP "Economics/EC". 2014. No. WP BRP 68/EC/2014.
The world population is ageing and this demographic trend has become the subject of numerous research projects and discussions. In Russia, this process has also become a topic for many studies examining socio-economic characteristics and health status of elderly, their retirement behaviours. That said, research on the life satisfaction of Russian seniors and its determinants ...
Added: October 16, 2014
Камалов Э. А., Ponarin E., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2020 № 1 С. 177-205
Since the beginning of the 2000s, subjective well-being of the Russians was growing due to growing incomes and strengthening optimism about the future. However, the worsening economic situation following the crisis in 2008 did not cause the expected fall in subjective well-being rates. One plausible explanation is the growth of national pride. In this paper, it is tested whether or not national pride positively and causally ...
Added: March 2, 2020
Bogolyubova O., Tikhonov R., Ivanov V. et al., Journal of Interpersonal Violence 2020 Vol. 35 No. 5-6 P. 1476-1491
*Реализация соц. сети Facebook запрещена на территории России по основаниям осуществления экстремистской деятельности.
Exposure to violence has been shown to negatively affect mental health and well-being. The goal of this Facebook-based study was to describe the rates of exposure to violence in a sample of Russian adults and to assess the impact of these experiences on ...
Added: February 18, 2019
Zhdanova S. Y., Mishlanova S. L., Shavkunova A. V. et al., Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 2015 Vol. 6 No. 3 P. 233-240
The article presents the results of a study of Russian and American students’ narrative of happiness. Verbal and nonverbal representations of the phenomenon of happiness were analyzed on a sample of Russian and American students. The general and specific features were determined. It was found, that happiness is connected with involving in activities for both ...
Added: September 8, 2015
Almakaeva A., Гашенина Н., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2020 Т. 155 № 1 С. 4-13
The current paper provides a brief overview of subjective well-being studies in Russia. The authors analyze definitions and measurement of such concepts as «subjective quality of life», «social mood», «social well-being». The concept of «social well-being», which has the widest application among Russian social researchers, has two possible interpretations. Only its narrow interpretation can be ...
Added: August 10, 2020
Bartolini S., Mikucka M., Sarracino F., Social Indicators Research 2015 P. 1-20
Trends of subjective well-being (SWB) in transition countries are peculiar: they show substantial changes that are more strongly correlated with the trends of GDP than in other developed countries. This paper examines the role of the trends of GDP and of social trust in predicting the trends of well-being. We find that the strength of ...
Added: January 24, 2016
Kozlov V. A., Cherviakova A. A., Journal of Population Ageing 2018
This study focuses on the understanding the problem if there are differences across Europe in subjective well-being of generations born before, during and shortly after the Second World War. It is based on 6 rounds (from 2002 to 2012) of European Social Survey (ESS) for 16 countries (excluding participating less than 4 times). We used ...
Added: October 3, 2017
Leontiev D., Человек 2011 № 5 С. 34-46
The philosophical and psychological views on the problem of happiness since Aristotle to our days are summarized. Building on both philosophical discussions and recent data of sociological and psychological research, the author reveals two qualitatively distinct phenomena behind the common word “happiness”, that have different attributes and regularities. The firs one is the experience of ...
Added: May 9, 2013
Pyle W., Schoors K., Semenova M. et al., / Universiteit Gent. Series Jaar "Working Paper". 2012. No. 780.
In the immediate aftermath of Russia’s 1998 crisis household depositors withdrew money from the insolvent and state-owned Sberbank, despite its unique protection by two explicit government guarantees and its reputation of a repository of trust. This was less the case in well-educated, older, more conservative and remote regions and more so in wealthy, entrepreneurial and ...
Added: November 12, 2013
Kravchuk N. V., Irish Review of Community Economic Development Law and Policy 2012 Vol. 1 No. 2 P. 63-82
The main focus of this paper is the relation between the realisation of the right of the child to express his/her views and democracy in Russia. With this in view, I will study the interconnection between the right to express the views and the right to participate. Further, I will give an overview of the ...
Added: May 15, 2012
Biryukova S., Sinyavskaya O., Journal of Social Policy Studies 2017 Vol. 15 No. 3 P. 367-382
The paper presents a detailed analysis of the Russian official statistics for orphans and children placed out of parental care. Employing a wide range of data sources, the authors show that in Russia, the primary risk of orphanhood remains high. Although it has declined over the last 15 years, in 2015, the share of children ...
Added: September 26, 2017
Tovar-García E. D., Alòs i Font H., Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 2016
This article empirically studies the impact of bilingualism on educational achievements. This relationship has been thoroughly studied in a number of countries around the world, but not in Russia. We used a sample of 709 ethnic Tatar school students aged 15–16 (in the ninth grade) in the spring of the year 2010. We found a ...
Added: August 20, 2016
Панкратова А. А., Osin E. N., Психологические исследования: электронный научный журнал 2015 Т. 8 № 44 С. 6-6
We test the measurement invariance of Emotional Control Values (ECV) questionnaire by A. Mauss which measures the value of emotional control and self-efficacy of emotional control; the study uses samples from Russia (N=256) and Azerbaijan (N=205). Using multi-group confirmatory factor analysis we developed partial scalar invariance models which allow to compare the latent factor parameters ...
Added: December 15, 2015
Kodja E., Lebedeva N., / Высшая школа экономики. Series PSY "Psychology". 2018. No. 97.
Recent geopolitical changes in Crimea initiated the process of massive identity transformation among ethnic majority and minority groups. Current study was aimed at examining the role of multiple identities and acculturation strategies in the psychological well-being of Crimean Tatar minority (N=80). The study revealed high motivation for ethno-cultural continuity among Crimean Tatars. The combination of ethnic, religious and ...
Added: October 18, 2018
Semenenko I. S., Europe-Asia Studies 2015 Vol. 67 No. 2 P. 306-326
The post-Soviet period in Russia has seen the emergence of strong identities shaped around ethnicity issues. The current Putin presidency is marked by a political concern for the 'national question' with strong traditionalist connotations. State dominated politics of identity promoting an encompassing Russian (rossiyskaya) identity aim to become a game changer in nation-building. This agenda ...
Added: February 29, 2016
Mitrofanova E., / National Research University Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2017. No. 78/SOC/2017.
The aim of this study is to compare the sociodemographic events marking the transition to adulthood in France, Estonia and Russia: first leaving parents, completion of education, first partnership, first marriage and first childbirth. We used the first waves of the Generations and Gender Survey for these three countries and an advanced method – Sequence ...
Added: December 3, 2017