Mark Western|Wojtek Tomaszewski
Subjective Wellbeing, Objective Wellbeing and Inequality in Australia
ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course|University of Queensland|ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course|University of Queensland
recent years policy makers social scientists devoted considerable attention wellbeing concept refers peoples capacity live healthy creative fulfilling lives two conceptual approaches dominate wellbeing research objective approach examines objective components good life subjective approach examines peoples subjective evaluations lives objective approach subjective wellbeing relates objective wellbeing relevant research question subjective approach investigate objective wellbeing relates subjective wellbeing focused primarily one objective wellbeing indicator income rather comprehensive indicator set implied objective approach paper attempts contribute examining relationships comprehensive set objective wellbeing measures subjective wellbeing linking wellbeing research inequality research also investigating subjective objective wellbeing relate class gender age ethnicity use three waves representative statelevel household panel study queensland australia undertaken 2008 2010 investigate objective measures wellbeing socially distributed gender class age ethnicity also examine relationships objective wellbeing overall life satisfaction providing one first longitudinal analyses linking objective wellbeing subjective evaluations objective aspects wellbeing unequally distributed gender age class ethnicity strongly associated life satisfaction moreover associations gender ethnicity class life satisfaction persist controlling objective wellbeing suggesting mechanisms addition objective wellbeing link structural dimensions inequality life satisfaction