Global Report on Student Well-Being: Volume III: Employment, Finances, Housing, and Transportation (Recent Research in Psychology)

"I suppose that most of the people reading this volume will have read or have access to Volume One of my Global Report on Student WellƯ Being. Therefore, I will not review the background literature relevant to multiple discrepancies theory (MDT), the theory itself or the esƯ sential features of the international university undergraduate data-set on which this whole report is based. Anyone familiar with my earlier papers (Michalos 1985, 1987, 1988) will have a good idea of MDT. However, one really has to have a look at the first volume of this study in order to appreciate the richness of a data-set consisting of over 18,000 cases drawn from 39 countries. As I indicated at the beƯ ginning of that volume, the data-set is available for a very modest cost to anyone who wants it and I do hope others will take advantage of it. The focus of Volume One was on happiness and satisfaction with life as a whole, so-called global indicators of subjective wellƯ being. Volume Two was devoted to an exploration of satisfaction with the interpersonal relations of family, friends and living partners, and personal self-esteem. This volume is concerned with satisfaction with material goods as indicated by the domains of paid employment, fiƯ nances, housing and transportation. In the fourth and final volume I will explain satisfaction with religion, education, recreation and health"--Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages i-x Literature Review....Pages 1-23 Satisfaction with One’s Paid Employment....Pages 24-42 Full-Time Employed Compared to Unemployed....Pages 43-64 Satisfaction with One’s Finances....Pages 65-78 Satisfaction with One’s Housing....Pages 79-91 Satisfaction with One’s Transportation....Pages 92-105 Concluding Remarks....Pages 106-109 Back Matter....Pages 110-306 Contents Preface vii 1 Literature Review 1 1. 1 Introduction 1 1. 2 Marriage and the Family '2 1. 3 Correlates of Family and Marital Satisfaction 3 1. 6 Self-Esteem and Satisfaction 11 2 Satisfaction with One's Family Relations 14 2. 1 Introduction 14 2. 2 Descriptive Statistics for World Sample, Males and Females 14 2. As far as I have been able to discern, the four remaining domains of investigation do not form any particular conceptual cluster.