| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w18690 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 18690 |
| Comparing the Happiness Effects of Real and On-line Friends | |
| John F. Helliwell; Haifang Huang | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-01-11 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | A recent large Canadian survey permits us to compare real-time and on-line social networks as sources of subjective well-being. The sample of 5,000 is drawn randomly from an on-line pool of respondents, a group well placed to have and value on-line friendships. We find three key results. First, the number of real-life friends is positively correlated with subjective well-being (SWB) even after controlling for income, demographic variables and personality differences. Doubling the number of friends in real life has an equivalent effect on well-being as a 50% increase in income. Second, the size of online networks is largely uncorrelated with subjective well-being. Third, we find that real-life friends are much more important for people who are single, divorced, separated or widowed than they are for people who are married or living with a partner. Findings from large international surveys (the European Social Surveys 2002-2008) are used to confirm the importance of real-life social networks to SWB; they also indicate a significantly smaller value of social networks to married or partnered couples. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Other ; Economic Systems |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18690 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576360 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | John F. Helliwell,Haifang Huang. Comparing the Happiness Effects of Real and On-line Friends. 2013. |
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