Nonkes, Jip (2022) Predicting life satisfaction from social leisure. Bachelor thesis, Sociology.
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Abstract
Dutch people are considered to be some of the happiest people on earth and according to themselves they live good lives. As we know, Dutch weather is not always great, thus there has to be something else that influences their life satisfaction. Most Dutch people have a good balance between their work life and private life, and they spend at least the same amount of time on leisure as they do on work obligations. This might be a reason for the high ratings of life satisfaction because most of the time, leisure time is spent doing something you like. Doing things we like has a positive influence on our life satisfaction. Because much research has been done on the relation between leisure and life satisfaction, and not much on social leisure in particular, the choice was made to focus on social leisure. This research explores the relation between life satisfaction and social leisure time. Three personal factors that have an influence on life satisfaction – age, subjective health, and level of education – are used as control variables, as these were also measured in the questionnaire used for this research. Previous research found that there are several factors that have an influence on life satisfaction, but this research only focuses on social leisure. Data from the LISS-panel was used to conduct a linear regression analysis. The analysis was done twice, once with people who either did or did not participate in social leisure activities, and once with only people who did participate in social leisure activities. Contrary to what previous research found, this research did not find evidence for the assumptions that the more social leisure activities someone participates in, the higher they score their life satisfaction and whether work situation has an influence on the relationship between life satisfaction and social leisure time.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Giardini, F. |
| Degree programme: | Sociology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Sociology] |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Sep 2022 09:27 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Sep 2022 09:27 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1409 |
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