LIFE SATISFACTION AND HAPPINESS WITH REGARD TO HUMAN CAPITAL AND RELIGIOSITY IN TURKEY

Abstract

This paper contributes to literature by investigating empirically the determinant factors on life satisfaction and happiness with respect to the quality of human capital and religiosity by using World Values Survey (WVS) data on Turkey. The key findings are that: (i) people with high skills and higher income tend to be unhappy and unsatisfied with their lives; (ii) cognitive workers who have higher educational attainment, who are employed, and who believe that their fate is shaped by themselves are more likely satisfied by their lives; whereas manual workers with high number of children and with higher skill level are less satisfied; (iii) individual and social religiosity have also a strong positive impact on happiness and life satisfaction for manual workers. Our findings also confirm the importance of a core set of demographic variables in estimating the individual happiness and life satisfaction such as gender, age, and marital status.

Keywords

• Life Satisfaction,Happiness,Human Capital,Religiosity,turkey

TÜRKİYE'DE BEŞERÎ SERMAYE VE DİNDARLIK İLE İLGİLİ YAŞAM MEMNUNİYETİ VE MUTLULUK

Abstract

Bu çalışma, Türkiye üzerine Dünya Değerleri Anketi (WVS) verilerini kullanarak, insan sermayesinin kalitesi ve dindarlık açısından yaşam memnuniyeti ve mutluluğuna ilişkin belirleyici faktörleri ampirik olarak araştırarak literatüre katkı sağlamaktadır. Temel bulgular şu şekilde özetlenebilir: (i) yüksek beceri (vasıflı) ve daha yüksek gelir sahibi insanlar mutsuz olmaya ve yaşamlarından memnuniyetsiz olma eğilimindedirler; (ii) yüksek öğrenim düzeyi olan, istihdam edilen ve kaderlerinin kendileri tarafından şekillendirildiğine inanan zihin gücüyle çalışan (bilişsel) işçiler hayatlarından daha memnundurlar, çok sayıda çocuk sahibi ve yüksek beceri düzeyine sahip emek (kol) gücüyle çalışan işçiler ise hayatlarından daha az memnundurlar; (iii) bireysel ve toplumsal dindarlık faktörü emek gücüyle çalışan işçilerin mutluluk ve yaşam doyumu üzerinde güçlü bir olumlu etkiye sahiptir. Bulgularımız bireysel mutluluk ve yaşam memnuniyetini tahmin etmede cinsiyet, yaş ve medeni durum gibi temel bir demografik değişken grubunun belirleyiciliğini de doğrulamaktadır.

Keywords

• Yaşam Memnuniyeti,Mutluluk,Beşerî Sermaye,Dindarlık,Türkiye

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