Subject This article deals with the issues of subjective well-being of scientific and teaching workers. Objectives The article aims to clarify predictors, determinants and factors of subjective well-being of scientific and teaching personnel. Methods The method of semi-structured in-depth interview was chosen as a research tool, including information, value judgment, and subjective assessment data blocks. Results The article identifies certain components of subjective well-being of scientific and teaching workers, namely, the affective and cognitive ones. The cognitive component is related to the value, quality of life, social institution, and profession judgment. Conclusions The analysis of in-depth interviews helps get closer to the formation of a profile of subjective well-being of academic and teaching staff.
Keywords: subjective well-being, academic, research and teaching staff, professional identity, in-depth interview
References:
Belyanin A. [Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith: Nobel Prize for the Feeling of Reality (Economic Analysis of Human Behavior)]. Voprosy Ekonomiki, 2003, no. 1, pp. 4–23. (In Russ.) URL: Link
Oswald A.J., Proto E., Sgroi D. Happiness and Productivity. Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, vol. 33, iss. 4, рр. 789–822. URL: Link
Ackerman N., Paolucci B. Objective and Subjective Income Adequacy: Their Relationship to Perceived Life Quality Measures. Social Indicators Research, 1983, vol. 12, iss. 1, pp. 25–48. URL: Link
Bradburn N.M. The Structure of Psychological Well-Being. Chicago, Aldine Publ., 1969, 318 p.
Strumpel B. Economic Well-Being as an Object of Social Measurement. In: Subjective Elements of Well-Being. Paris, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1974, pp. 75–122. URL: Link
Campbell A. Subjective Measures of Well-Being. American Psychologist, 1976, vol. 31, iss. 2, pp. 117–124. URL: Link
Diener E., Larsen R.J., Levine S., Emmons R.A. Frequency and Intensity: Dimensions Underlying Positive and Negative Affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1985, vol. 48, iss. 5, pp. 1253–1265. URL: Link
Diener E. Subjective Well-Being. Psychological Bulletin, 1984, vol. 95, iss. 3, pp. 542–575. URL: Link
Diener E., Suh E.M., Lucas R.E., Smith H.L. Subjective Well-Being: Three Decades of Progress. Psychological Bulletin, 1999, no. 125, iss. 2, pp. 276–302. URL: Link
Easterlin R.A. Building a Better Theory of Well-Being. In: Bruni L., Porta P.L. Economics and Happiness: Framing the Analysis. New York, Oxford University Press, 2005. URL: Link
Kahneman D., Deaton A. High Income Improves Evaluation of Life But not Emotional Well-Being. PNAS, 2010, vol. 107, iss. 38, pp. 16489–16493. URL: Link
Layard R. Measuring Subjective Well-Being. Science, 2010, vol. 327, iss. 5965, pp. 534–535. URL: Link
Diener E., Seligman M.E.P. Beyond Money: Toward an Economy of Well-Being. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 2004, vol. 5, iss. 1, pp. 1–31. URL: Link
Inglehart R., Welzel C. Agency, Values, and Well-Being: A Human Development Model. Social Indicators Research, 2010, vol. 97, iss. 1, рр. 43–63. URL: Link
Khashchenko V.A. [Subjective economic well-being and its measurement: constructing and validating a questionnaire]. Eksperimental'naya psikhologiya = Experimental Psychology, 2011, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 106–127. URL: Link (In Russ.)
Khashchenko V.A. [A model of subjective economical prosperity (Statement 1)]. Psikhologicheskii zhurnal = Psychological Journal, 2005, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 38–50. (In Russ.)
Kvale S. Issledovatel'skoe interv'yu [Interviews: An Introduction to Qualitative Research Interviewing]. Moscow, Smysl Publ., 2003, 301 p.
Akerlof G.A., Kranton R.E. Identity and the Economics of Organizations. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2005, vol. 19, iss. 1, pp. 9–32. URL: Link
Akerlof G.A., Shiller R.J. Spiritus Animalis, ili Kak chelovecheskaya psikhologiya upravlyaet ekonomikoi i pochemu eto vazhno dlya mirovogo kapitalizma [Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism]. Moscow, United Press Publ., 2010, 273 p.
Skachkova L.S., Shetinina D.P., Kriachko V.I. [Factors of subjective well-being of scientific and pedagogical workers: results of focus-groups]. Gosudarstvennoe i munitsipal'noe upravlenie. Uchenye zapiski SKAGS = State and Municipal Management. Scholar Notes, 2018, no. 4, pp. 138–146. URL: Link (In Russ.)