RT Journal Article
T1 The Relationship Between Subjective Well-Being and Self-Reported Health: Evidence from Ecuador.
A1 Acosta González, Hugo Nicolás
A1 Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David
K1 Encuestas sociales - Ecuador
K1 Saluid
K1 Salud mental
K1 Felicidad
AB This article addresses the relationship between self-reported health and subjective wellbeing in two dimensions: cognitive and emotional. Using the Household Living Conditions Survey 2014, this study represents the first approach for Ecuador and Latin America to test how the two dimensions of subjective well-being explain self-reported health. The cognitive dimension is measured by a happiness question in a lifeevaluative mode. Whereas the emotional dimension is proxied by an average of 16 psychosocial well-being questions that indicates how many, from the last 7 days, the person had a poor emotional state. We use descriptive statistics and a probit model with an instrumental variable approach to address the omitted variables bias and reverse causality. After controlling for socioeconomic, personal, regional, and health related variables, the results indicate that happiness or the cognitive dimension of well-being is the main predictor of self-reported health, quantitatively more important than having a recent illness (objective health measure), habits (sport) or health care (health importance). Furthermore, more days in a negative emotional state is associated with worse self-reported health.
PB Springer
YR 2020
FD 2020-06-09
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39328
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39328
LA eng
NO Acosta-González, H.N., Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, O.D. The Relationship Between Subjective Well-Being and Self-Reported Health: Evidence from Ecuador. Applied Research Quality Life 16, 1961–1981 (2021)
NO https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/11771
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026