Environmental Quality and Life Satisfaction: Subjective Versus Objective Measures of Air Quality

• Published in: Social indicators research Vol. 124; no. 2; pp. 599 - 616
• Main Authors: Liao, Pei-shan, Shaw, Daigee, Lin, Yih-ming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer 01.11.2015; Springer Netherlands; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Air pollution; Air quality; Airports; Anniversaries; Climate change; Economic development; Environmental quality; Happiness; Human Geography; Individual Characteristics; Interpersonal Relationship; Life Satisfaction; Microeconomics; Nitrogen dioxide; Noise; Outdoor air quality; Perceptions; Pollutants; Pollution; Pollution index; Psychological Characteristics; Public Health; Quality of Life Research; Social change; Social research; Social Sciences; Sociodemographics; Sociology; Studies; Variables; Taiwan; ISEW, Taiwan; Individual well-being; Micro data; Perceived air quality; PSI

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of objective air quality on individual life satisfaction (LS) through the moderating effect of perceived air quality on the latter. Unlike previous studies, we incorporates both of the data from the 2010 Taiwan Social Change Survey and the mo...