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This chapter studies the determinants of subjective well-being with a particular focus on the situation in a context of poverty; the chapter also studies how subjective well-being relates to perceived causes of poverty, class identification, and social mobility. This reflection is based upon the assumption that subjective well-being influences people’s socio-economic situation as well as their perception about the causes of poverty. In addition, the relationship between objective living conditions and subjective well-being may be mediated by those factors which individuals perceive as causes of poverty and by the socioeconomic class they presume they belong to.
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Palomar Lever, J., Victorio Estrada, A. (2016). Psychological and Social Determinants of Subjective Well-Being in Mexico: Poverty, Class Identification and Social Mobility. In: Rojas, M. (eds) Handbook of Happiness Research in Latin America. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7203-7_22
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