Open AccessRussians’ interpretation of happiness and its determinants: results of the survey
Author(s) -
Н П Нарбут,
Ирина Троцук
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
žurnal belorusskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. sociologiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-7294
pISSN - 2521-6821
DOI - 10.33581/2521-6821-2021-4-82-96
Subject(s) - happiness , ranking (information retrieval) , interpretation (philosophy) , psychology , social psychology , general social survey , survey data collection , covid-19 , discipline , sociology , social science , computer science , medicine , statistics , mathematics , disease , pathology , machine learning , infectious disease (medical specialty) , programming language
The article presents the results of the representative all-Russian online survey conducted in the late 2020 – early 2021, i. e., in the period defined today by the scientific, authorities and everyday discourses as pre-covid-19 or pre-pandemic. At that time, and the situation has not changed, rankings became extremely popular, including the ranking of countries by the level of happiness, despite the fact that the very word «happiness» is ambiguous, full of contradictory connotations and difficult to define conceptually and empirically even within the disciplinary framework of specific disciplines, including sociology. The article presents the results of the survey (dominant interpretations of happiness, self-estimates in terms of happiness, etc.) and methodological conclusions (pressure of social desirability, gender and generational measurements of happiness and its definitions) from the online survey conducted with the authors questionnaire which allowed respondents to assess their level of happiness and to express their opinion on how it should be defined and what can influence it (a combination of direct and indirect questions).