Economic freedom and life satisfaction: A moderated mediation model with individual autonomy and national culture

Graafland, Johan

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dc.contributor.author	Graafland, Johan	de
dc.date.accessioned	2024-10-21T10:00:48Z
dc.date.available	2024-10-21T10:00:48Z
dc.date.issued	2023	de
dc.identifier.issn	0176-2680	de
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/97227
dc.description.abstract	Previous research has shown that economic freedom is associated with life satisfaction. Nonetheless, how economic freedom affects life satisfaction remains relatively unexplored. Test results on a sample of 238,944 observations from 78 countries in the period from 1990 to 2020 show that individual autonomy is a possible channel (so-called mediator): whereas economic freedom is found to foster individual autonomy, individual autonomy in turn increases life satisfaction. The relationship between economic freedom and individual autonomy particularly concerns two subdimensions of economic freedom: sound money and freedom to trade internationally. The test results show that the indirect effect of economic freedom on life satisfaction through individual autonomy is significant and explains 18% of the total relationship between economic freedom and life satisfaction. Furthermore, we find that the strength of the relationship between individual autonomy and life satisfaction increases with individualism, one of Hofstede's dimensions of national culture (i.e., individualism is a moderator). This suggests a so-called moderated mediation model, in which the relationship between economic freedom and life satisfaction is mediated by individual autonomy and moderated by individualism.	de
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Wirtschaft	de
dc.subject.ddc	Economics	en
dc.subject.other	Economic freedom; Individual autonomy; Moderated mediation; National culture; WVS/EVS	de
dc.title	Economic freedom and life satisfaction: A moderated mediation model with individual autonomy and national culture	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.source.journal	European Journal of Political Economy
dc.source.volume	79	de
dc.publisher.country	NLD	de
dc.subject.classoz	Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Wirtschaftswissenschaften	de
dc.subject.classoz	Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Economics	en
dc.subject.classoz	Wirtschaftspolitik	de
dc.subject.classoz	Economic Policy	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Wirtschaft	de
dc.subject.thesoz	economy	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Freiheit	de
dc.subject.thesoz	freedom	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Autonomie	de
dc.subject.thesoz	autonomy	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Lebenszufriedenheit	de
dc.subject.thesoz	satisfaction with life	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Individualität	de
dc.subject.thesoz	individuality	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Individualismus	de
dc.subject.thesoz	individualism	en
dc.subject.thesoz	kulturelle Faktoren	de
dc.subject.thesoz	cultural factors	en
dc.subject.thesoz	sozioökonomische Faktoren	de
dc.subject.thesoz	socioeconomic factors	en
dc.subject.thesoz	EVS	de
dc.subject.thesoz	EVS	en
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-97227-7
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0	en
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dc.type.stock	article	de
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dc.type.document	journal article	en
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dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2023.102448	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Veröffentlichungsversion	de
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