caa a22 4500 467917043 CHVBK 20180406152905.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11205-005-1604-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11205-005-1604-9 Subjective Well-Being, Societal Condition and Social Policy - The Case Study of a Rich Chinese Society [Elektronische Daten] [Chack Wong, Ka Wong, Bong Mok] The article looks at whether or not social policy and other societal-condition variables contribute to the subjective well-being of life satisfaction. It firstly argues that social policy needs to pay more attention to the study of subjective well-being. Then, it reviews the literature and finds that people in rich societies generally have higher levels of life satisfaction. But the findings of a social survey on the level of and variance in life satisfaction in a rich Chinese society reveal the contrary. The empirical data reflects a life satisfaction pattern along strong income and class lines. It also confirms that social policy and other societal-condition variables have different degrees of impact on life satisfaction. At last, implications of the findings for social policy are discussed. Springer, 2006 attitude study nationallicence life satisfaction nationallicence social policy nationallicence subjective well-being nationallicence welfare indicators nationallicence Wong Chack Social Work Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong aut Wong Ka Social Work Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong aut Mok Bong Social Work Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong aut Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 78/3(2006-09-01), 405-428 0303-8300 78:3<405 2006 78 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-1604-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-1604-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wong Chack Social Work Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wong Ka Social Work Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mok Bong Social Work Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 78/3(2006-09-01), 405-428 0303-8300 78:3<405 2006 78 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer