| Author: | Delhey, J. Kohler, U. |
| Title: | From nationally bounded to pan-European inequalities? On the importance of foreign countries as reference groups |
| Journal: | European sociological review
2006 : APR, VOL. 22:2, p. 125-140 |
| Index terms: | inequality sociology European Union |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper links the growing debate about national or European Union (EU)-wide approaches to reference group theory, investigating whether comparisons with foreign countries influence levels of individual life satisfaction (here as: lf-sat) . The results indicate that, on the one hand, more people can be assumed to have a national frame of reference than a broader international one. On the other hand, among those having an idea of how average people in other countries live, cross-border comparisons certainly influence people's lf-sat. |
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