Sustainable well-being: an empirical exploration on human needs and human interdependency
This study is a part of an ongoing research to discover subjective indicators of sustainable well-being for Malaysia. Initial findings recognized two important notions of subjective measures of sustainable well-being. The first notion suggested that sustainable well-being manifested in human inte...
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Malaysian Institute of Planners
2016
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/52560/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/52560/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/52560/1/52560_sustainable%20well-being.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/52560/7/52560_Sustainable%20well-being_Scopus.pdf |
| Summary: | This study is a part of an ongoing research to discover subjective indicators of
sustainable well-being for Malaysia. Initial findings recognized two important
notions of subjective measures of sustainable well-being. The first notion
suggested that sustainable well-being manifested in human interdependency. The
second notion suggested that human interdependency is attained when human
needs are fulfilled. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs was adopted to indicate the
stages and examples of each needs. There were eight stages of human needs
which were adapted into 24 common human needs substituted under eight
components of three human needs dimensions. The dimensions were (i) basic
necessities, (ii) complimentary needs, and (iii) desired opportunities. It was
hypothesized that human needs influence the level of human interdependency.
This paper delivers an empirical analysis testing the effects of human needs on
human interdependency. The study intends to determine the influence of human
needs on human interdependency. Questionnaire survey was conducted and 894
reliable samples were gathered. 192 Independent Sample T-Tests were conducted
to determine statistical difference in levels of eight components of human
interdependency, between respondents who claimed difficult and respondents
who claimed easy to attain 24 human needs in the past year. There were
statistically significant differences in most of the components of human
interdependency between groups of 24 human needs. The empirical study
conducted in the central regions of a developing and multicultural country,
Malaysia, is a useful reference to subjective well-being studies piloted in areas of
similar characteristics. |
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