دورية أكاديمية
Life Satisfaction and Incumbent Voting: Examining the Mediating Effect of Trust in Government.
العنوان: | Life Satisfaction and Incumbent Voting: Examining the Mediating Effect of Trust in Government. |
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المؤلفون: | Ng JWJ; Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, School of Business, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia., Vaithilingam S; Institute of Global Strategy and Competitiveness, Sunway University Business School, Sunway University, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia., Lee GHY; Department of Economics, School of Business, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia., Rangel GJ; Department of Finance, School of Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Gelugor, Malaysia. |
المصدر: | Journal of happiness studies [J Happiness Stud] 2022; Vol. 23 (6), pp. 2947-2967. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Apr 28. |
نوع المنشور: | Journal Article |
اللغة: | English |
بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Country of Publication: Netherlands NLM ID: 100909039 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 1389-4978 (Print) Linking ISSN: 13894978 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Happiness Stud Subsets: PubMed not MEDLINE |
أسماء مطبوعة: | Original Publication: Dordrecht; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2000- |
مستخلص: | An emerging body of evidence suggests a causal relationship between wellbeing and incumbent voting. However, the evidence is primarily founded upon established democracies with regular turnovers of power. Moreover, the mechanism underlying this relationship is still relatively unknown. Using the intricacies of the Malaysian political context and Malaysian data from the seventh wave of the World Values Survey (WVS), this study examines the mediating role of trust in government to explain the relationship between life satisfaction and incumbent voting. Notably, the Malaysian WVS was concluded two weeks before Malaysia's fourteenth general election (GE14), which witnessed the end of the ruling coalition's six-decade hold on power since independence and subsequently ushered in the country's first-ever peaceful transfer of power. The empirical analysis indicated that the mediating role of trust in the relationship between life satisfaction and incumbent voting is supported. Further empirical analysis also showed that the mediating effect of trust was unique to the GE14 context compared to GE13, thus providing a better understanding of the role trust plays in the outcome of the election. The results provide valuable insights and implications in political science, especially for a nation emerging from its authoritarian state. Competing Interests: Conflict of interestThe authors declared that they have no conflict of interest. (© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2022.) |
فهرسة مساهمة: | Keywords: Incumbent voting; Malaysian general elections; Subjective wellbeing; Trust in government |
تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20220504 Latest Revision: 20220811 |
رمز التحديث: | 20221213 |
مُعرف محوري في PubMed: | PMC9047582 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10902-022-00536-z |
PMID: | 35505838 |
قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
تدمد: | 1389-4978 |
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DOI: | 10.1007/s10902-022-00536-z |