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The indicators themselves are measures of the underlying concepts of economic security, social cohesion, social integration and empowerment. We have already demonstrated that life satisfaction in the contexts as varied as the Commonwealth of Independent States and London is influenced by economic security, social cohesion, social integration and empowerment (Abbott and Sapsford 2006; Abbott 2007; Abbott and Wallace 2011). More recently, we have derived a model from social quality and used it to examine influences on life satisfaction in the EU 27.
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The highest levels of satisfaction are found in Northern Europe with the highest of all in Scandinavia and the lowest levels in East and Central Europe with Bulgaria having noticeable the lowest. Portugal, Greece and Italy have much lower levels of satisfaction than the other EU 15 countries, amongst the lowest in Europe (although Italy’s level is somewhat lower than might be expected from other surveys, as is Austria’s). 15) has a level of general satisfaction that places it with the Northwestern European countries, but it is the exception amongst the post-communist countries.
