标题：Analysis of the Causal Relationships among Factors Affecting Community Well-Being for Living Based on Systems Thinking: The Cases of Korean Local Communities
摘要：Leading classical economists argue that an increase in income is one of the most important factors affecting the increasing of happiness. However, Easterlin (1974) argues that from a whole-society point of view, an increase in national income is not proportional to an increase in happiness. Following Easterlin’s proposition, a great deal of research has been carried out investigating the factors associated with happiness over a short time-period. As a result of research on happiness conducted from a sociological, economic and public administration point of view, similar terms to happiness, such as ‘well-being’, ‘quality of life’ and ‘life satisfaction’, have been generated. Although the factors which these terms have primarily emphasized have been different, in the real world it is not easy to differentiate between them. Of these similar terms, this paper addresses ‘community well-being’, which currently occupies the attention of a number of scholars but which has nevertheless not been discussed in depth. In so doing it attempts to identify the causal structure of the factors associated with community well-being and to put forward a number of theoretical and policy-related suggestions for increasing it.
