it is plausible that a mismatch could exist between aspirations understood as the level of wellbeing that people desire and expectations of wellbeing in terms of the socioeconomic position that individuals actually hope to achieve this would be the result of an evaluation of their personal capacities and the opportunities provided to them by the social structure in the case of expectations the data are consistent with information that shows that these vary according to the individual s position in the social structure eclac a nonetheless this does not mean that the association between welfare expectations and the household s economic situation has the properties of a direct relation