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The religion paradox: if religion makes people happy, why are so many dropping out?

TLDR
It is found that religiosity is associated with slightly higher SWB, and similarly so across four major world religions, and the benefits of religion for social relationships and SWB depend on the characteristics of the society.
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Needs and subjective well-being around the world.

  • L. TayE. Diener
  • Psychology
    Journal of personality and social psychology
  • 1 August 2011
TLDR
Societal need fulfillment predicted SWB, particularly for life evaluation, beyond individuals' fulfillment of their own needs, indicating the desirability of living in a flourishing society.
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Leisure and Subjective Well-Being: A Model of Psychological Mechanisms as Mediating Factors

Leisure is a key life domain and a core ingredient for overall well-being. Yet, within positive psychology, its definition and the psychological pathways by which it evokes happiness are elusive…
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Theory and Validity of Life Satisfaction Scales

National accounts of subjective well-being are being considered and adopted by nations. In order to be useful for policy deliberations, the measures of life satisfaction must be psychometrically…
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The development and validation of the Comprehensive Inventory of Thriving (CIT) and the Brief Inventory of Thriving (BIT).

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The relative importance of thriving compared to ill-being for health outcomes and the benefits of assessing individuals' positive functioning beyond ill- Being are showed and potential uses of the new measures are discussed.
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Findings All Psychologists Should Know From the New Science on Subjective Well-Being

Recent decades have seen rapid growth in the science of subjective well-being (SWB), with 14,000 publications a year now broaching the topic. The insights of this growing scholarly literature can be…
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Gender differences in narcissism: a meta-analytic review.

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Investigation of gender differences in three facets of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory revealed that observed gender differences were not explained by measurement bias and thus can be interpreted as true sex differences.
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Advances in subjective well-being research

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Findings from psychology and economics on subjective well-being across cultures are synthesized and identified to identify outstanding questions, priorities for future research and pathways to policy implementation.
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Leisure engagement and subjective well-being: A meta-analysis.

TLDR
Results are consistent with bottom-up models of SWB and suggest that the leisure domain is a potentially important target for enhancing SWB.
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Rising income and the subjective well-being of nations.

TLDR
It is found that changes in household income were associated with concomitant changes in life evaluations, positive feelings, and negative feelings, which suggest that income standards are now largely global, with little effect of national social comparison.
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