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Needs and subjective well-being around the world.
Across a sample of 123 countries, we examined the association between the fulfillment of needs and subjective well-being (SWB), including life evaluation, positive feelings, and negative feelings.… Expand
The religion paradox: if religion makes people happy, why are so many dropping out?
- E. Diener, L. Tay, D. Myers
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of personality and social psychology
- 1 August 2011
As we estimate here, 68% of human beings--4.6 billion people--would say that religion is important in their daily lives. Past studies have found that the religious, on average, have higher subjective… Expand
Theory and Validity of Life Satisfaction Scales
- E. Diener, R. Inglehart, L. Tay
- Psychology
- 10 January 2013
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… Expand
Leisure and Subjective Well-Being: A Model of Psychological Mechanisms as Mediating Factors
- D. B. Newman, L. Tay, E. Diener
- Psychology
- 1 June 2014
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… Expand
Gender differences in narcissism: a meta-analytic review.
- Emily J. Grijalva, D. Newman, +4 authors Taiyi Yan
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological bulletin
- 1 March 2015
Despite the widely held belief that men are more narcissistic than women, there has been no systematic review to establish the magnitude, variability across measures and settings, and stability over… Expand
Findings All Psychologists Should Know From the New Science on Subjective Well-Being
- E. Diener, Samantha J. Heintzelman, +4 authors S. Oishi
- Psychology
- 1 May 2017
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… Expand
Rising income and the subjective well-being of nations.
- E. Diener, L. Tay, S. Oishi
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of personality and social psychology
- 1 February 2013
We explored whether rising income in nations is associated with increasing subjective well-being (SWB), with several advances over earlier work. Our methods are improved in that across time, the same… Expand
Leisure engagement and subjective well-being: A meta-analysis.
- L. Kuykendall, L. Tay, V. Ng
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological bulletin
- 19 January 2015
Numerous studies show a link between leisure engagement and subjective well-being (SWB). Drawing on common experiential features of leisure, psychological need theories, and bottom-up models of SWB,… Expand
Advances in subjective well-being research
The empirical science of subjective well-being, popularly referred to as happiness or satisfaction, has grown enormously in the past decade. In this Review, we selectively highlight and summarize key… Expand
Purpose, Mood, and Pleasure in Predicting Satisfaction Judgments
- E. Diener, F. Fujita, L. Tay, R. Biswas-Diener
- Psychology
- 1 February 2012
We examined the extent to which satisfaction with life, with one’s self, and with one’s day are predicted by pleasure, purpose in life, interest, and mood. In a sample of 222 college students we… Expand