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The Recent Dangers for European Happiness: Is Homeostatic Resilience Sufficient?
In the literature on life satisfaction the author came across the hypothesis that happiness oscillates around a set point given by nurture and...
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Subjective Happiness in Behavioral Contracts
This paper studies how payment schemes influence subjective happiness. Self-adaptation and interpersonal comparisons are internal and external...
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To Evaluate the Age–Happiness Relationship, Look Beyond Statistical Significance
The persistent contentiousness of research on the age–happiness relationship is puzzling; it should be possible to gain clarity and consensus about...
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One More Time, Does Money Buy Happiness?
This paper integrates multiple positions on the relationship between money and well-being, commonly referred to as happiness. An aggregation of prior...
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Essentializing Humor and Implications for Pursuing Happiness
To what extent an individual holds an essentialist belief about a sense of humor may influence their use of humor and subsequently subjective...
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Does Being Globalized Matter for Happiness in African Countries?
Nowadays globalization seems to be an irresistible phenomenon that affects all countries around the world, including developed and develo**...
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Running on the Hedonic Treadmill: A Dynamical Model of Happiness Based on an Approach–Avoidance Framework
Describing the dynamical nature of happiness is crucial for understanding why individuals are constantly running on a hedonic treadmill around set...
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Childhood Socioeconomic Status Shapes Beliefs About Hedonic Versus Eudaimonic Happiness: A Life History Approach
Many have pondered whether happiness is chiefly made of positive feelings and joy (hedonism) or by acquiring meaning via self-actualization...
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The Sources of Happiness in Preadolescence and Adolescence: A Multi-Method and Multi-Informant Perspective
Research on happiness in preadolescence and adolescence has been limited regarding the sources of happiness. The present study aims to explore such...
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Analysis of Factors Influencing Happiness Level Using the MLP Neural Network Analysis Method: The Case of Korea
The aim of this study is to analyse the factors affecting the overall happiness level of Korean residents using neural network analysis, and to...
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Economic Performance, Happiness, and Sustainable Development in OECD Countries
Economic progress has pushed human beings to pay greater attention on their happiness, and various indicators to measure it have been created with...
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The Impact of Housing Demolition on Residents’ Happiness: Empirical Evidence from China
The subjective welfare effect of housing demolition has not received enough attention in existing literature, even though more than 100 million...
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Predictors of Subjective Health Among Spouses and Its Relations With Happiness: A Multilevel Analysis in a Nationwide Survey in Turkey
The current study aims to examine predictors of subjective health, including its relation with happiness, at the individual and family levels. For...
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The Development of Vehicle Ownership and Urban Happiness in China
Does car ownership matter for urban well-being and planning? By using data from the China Household Finance Survey, we test how a variety of factors,...
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Happiness, Space and Place: Community Area Clustering and Spillovers of Life Satisfaction in Canada
There has been a rapidly growing number of studies of the geographical aspects of happiness and well-being. Many of these studies have been...
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Save Today for a Happier Tomorrow: Associations Between Happiness and Financial Preparation in Japan
Although earlier studies suggest improvement in relative income affects subjective well-being, literature about how savings and investing relate to...
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Conceptualizations of Happiness and Vegetarianism: Empirical Evidence from University Students in Spain
Vegetarianism improves human and planetary health in addition to animal welfare. Motivations for meat-reduced diets include health-related and...
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Seasonality and the female happiness paradox
Most studies tracking wellbeing do not collect data across all the months in a year. This leads to error in estimating gender differences in...
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Role of Social Capital in Determining Happiness and Life Satisfaction: Mediation of Self-reported Health Using Path Analysis
This study links social capital with people’s health and well-being using data from the seventh wave of the World Value Survey, logistic regression,...
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Median Voters’ Happiness Cycles in the United States Along the Nation’s Principal Political Fault Line
Data from the General Social Survey are used to examine the political polarization in the United States, by examining presidential periods from 1972...
