Rising income and the subjective well-being of nations
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...In a large and representative sample of nations and individuals, Diener, Tay, and Oishi (2013) found that rising income was associated with both positive affect and life satisfaction....
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...Furthermore, in explicit tests of social comparison effects, Diener, Sandvik, Seidlitz, and Diener (1993) did not find significant effects for social comparisons on SWB, and this was replicated by Diener, Tay, and Oishi (2013)....
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...This type of analysis is statistically optimal compared to traditional ordinary least squares (OLS) because it accounts for autocorrelations among country waves typically present in time series data (see Raudenbush & Bryk, 2002)....
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...Kahneman (1999) drew a critical distinction between two forms of SWB—global evaluative judgments and the ongoing momentary experience of feelings of well-being....
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...Richard Easterlin (1974) caused widespread debate with his suggestion that the economic growth of nations does not produce rising happiness in them....
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...Easterlin (1974) suggested that rising incomes are not associated with rising SWB because people use others in their society to evaluate their own incomes....
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...Richard Easterlin (1974) caused widespread debate with his suggestion that the economic growth of nations does not produce rising happiness in them....
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...The paradox posed by Easterlin continues to be debated, with Easterlin’s research supporting the idea (Easterlin, 1974; Easterlin & Sawangfa, 2010), other research not supporting it (Hagerty & Veenhoven, 2003; Inglehart, Foa, Peterson, & Welzel, 2008; Stevenson & Wolfers, 2008; Veenhoven & Hagerty,…...
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...Easterlin (1974) postulated that social comparisons within nations were responsible for a hedonic treadmill because people’s standards for incomes rise when the income of others in their society rise, and therefore there is no net gain in life satisfaction as average societal incomes increase....
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...Kahneman et al. (2004) found that higher income women enjoyed both work and leisure more than poorer women....
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