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Happiness

About: Happiness is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 22093 publications have been published within this topic receiving 728411 citations. The topic is also known as: joy & happy.


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TL;DR: The authors argue that the existence of a generalized "pet effect" on human mental and physical health is at present not a fact but an unsubstantiated hypothesis and discuss some reasons why studies of the effects of pets on people have produced conflicting results.
Abstract: Because of extensive media coverage, it is now widely believed that pets enhance their owners’ health, sense of psychological well-being, and longevity. But while some researchers have reported that positive effects accrue from interacting with animals, others have found that the health and happiness of pet owners is no better, and in some cases worse, than that of non–pet owners. I discuss some reasons why studies of the effects of pets on people have produced conflicting results, and I argue that the existence of a generalized “pet effect” on human mental and physical health is at present not a fact but an unsubstantiated hypothesis.

382 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the higher order factor structure of subjective and psychological well-being in a series of large UK samples was examined and it was shown that subjective wellbeing was loaded separately onto two independent but related factors, consistent with previous research.

381 citations

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TL;DR: This paper investigated the role of relational goods for subjective well-being and found that relational goods have a significant effect on life satisfaction, while television viewing plays a key role in crowding-out relationality.
Abstract: This paper investigates the role of relational goods for subjective well-being. Using a large sample of individuals from the World Values Survey, we find that relational goods have a significant effect on life satisfaction, while television viewing plays a key role in crowding-out relationality. Both results are robust to the use of alternative indicators of relationality and to instrumental variable estimation to deal with possible simultaneity. The findings suggest that the relational treadmill can provide an additional explanation of the income–happiness paradox: the effect of higher income on happiness is offset by lower consumption of relational goods, with television playing a significant role in explaining underconsumption of relationality.

381 citations

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TL;DR: The quality of marital relationships continues to be the most widely studied topic in the field as discussed by the authors, and there is a growing interest in dyads as a more general form of relationship.
Abstract: The quality of marital relationships continues to be the most widely studied topic in the field. Trends during the 1970s in research on marital quality and related concepts (happiness, satisfaction, adjustment, etc.) are summarized. The decade saw more husbands in samples, more attention to couples and joint assessment of husbands and wives, use of observational data collection techniques, greater attention to methodological and measurement issues, more use of multivariate statistics, greater awareness of issues pertaining to cross-sectional designs, fewer biases in the portrayal of male/female roles, attempts to build theory and synthesize the literature, growing interest in "dyads" as a more general form of marital relationships, and more research which is international in scope. Research, methodological, and theoretical contributions are evaluated, and some recommendations are made for the decade ahead.

380 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the hypothesis that happiness is due to the greater participation of extraverts in social activities and found that about half of the greater happiness of the extraverts can be explained by their greater participation in social activity.

380 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20245
20231,873
20224,089
20211,232
20201,463
20191,352