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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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01 Jan 1845
TL;DR: In the month of August, 1841, I attended an antislavery convention in Nantucket, at which it was my happiness to become acquainted with FREDERICK DOUGLASS, the writer of the following Narrative.
Abstract: In the month of August, 1841, I attended an antislavery convention in Nantucket, at which it was my happiness to become acquainted with FREDERICK DOUGLASS, the writer of the following Narrative. He was a stranger to nearly every member of that body; but, having recently made his escape from the southern prison-house of bondage, and feeling his curiosity excited to ascertain the principles and measures of the abolitionists,--of whom he had heard a somewhat vague description while he was a slave,--he was induced to give his attendance, on the occasion alluded to, though at that time a resident in New Bedford.

364 citations

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TL;DR: The paradox of women's declining relative wellbeing is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well-being, and is pervasive across demographic groups and industrialized countries as mentioned in this paper, showing that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men.
Abstract: By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women’s declining relative wellbeing is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well-being, and is pervasive across demographic groups and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging—one with higher subjective well-being for men.

363 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a unique data set from Denmark that includes monozygotic (MZ i.e. identical) twins to estimate the contributions of partnerships and fertility to subjective well-being.
Abstract: In this study we overcome several limitations of earlier studies on partnership formation childbearing and happiness. We estimate the contributions of partnerships and fertility to subjective well-being—or “happiness”— using a unique data set from Denmark that includes monozygotic (MZ i.e. identical) twins. These twins have been asked in a recent survey about their socioeconomic and demographic background as well as their subjective wellbeing. The specific features of our data allow us to control for unobserved endowments (e.g. preferences and capabilities due to genetic dispositions family background neighborhood in which the twins grew up) that affect marriage/fertility behavior and happiness; and conditional on our model these estimates reveal the causal contributions of marriage and fertility to individuals’ subjective well-being. Our estimates permit us to explore a basic tenet of economic or rational-choice fertility models that may be important in understanding continued partnership formation and childbearing in low-fertility contexts. At the same time they permit an assessment of the set-point theory of happiness that has increasing currency in the psychological literature at least as it pertains empirically to partnership formation and childbearing. (excerpt)

361 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed the overlap between nature relatedness and other subjective connections (e.g., with friends or country) and examined these connections as a possible confound in explaining the link between nature-relatedness and happiness.
Abstract: Subjective connection with nature, or nature relatedness, is similar to other environmental worldview measures in predicting sustainable attitudes and behaviors, yet is unique in predicting happiness. In two studies, the authors assessed the overlap between nature relatedness and other subjective connections (e.g., with friends or country) and examined these connections as a possible confound in explaining the link between nature relatedness and happiness. Study 1 adapted a measure of general connectedness and administered it to student (n = 331) and community (n = 415) samples along with multiple nature relatedness and happiness indicators. Study 2 examined more established measures of subjective connections in another community sample (n = 204). General connectedness predicted happiness well, yet nature relatedness remained a significant distinct predictor of many happiness indicators, even after controlling for other connections. Results support the notion that nature relatedness could be a path to human happiness and environmental sustainability, though confirming this causal direction requires additional research.

360 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