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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: Experiential purchases are evaluated more on their own terms and evoke fewer social comparisons than material purchases as mentioned in this paper, and they provide greater satisfaction and happiness than material goods, while they also enhance social relations more readily and effectively than material items.
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TL;DR: Results suggest that weekly public religious activity was significantly associated with better health and well-being, and this relationship was stronger for men than women and was influenced by denominational affiliation.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors survey the evidence on subjective well-being and show that human wellbeing also affects outcomes of interest such as health, income, and social behavior, with influence running in both directions.
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to survey the “hard” evidence on the effects of subjective well-being. In doing so, we complement the evidence on the determinants of well-being by showing that human well-being also affects outcomes of interest such as health, income, and social behavior. Generally, we observe a dynamic relationship between happiness and other important aspects of our lives, with influence running in both directions. We also discuss the moderating, mediating, and evolutionary dynamics of human well-being.
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TL;DR: The happiness-health relationship from an economics perspective is reviewed, highlighting the role of adaptation and how happiness surveys can-and cannot-inform public health policy.
Abstract: This paper reviews the happiness-health relationship from an economics perspective, highlighting the role of adaptation People’s expectations for health standards influence their reported health and associated happiness, a finding that roughly mirrors the Easterlin paradox in income and happiness Research on unhappiness and obesity shows that norms and stigma vary a great deal across countries and cohorts, mediating the related well-being costs Better understanding this variance and its effects on incentives for addressing the condition is important to policy design More generally, the paper discusses how happiness surveys can—and cannot—inform public health policy
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TL;DR: It was found that marital happiness trajectory membership was associated with subsequent changes in both life happiness and depressive symptoms, and initial levels of life happiness were strongly associated with membership in the marital happiness trajectories and with various demographic and attitude-related control variables.
Abstract: Using data from six waves of the Study of Marital Instability over the Life Course (N = 1,998), we conducted a latent class analysis to test for distinct marital happiness trajectories. We found three distinct marital happiness trajectories: low, middle, and high happiness. Initial levels of life happiness were strongly associated with membership in the marital happiness trajectories and with various demographic and attitude-related control variables. Using fixed effects regression with time-varying covariates, we also found that marital happiness trajectory membership was associated with subsequent changes in both life happiness and depressive symptoms. All respondents experienced a decrease in life happiness between Wave 1 and the end of their observed time in their marriage, but respondents in the high marital happiness trajectory experienced the smallest decline. Respondents in both the high and middle marital happiness trajectories also experienced a decline in depressive symptoms across time. Intervention and policy implications are discussed.
263 citations