Happiness, Materialism, and Religious Experience in the US AND SINGAPORE

By William R. Swinyard, A. Kau, Hui-Yin Phua. 2001

218 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Social Psychology

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In Health

1. Russell Smyth *
2. Qingguo Zhai
3. I. Nielsen
4. M. Holder
5. B. Coleman
6. Bernd Hayo
7. Mario Pandelaere
8. J. Nawijn

In Social Psychology

1. M. Holder
2. Judith M. Wallace
3. Russell Smyth *
4. B. Coleman
5. Qingguo Zhai
6. I. Nielsen
7. B. Tierney
8. P. Brown

Citations in the corpus

• Happiness in transition: An empirical study on Eastern Europe (2007, background): “Swinyard et al. (2001) find that religious people are happier in both the US and Singapore.”
• Subjective Well-Being of China’s Off-Farm Migrants (2010, background): “, World Values Survey 2001) and Cheung and Leung (2004, 2008) or life domains (Le and Dou 2006; Keng and Hooi 1995; Swinyard et al. 2001).”
• Spirituality, Religiousness, and Happiness in Children Aged 8–12 Years (2010, methodology): “Single-item measures of happiness are reliable, valid, and commonly used (Abdel-Khalek 2006; Harry 1976; Stull 1988; Swinyard et al. 2001).”
• Happiness Through Vacationing: Just a Temporary Boost or Long-Term Benefits? (2011, background): “Furthermore, individuals can try to change their state of mind, through cultivating optimism (Seligman 1990) or avoiding social comparisons (Lyubomirksy 2008; Swinyard et al. 2001).”
• The Silver Lining of Materialism: The Impact of Luxury Consumption on Subjective Well-Being (2012, background): “materialists are less satisfied with life as a whole and with specific aspects in life, such as standard of living or family life (Swinyard et al. 2001).”
• Religion and subjective well-being among the elderly in China (2009, background): “Swinyard et al. (2001) find that religious participation is among the most deterministic predictors of subjective well-being in Singapore.5 Indeed, Witter et al. (1985) conduct a meta-analysis of 28 previous studies to find that religious belief and religious participation account for between 2%…”