Life goals and well-being: Towards a positive psychology of human striving

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Reported Subjective Well-Being: A Challenge for Economic Theory and Economic Policy (2003, background): “There is substantial evidence that more materialistic and extrinsically oriented people report higher aspirations and lower subjective well-being (Kasser and Ryan 2001, Solberg et al. in press).”
Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself? (2007, unknown): “The research in psychology on this question concludes that ‘All Goals Are Not Created Equal’ (Ryan et al., 1996), meaning that people with more materialistic goals are less happy than people who pursue intrinsic life goals (see e.g. Kasser and Ryan, 2001).”
Adolescents’ Worries about Environmental Risks: Subjective Well-being, Values, and Existential Dimensions (2005, methodology): “The fact that the two other-oriented value orientations (i.e., altruistic and biospheric values) were strong factors in explaining environmental worry supports the results of previous studies concerning macrosocial worry and values (Boehnke et al. 1998b, 2001; Schwartz et al. 2000).”