Most People are Pretty Happy, but There is Cultural Variation: The Inughuit, The Amish, and The Maasai

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How universal is happiness (2008, background): “Questions on lifesatisfaction are also easily answered in non-modern societies, such as the Inughuit, the Amish, and the Maasai (Biswas-Diener et al., 2005).”
Three Ways to Be Happy: Pleasure, Engagement, and Meaning—Findings from Australian and US Samples (2009, background): “generally indicate that culture can influence predictors and levels of subjective well-being (Biswas-Diener et al. 2005; Diener et al. 2003).”
The Impact of Culture on the Individual Subjective Well-Being of the Italian Population: An Exploratory Study (2011, background): “Biswas-Diener et al. (2005) provide an illuminating account of inter-cultural differences across samples of individuals coming from relatively small and simple societies, explaining how different cultural environments may elicit different responses on different dimensions and scales.”
Beyond the hedonic treadmill: revising the adaptation theory of well-being. (2006, background): “Similarly, Biswas-Diener, Vittersø, and Diener (2005) found that even in such diverse populations as the Amish, African Maasai, and Greenlandic Inughuit, most people are above neutral in well-being.”