Personal Income and Subjective Well-being: A Review

By Robert Cummins. 2000

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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Individualism/Collectivism and Cultures of Happiness: A Theoretical Conjecture on the Relationship between Consumption, Culture and Subjective Well-Being at the National Level (2002, background): “When we look at the relationship between one’s overall level of consumption and SWB, research confirms that poverty is an unhappy condition (Ahuvia and Freedman, 1998; Cummins, 2000; Veenhoven, 1991).”
The relationship between pay and job satisfaction: A meta-analysis of the literature (2010, unknown): “are happier than the average American (Diener, Horwitz, & Emmons, 1985), and the average individual is happier than the very poor (Cummins, 2000).”
The Silver Lining of Materialism: The Impact of Luxury Consumption on Subjective Well-Being (2012, background): “…with life in general or with specific life domains and of an affective aspect measured as the frequency of one’s pleasant and unpleasant emotional experiences (Andrews and Withey 1976; Biswas-Diener et al. 2004; Cummins 2000; Diener et al. 1985; Watson et al. 1988; Zhong and Mitchell 2010).”
The Biophilia Hypothesis and Life in the 21st Century: Increasing Mental Health or Increasing Pathology? (2000, unknown): “Support for the positive influence on well-being of a lifestyle more consistent with our human ancestry is indicated by the higher than normative levels of life satisfaction (see Cummins, 2000) reported by participants in Jacobs and Brinkerhoff’s work.”
Does Happiness Pay? An Exploration Based on Panel Data from Russia (2004, unknown): “A contrasting view, in a study by psychologist Bob Cummins (2000), starts from the assumption that subjective well-being is held within a narrow range determined by personality and that it then is influenced by a number of environmental factors, including income.”
A Demonstration of Set-Points for Subjective Wellbeing (2014, background): “Cummins (2000) continues: “The primary system involves two factors of personality that provide a genetically determined range for subjective QOL [Quality Of Life]”.”
Measuring subjective well-being for public policy (2011, background): “It is possible that domain satisfaction measures may have good reliability because they are relatively straightforward judgements that can be aggregated to generate overall satisfaction (Peasgood, 2008; Cummins, 2000).”
Effects of positive interventions and orientations to happiness on subjective well-being (2011, background): “It has been found that higher education and income levels are related to higher SWB (Cummins, 2000).”
''Money worlds'' and well-being: An integration of money dispositions, materialism and price-related behavior (2002, background): “If it is not money that brings happiness, what does? We have already spoken of personality (Cummins, 2000) and culture (e.”
Quality of Life in Adolescence: The Role of Perceived Control, Parenting Style, and Social Support (2000, background): “One of the foremost contenders in this regard is the sense of personal control (Cummins, 2000; Cummins & Nistico, 2000).”
How Education Enhances Happiness: Comparison of Mediating Factors in Four East Asian Countries (2012, background): “Does money buy happiness? Studies using data from various countries consistently show that higher income is positively associated with greater happiness or better subjective well-being, at least within countries at the individual level (Blanchflower and Oswald 2004; Yang 2008; Headey et al. 2008; Cu”
Personal Well-being in Urban China (2009, background): “However, as Cummins (2000) noted, for those who are experiencing potentially stressful circumstances undergone substantial change.”