Explaining Differences in Societal Levels of Happiness: Relative Standards, Need Fulfillment, Culture, and Evaluation Theory

By E. Diener, Richard E. Lucas. 2000

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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Quality of Life and Leisure Activities: How do Leisure Activities Contribute to Subjective Well-Being? (2011, background): “An alternative theoretical framework is need theory which postulates that satisfaction of needs has beneficial effects on SWB ( Diener and Lucas 2000; Rodri ´guez et al. 2008).”
The Impact of Culture on the Individual Subjective Well-Being of the Italian Population: An Exploratory Study (2011, background): “Diener and Lucas (2000) set a challenging agenda for future research which has led in time to important insights.”
Sociological theories of subjective well-being (2009, background): “the strong and weak points of this theory ( Diener & Lucas, 2000 ).”
Making the Best of a Bad Situation: Satisfaction in the Slums of Calcutta (2001, background): “Oswald (1997, p. 1827), referring to income beyond the basic need fulfillment level, concluded, “Economic progress buys only a small amount of extra happiness.” We therefore predict that the correlation between income and life satisfaction will be greater among the very poor than the correlations th”
Well-being, Happiness and Why Relationships Matter: Evidence from Bangladesh (2009, background): “The anomaly identified earlier is highlighted again for although the relationship between income and wellbeing is a complex one, there is some consensus that for those with lowest incomes, the ability to satisfy basic needs has a significant impact on wellbeing (Veenhoven 1991, Diener and Lucas 200”
A Cross-Cultural Study of the Levels and Correlates of Life Satisfaction among Adolescents (2005, background): “An international study of college students found a high correlation between their ideal level of LS and their actual LS reports (Diener & Lucas, 2000).”
The influence of fear of happiness beliefs on responses to the satisfaction with life scale (2013, background): “Previous research indicates that people consider various life domains important to them when making life satisfaction judgements (Diener & Lucas, 2000).”
When what one has is enough: Mindfulness, financial desire discrepancy, and subjective well-being (2009, background): “…desire related discrepancies in the prediction of SWB is also consistent with evalua- ll rights reserved. tion theory (Diener & Biswas-Diener, 2002; Diener & Lucas, 2000), which argues that desires and goals are chronically salient standards that are particularly likely to influence SWB. Desire…”
The relationship between leisure and life satisfaction: application of activity and need theory (2007, background): “Overall, need theory has various limitations, but one of the more critical limitations is that efforts to produce exhaustive lists of biological and psychological needs have not received much empirical support ( Diener and Lucas 2000 ).”
Authentic leadership and eudaemonic well-being: Understanding leader-follower outcomes (2005, background): “…et al., 2003) as a general subjective evaluation of life in terms of pleasantness versus unpleasantness or as a summation of evaluative reactions to life stimuli encountered in various situations or domains (Diener & Lucas, 2000; Diener, Suh, Lucas, & Smith, 1999; Heller, Watson, & Ilies, 2004).”