People care about their relative standing in society and therefore compare themselves to relevant others. Empirical findings suggest that there are concerns for relative standing for different goods and life domains such as income, cars, attractiveness, and supervisor's praise. Even education...

Positive affect, optimism, self-efficacy, sense of coherence (SOC), satisfaction with life and emotional intelligence are all positive subjective well-being (SWB) constructs. However, research regarding of what a positive SWB model consists of and the overlap and communalities between these...

The purposes of this study were to examine the associations between serious leisure, leisure satisfaction and subjective well-being (SWB), and the variances of the leisure satisfaction and SWB domains as well. Serious leisure participants (n = 193) were selected from seven arts groups in a key...

More and more parents are sharing the care of their children after divorce. While the effects of joint physical custody on child outcomes have been studied abundantly, the consequences for parent’s well-being received less attention. This study investigates how the subjective well-being of...

A relatively limited number of studies have examined the effect of fear of crime and crime victimization on subjective well-being. This paper examines how fear of crime and crime victimization affect the well-being of people in Africa using data from the Round 4 of the Afrobarometer Surveys...

This study aims to examine the predictors of subjective well-being in older gays and lesbians across multiple domains including health, function, personality, and socio-environmental factors. Participants were 209 community-dwelling gays and lesbians ages 56–80 residing in Israel. Structured...

This paper reports on a comparative analysis of the subjective well-being of parents and their adolescent children regarding gender, age and social class. Participants were 543 adolescents aged between 12 and 16 years (68.3 % girls) and their respective parents with an average age of...

The present study investigates the relation between dispositional and state hope levels and student well-being in the context of causality by model analysis. Eight hundred and eighty-one students (653 females, 228 males) from different departments of five universities (Ankara, Çanakkale Onsekiz...

This paper studies the dynamics and determinants of financial well-being in the EU-27 area, by comparatively examining its objective and subjective dimensions, based on Eurostat aggregated data. A common set of socio-economic drivers, including economic growth, has been explained in relation...

Despite increasing interest in psychology of subjective well-being, little is known about satisfaction with sex life outside of western countries. This study investigated cross-cultural similarities and differences in the levels and correlates of sex satisfaction among emerging adults in Angola,...