Friendship is a consistent correlate of happiness, yet less is known about the associations of friendship specific … experiences and feelings with happiness. In this study (n = 4,382) the roles of perceived responses to capitalization attempts …, perceived mattering to and satisfaction of basic psychological needs in same-sex best friendships in happiness among men and …

Decades of empirical research leave no doubt that friendship experiences are consistent correlates of happiness. Yet …, little is known about how friendships are related to happiness. The present study examined personal sense of uniqueness as a … mediator of the relationship between same-sex best friendship quality and happiness in three samples each employing a different …

basic psychological needs (BPN) is associated with adolescent happiness. Yet, the specific mechanisms accounting for this … BPN and happiness. The analyses relied on structural equation modeling and bootstrapping procedures and found support for … interplay between BPN, sense of uniqueness and happiness are presented. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2013 …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … share of both the "very unhappy" and the "perfectly happy". Lower happiness inequality is found both between and within … goods helps to explain this greater happiness homogeneity. This new stylised fact arguably comes as a bonus to the Easterlin …

This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of similar affluence …. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to disentangle … contrast, immigrants are not less happy in France than they are elsewhere in Europe, but their happiness fall with the passage …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … contributed to this greater happiness homogeneity. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox,offering a …

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that the time trend in average happiness is flat during episodes of long …-run income growth. This mean-preserving declining spread in happiness comes about via falls in both the share of individuals who …