because it is more under personal control than other sources of life satisfaction. This study asked whether people who … participate in cultural leisure activities have higher life satisfaction than people who do not, if different types of leisure … have the same influence on life satisfaction and if satisfaction is dependent on the frequency of participation or the …

preferences. Our results show that farmers in both drought-prone and flood-prone regions value the reduction in yield variability …

active harm from general sources in society on life satisfaction during the same assessment period, and prospectively 1 year …. For people high in system justification beliefs, societal-level harm prospectively predicted lower life satisfaction 1 … system justification trumps experiences of harm and buffers life satisfaction in the short-term; the resulting experience …

A new paper presents a strong case for life satisfaction scales (Diener et al. in Soc Indic Res, <CitationRef …: the contrast between individual satisfaction and social discontent; and the contradictory evidence on the benefits of …