Subjective Well-Being and Prosociality Around the Globe: Happy People Give More of Their Time and Money to Others

Autor:	Kostadin Kushlev, Nina Radosic, Ed Diener
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Clinical Psychology medicine.anatomical_structure Social Psychology Prosocial behavior media_common.quotation_subject Happiness medicine Globe Subjective well-being Association (psychology) Psychology Social psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Social Psychological and Personality Science. 13:849-861
ISSN:	1948-5514 1948-5506
DOI:	10.1177/19485506211043379
Popis:	Subjective well-being (SWB) is positively related to prosocial giving and helping others, but so far, research has not explored the association of individual aspects of well-being with prosocial behavior across the world. We used a representative sample from the Gallup World Poll across 163 countries from 2006 to 2017 to explore the relationship between each aspect of well-being and prosocial behavior ( N = 1,797,630). We found that different aspects of SWB are not equally associated with prosocial behavior: While life satisfaction and positive affect consistently predicted being more prosocial across the globe, negative affect did not consistently predict being more or less prosocial. We further explore economic and cultural moderators of these relationships. Our findings underline the importance of studying the effects of the different components of SWB separately, indicating that life satisfaction and positive emotions—more so than negative emotions—consistently predict being more prosocial across the globe.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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