Are conservatives happier than liberals? Not always and not everywhere
- Autores: Olga Stavrova, Maike Luhmann
- Localización: Journal of Research in Personality, ISSN-e 1095-7251, Vol. 63, Nº. 0, 2016, págs. 29-35
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Abstract Prior research has shown that conservatives report higher levels of subjective well-being than liberals (happiness gap). We investigate to what extent this phenomenon exists in different time periods within the United States (Study 1, N = 40,000) and in different countries (Study 2, N = 230,000). Consistent with our hypotheses grounded in the “shared reality” and person-culture fit literature, conservatives were happier and more satisfied with their lives than liberals to the extent that the conservative political ideology prevailed in their socio-cultural context, be it a specific time period in the U.S. or a specific country. These results show that the happiness gap between conservatives and liberals is less universal than previously assumed.
