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  1. Is Societal Progress Muting the Expressivity of Negative Emotions? Evidence from Two Cross-national Studies
  2. New insights into Muslim well-being: a study across three cultures
  3. Between “we” and “well‐being”: Do basic psychological needs mediate the relationship between interdependent self‐construal and adolescent subjective well‐being?
  4. A Machine Learning Study of Predictors of Homophobia Across the Globe
  5. Personality traits and demographic predictors of variability in subjective well-being: Findings from 17 years of HILDA panel data
  6. Nature-permeated livability: A 166-country evaluation of environmental affordances
  7. Are Positive Views of Authority a Privilege? Socioeconomic Status and Perceptions of Powerholders Across 80 Cultures
  8. Developing a Six‐Item Short Form of Ryff's Psychological Well‐Being Measure: Demonstration of Short Form Development Using Exhaustive Search
  9. The influence of psychological flexibility on eudaimonic well-being: the mediating role of meaning in life and resilience
  10. A machine learning study of the predictors of fear of happiness in Turkey and the USA
  11. Ecological and Psychosocial Uniqueness of Collectivist Practices Versus Mindsets
  12. Autonomy is Associated with Well-being Across the World, but more Strongly in Wealthy and Individualistic Countries
  13. Social Capital vs. Financial Capital as Predictors of Future Subjective Well-being: A 22-Year Within-person Analysis
  14. Happiness as a signal: The social functions of expressions of happiness in the context of culture and emotional tribes
  15. But Is Ageing Really All Bad? Conceptualising Positive Ageing
  16. Impulsivity and online sports betting behavior: untangling the causal relationship
  17. Financial Well-Being in Older Adults: A Machine Learning Analysis of 47 Potential Predictors
  18. Using machine learning to identify predictors of self-perceptions of aging among older adults in England
  19. A Person-Centered Exploration of Happiness Conceptions and Their Relation to Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being
  20. Rethinking National Well‐Being: Introducing a Measure of Wealth‐Adjusted Life Satisfaction in 116 Countries
  21. Cultural religiosity moderates the relationship between being in love and subjective well-being
  22. Who Considers Terrorism Justifiable? A Machine Learning Analysis Across 65 Countries
  23. Examining 81 Predictors of Self‐Esteem Using Machine Learning
  24. Identifying the key predictors of positive self-perceptions of aging using machine learning
  25. Is Societal Progress Muting the Expression of Negative Emotions? Evidence from Two Multinational Studies
  26. Worse Places for Gods: Does Latitudinal Variability Loosen Religiosity?
  27. Life is viewed as better for minorities in places with more variable habitats
  28. Hopelessness mediates the relationship between self-perceptions of aging and negative affect: within-person results from the health and retirement study
  29. Examining the connection between position‐based power and social status across 70 cultures
  30. Informal social connectedness is mutually associated with generalized trust: longitudinal evidence from Australia
  31. Key Predictors of Generativity in Adulthood: A Machine Learning Analysis
  32. Workplace ideologies, employability and the ideal graduate identities
  33. What have we learned about fear of happiness? A review of a decade of empirical research
  34. Factor structure and measurement invariance of conceptions of happiness in Korea and Canada: an application of penalized structural equation modeling in Mplus
  35. Aversion to happiness mediates effects of meaning in life, perfectionism, and self-esteem on psychological distress in Turkish adults
  36. Level and stability of self-esteem mediate relationships between personality traits and life satisfaction: Bayesian multilevel modeling with annual data
  37. Increases in sense of purpose predict future positive changes in personality traits
  38. Re-Examining the Direction of the Relationship Between Optimism and Subjective Well-Being
  39. Eudaimonic Well-Being as a Moderator of the Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Life Satisfaction
  40. The sun's position at birth is unrelated to subjective well‐being: Debunking astrological claims
  41. Measurement Invariance of the Fear of Happiness Scale in Adults Samples From Six Countries
  42. Power or opportunity? Perceived inequality on life satisfaction explained by reduced trust in South Korea
  43. Predictors of Life Satisfaction: A Nationwide Investigation in Iran
  44. Thirteen Years of Subjective Well-Being: Within-Person Association between Positive Affect, Negative Affect, and Life Satisfaction
  45. Longitudinal associations between psychological and social well‐being: Exploring within‐person dynamics
  46. Purpose in Life Links Positive Aging Views to Life Satisfaction: A Within-Person Analysis Spanning 13 Years
  47. Attitudes toward demographic diversity in 16 advanced economies: Perceptions of conflict matters more than income
  48. Income and income satisfaction are better predictors of life satisfaction among people with lower levels of Eudaimonic Well-Being: a study in 141 countries
  49. Longitudinal Relationship Between Self-Perceptions of Aging and Depressive Symptoms: Exploring Reciprocal Within-Person Links
  50. Understanding Key Predictors of Life Satisfaction in a Nationally Representative Sample of Koreans
  51. A New Index of Perceived Job Quality in 116 Countries: Associations with Working Hours and Other National Characteristics
  52. Longitudinal relationship between psychological distress and personality traits
  53. Exploring How People Perceive Their Performance in Evolutionarily Significant Domains of Life
  54. Within-Person Associations Between Subjective Well-Being and Big Five Personality Traits
  55. How Stable are Life Domain Evaluations over Time? A 20-Year Study
  56. Job Satisfaction Mediates the Relationship between Psychosocial and Organization Factors and Mental Well-Being in Schoolteachers
  57. National wealth, individualism, generalised trust, and religiosity as moderators of the relationship between helping strangers and life satisfaction in 137 societies
  58. Measurement Invariance of the Satisfaction With Life Scale in South Korea
  59. Longitudinal Relationships Between Social Connection, Agency, and Emotional Well-Being: A 13-Year Study
  60. Mental Balance in 116 Nations: Where It Is Experienced and Valued
  61. Do Cross-Group Differences in Life Satisfaction Reflect Measurement Bias or True Differences in Life Satisfaction? Evidence from a Dutch National Sample
  62. Reciprocal relationships between personality traits and psychological well‐being
  63. Temporal Associations between Religiosity and Subjective Well-Being in a Nationally Representative Australian Sample
  64. Stability and Change in Subjective, Psychological, and Social Well-Being: A Latent State-Trait Analysis of Mental Health Continuum–Short Form in Korea and the Netherlands
  65. Latent State-Trait Modeling of Satisfaction with Life Scale: An Item-Level Analysis Using Dutch Panel Data
  66. A global index of anti-immigrant xenophobia: associations with cultural dimensions, national well-being, and economic indicators in 151 nations
  67. Self-esteem predicts positive affect directly and self-efficacy indirectly: a 10-year longitudinal study
  68. Nurses' well‐being during the coronavirus (2019) pandemic: A longitudinal mixed‐methods study
  69. Feelings of personal expressiveness predict future increases in life satisfaction and meaning in life: A four-wave longitudinal study
  70. The relationship between fatalistic beliefs and well-being depends on personal and national religiosity: A study in 34 countries
  71. Predictors of aversion to happiness: New Insights from a multi-national study
  72. Longitudinal Relations Between Depressive Symptoms and Life Satisfaction Over 15 Years
  73. Boosting Student Wellbeing Despite a Pandemic: Positive Psychology Interventions and the Impact of Sleep in the United Arab Emirates
  74. Neuroticism and Openness Moderate the Relationship Between Negative Affect and Life Satisfaction: a Multi-Level Bayesian Analysis
  75. Predictors of Life Satisfaction in New Zealand: Analysis of a National Dataset
  76. Longitudinal Relationships Between Personality Traits and Social Well-Being: A Two-Decade Study
  77. Between authority and common sense: development and investigation of a model explaining COVID-19 preventive behaviours
  78. Personality traits and psychological well-being as moderators of the relationship between stressors and negative affect: A daily diary study
  79. The Temporal Relationship Between Self-Acceptance and Generativity over Two Decades
  80. Japanese people's attitudes toward acculturation and intercultural relations
  81. Relationships between present/future orientation and life satisfaction over two decades
  82. National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty
  83. Cultural religiosity moderates the relationship between perceived societal injustice and satisfaction with one's life
  84. Within-person relationship between religiosity and life satisfaction: A 20-year study
  85. There is no temporal relationship between hedonic values and life satisfaction: A longitudinal study spanning 13 years
  86. Proximal versus distal ecological stress: Socio-ecological influences on political freedom, well-being, and societal confidence in 159 nations
  87. Positive and Negative Aging Perceptions as Predictors of the Longitudinal Trajectory of Perceived Stress
  88. Conceptions of Happiness Matter: Relationships between Fear and Fragility of Happiness and Mental and Physical Wellbeing
  89. Measurement Invariance of the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience Across 13 Countries
  90. Centrality and Dimensionality of 14 Indicators of Mental Well-Being in Four Countries: Developing an Integrative Framework to Guide Theorizing and Measurement
  91. Conceptions of Happiness Mediate the Relationship Between the Dark Triad and Well-Being
  92. Correction to: Aversion to Happiness Across Cultures: A Review of Where and Why People are Averse to Happiness
  93. The longitudinal interplay of depressive symptoms and loneliness: causal effects work in both directions and decay to zero before six years
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  96. The Contribution of Positive and Negative Affect to Life Satisfaction across Age
  97. Impacts of colder and hotter climates on richer and poorer people’s daily functioning
  98. Predictors of life satisfaction in the United Arab Emirates: Results based on Gallup data
  99. Towards a greater global understanding of wellbeing: A proposal for a more inclusive measure
  100. Internet Access and Voicing Opinions: The Moderating Roles of Age and the National Economy
  101. Differential Relationships of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well‐Being with Self‐Control and Long‐Term Orientation
  102. Predictors of life satisfaction in Australia: A study drawing upon annual data from the Gallup World Poll
  103. Religiosity’s Nomological Network and Temporal Change
  104. Work–Family Spillover and Subjective Well-Being: The Moderating Role of Coping Strategies
  105. Lay Conceptions of Happiness: Associations With Reported Well-Being, Personality Traits, and Materialism
  106. A multidimensional understanding of prosperity and well-being at country level: Data-driven explorations
  107. An international survey of perceptions of the 2014 FIFA World Cup: National levels of corruption as a context for perceptions of institutional corruption
  108. The relationship between gender and life satisfaction: analysis across demographic groups and global regions
  109. The Relationship Between Domain Satisfaction and Domain Importance: The Moderating Role of Depression
  110. The Dual Model of Materialism: Success Versus Happiness Materialism on Present and Future Life Satisfaction
  111. Satisfaction with Life Declines with Age in Malaysia: an Exploratory Analysis of Factors Influencing Subjective Well-Being in a Developing/Middle-Income Country
  112. Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance of the MHC-SF in the USA
  113. Predictors of life satisfaction in a large representative sample from Italy
  114. Predictors of life satisfaction in a large nationally representative Japanese sample
  115. A two-dimensional conceptual framework for understanding mental well-being
  116. Burnout, depression, efficacy beliefs, and work-related variables among school teachers
  117. Subjective health in relation to hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll
  118. Similarities and differences in predictors of life satisfaction across age groups: A 150-country study
  119. Is Subjective Ill-Being Related to Islamophobia in Germany? In Search for Moderators
  120. Gender differences in the predictors of life satisfaction across 150 nations
  121. Longitudinal associations between subjective and psychological well-being in Japan: A four-year cross-lagged panel study
  122. The importance of national levels of eudaimonic well-being to life satisfaction in old age: a global study
  123. Cultural religiosity as the moderator of the relationship between affective experience and life satisfaction: A study in 147 countries.
  124. Income satisfaction is less predictive of life satisfaction in individuals who believe their lives have meaning or purpose: A 94-nation study
  125. Optimal human functioning around the world: A new index of eudaimonic well-being in 166 nations
  126. A Positive Psychology Intervention Program in a Culturally-Diverse University: Boosting Happiness and Reducing Fear
  127. Directionality of the relationship between social well-being and subjective well-being: evidence from a 20-year longitudinal study
  128. The structure of the MHC-SF in a large American sample: contributions of multidimensional scaling
  129. Relationship Between Emotional Expression Discrepancy and Life Satisfaction Across Culture and Personal Values
  130. Fear and fragility of happiness as mediators of the relationship between insecure attachment and subjective well-being
  131. Investigating the relationships between subjective well-being and psychological well-being over two decades.
  132. Evaluating the Factor Structure of the MIDI Personality Scale Using Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling
  133. Fragility of happiness moderates the influence of negative predictors of subjective well-Being
  134. The Global Challenge of Jihadist Terrorism: A Quality-of-Life Model
  135. Mediators of the relationship between externality of happiness and subjective well-being
  136. Factorial/Discriminant Validity and Longitudinal Measurement Invariance of MHC-SF in Korean Young Adults
  137. Structural and discriminant validity of the tripartite model of mental well-being: differential relationships with the big five traits
  138. The Tripartite Model of Mental Well-Being in Iran: Factorial and Discriminant Validity
  139. Discriminant validity of hedonic, social, and psychological well-being in two Italian samples
  140. Optimism as the moderator of the relationship between fragility of happiness beliefs and experienced happiness
  141. Islamic Conceptions of Well-Being
  142. Factor structure and criterion validity of original and short versions of the Negative and Positive Affect Scale (NAPAS)
  143. Conceptions of happiness and life satisfaction: An exploratory study in 14 national groups
  144. Factor structure of mental well-being: Contributions of exploratory structural equation modeling
  145. The factor structure of the mental health continuum-short form (MHC-SF) in Serbia: an evaluation using exploratory structural equation modeling
  146. The Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance of Positive and Negative Affect
  147. Reinvestigation of the factor structure of the MHC-SF in the Netherlands: Contributions of exploratory structural equation modeling
  148. The Value of Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling in Identifying Factor Overlap in the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF): A Study with a New Zealand Sample
  149. Individualism as the moderator of the relationship between hedonism and happiness: A study in 19 nations
  150. Religiosity moderates the relationship between negative affect and life satisfaction: A study in 29 European countries
  151. Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Domain-Specific and General Life Satisfaction: A Study in Iran and Serbia
  152. A New Look at the Factor Structure of the MHC-SF in Iran and the United States Using Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling
  153. Factor Structure of Subjective Well-Being in Iran
  154. Revisiting the Empirical Distinction Between Hedonic and Eudaimonic Aspects of Well-Being Using Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling
  155. Religiosity Moderates the Relationship between Income Inequality and Life Satisfaction across the Globe
  156. Religiosity Reduces the Negative Influence of Injustice on Subjective Well-being: A Study in 121 Nations
  157. Fragility of Happiness Beliefs Across 15 National Groups
  158. Self‐esteem mediates the relationship between spirituality and subjective well‐being in Iran
  159. Differences in the endorsement of various conceptions of well-being between two Iranian groups.
  160. Aversion to Happiness Across Cultures: A Review of Where and Why People are Averse to Happiness
  161. Cross-Cultural Validation of Fear of Happiness Scale Across 14 National Groups
  162. Measurement invariance of the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) across three cultural groups
  163. The influence of fear of happiness beliefs on responses to the satisfaction with life scale
  164. Eastern Conceptualizations of Happiness: Fundamental Differences with Western Views
  165. Fear of Happiness Scale
  166. Development and Initial Validation of a Scale to Assess Sufi Beliefs
  167. A Comparison of Western and Islamic Conceptions of Happiness
  168. Mental Well-Being in Iran: The Importance of Comprehensive Well-Being in Understanding the Linkages of Personality and Values
  169. Investigation of the factor structure of spirituality and religiosity in Iranian Shiite university students
  170. The Big Five personality domains as predictors of social wellbeing in Iranian university students
  171. Investigation of the Contribution of Spirituality and Religiousness to Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being in Iranian Young Adults
  172. Investigation of the relation between cultural estrangement and hedonic and eudaimonic aspects of well-being in Iranian young adults
  173. Linking social axioms with indicators of positive interpersonal, social and environmental functioning in Iran: An exploratory study
  174. Big Five Personality Traits and Self-Esteem as Predictors of Life Satisfaction in Iranian Muslim University Students
  175. Value priorities as predictors of hedonic and eudaimonic aspects of well-being
  176. Levels of Mental Health Continuum and Personality Traits
  177. Social Participation, Sense of Community and Social Well Being: A Study on American, Italian and Iranian University Students