Does Individual Secularism Promote Life Satisfaction? The Moderating Role of Societal Development

Li, Liman Man Wai; Bond, Michael Harris

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“…more traditionally oriented countries -showing a strong conformity mechanism in explaining the relationship between marriage and life-satisfaction. This finding fits in with similar research on conformity effects for value orientations (Li & Bond 2010) and religiosity (Eichhorn 2011). Finally, we also find that the positive marriage effect was more prevalent in older-age societies -which of course makes sense considering the importance of traditional orientations.…”

Section: Contextualising the Effects Of Being Married On Life-satisfasupporting

confidence: 91%

“…Pointing in a similar direction are investigations distinguishing between different forms of value orientations and their impact on life-satisfaction. Li & Bond (2010) show that effects of personal attitudes can only be evaluated with regards to their effect on subjective well-being when taking into account prevailing value structures in the respective societies highlighting the importance of a certain amount of congruence between individuals and the respective societies they live in. Delhey 2010demonstrates that in economically richer societies post-materialistic value orientations enhance life-satisfaction, while the importance of material characteristics decreases.…”

Section: Cultural Context Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“… See Eichhorn (2011) for an example of how the effects of personal religiosity on lifesatisfaction may not be intrinsic in nature, but due to conformity behaviour depending on the level of religiosity in a country, orLi & Bond (2010) for an example how certain personal value orientations only affect subjective well-being when in congruence with the dominant societal ones.3 The argument is discussed in more detail -also pointing to a wider array of studies investigating the topic -in chapter 3.…”

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Happiness for Believers? Contextualizing the Effects of Religiosity on Life-Satisfaction

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2011

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Putnam's view of social capital 4.3. Social capital: Beyond economics or economics permeating deeper? 4.3.1. Social capital as a resource of individuals 4.3.2. Social capital as a characteristic of societies 4.4. The reach of social capital relations 4.4.1. Social capital as a multi-level approach 4.4.2. Bonding and bridging social capital 4.5. Questioning social capital 4.5.1. Criticising the functional approach to social capital 4.5.2. Doubting the validity of social capital 4.6. A system of social capital conceptualisations 4.7. The measurement of social capital 4.7.1. General considerations 4.7.2. Measuring social capital at the individual level through surveys 4.7.3. Measuring social capital at the aggregate level 4.7.4. Summary 5. Locating unemployment and life-satisfaction in social structures using social capital 5.1. Empirical links between well-being, unemployment and social capital 5.1.1. Identifying connections between social capital and well-being 5.

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Happiness for Believers? Contextualizing the Effects of Religiosity on Life-Satisfaction

Eichhorn

2011

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“…This context-dependency has 18 PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIFE been reported by, for example, La Barbera and Gürhan (1997), who found that the negative correlation of materialism and well-being only existed in born-again Christians and not in nonborn-again Christians. Another finding supporting the context-dependent view was reported by Li and Bond (2010). They noted a positive correlation between secularist values and life satisfaction in highly-developed nations.…”

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Purpose-Driven Life: Life Goals as a Predictor of Quality of Life and Psychological Health

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On the basis of self-determination theory, we predicted that the pursuit of material goals might negatively affect quality of life and psychological outcomes including sleep quality and mood states. We further hypothesized that the link between religious affiliation and these outcome variables could be explained, at least partially, by life goals. Longitudinal data collected from 700 Chinese adults demonstrated that for both Christians and non-believers, material goals had a detrimental effect on outcome variables measured six months later. More importantly, material goals partially mediated the effects of religious affiliation. That is, Christians were different from non-believers on the outcome variables partly because the former did not go after material goals. For these believers, moreover, the pursuit of religion-based goals brought psychological benefits. Not only can certain life goals explain why people with religious faiths have better psychological health and quality of life, they can also explain why not every religious person feels good and is content about their lives.

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“…Pointing into a similar direction are investigations distinguishing between different forms of value orientations and their impact on life-satisfaction. Li & Bond (2010) show that effects of personal attitudes can only be evaluated with regards to their effect on subjective well-being when taking into account prevailing value structures in the respective societies highlighting the importance of a certain amount of congruence between individuals and the respective societies they live in -a finding further substantiated by Eichhorn (2011) regarding the effect of religiosity on lifesatisfaction. Delhey (2010) demonstrates that in economically richer societies postmaterialistic value orientations enhance life-satisfaction, while the importance of material characteristics decreases.…”

Section: Attitudinal or Cultural Factorsmentioning

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Unemployment Needs Context: How Societal Differences between Countries Moderate the Loss in Life-Satisfaction for the Unemployed

Eichhorn

2012

J Happiness Stud

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Does Individual Secularism Promote Life Satisfaction? The Moderating Role of Societal Development

Abstract: Life satisfaction, Secular values, Subjective well-being, Human development index,

Cited by 24 publications

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Happiness for Believers? Contextualizing the Effects of Religiosity on Life-Satisfaction

Happiness for Believers? Contextualizing the Effects of Religiosity on Life-Satisfaction

Purpose-Driven Life: Life Goals as a Predictor of Quality of Life and Psychological Health

Unemployment Needs Context: How Societal Differences between Countries Moderate the Loss in Life-Satisfaction for the Unemployed

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