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Subjective Well‐Being and Peace
Author(s) -
Diener Ed,
Tov William
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2007.00517.x
Subject(s) - moderation , world values survey , multilevel model , social psychology , psychology , subjective well being , immigration , government (linguistics) , democracy , product (mathematics) , inequality , political science , happiness , politics , law , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , machine learning , computer science
Hierarchical generalized linear modeling was employed to examine the relations between person‐level subjective well‐being (SWB) and peace‐relevant attitudes, and how these relations vary across nations in the World Values Survey. Person‐level SWB was associated with more confidence in the government and armed forces, greater emphasis on postmaterialist values, stronger support for democracy, less intolerance of immigrants and racial groups, and greater willingness to fight for one's country. These associations were moderated at the nation level by liberal development, violent inequality, gross domestic product, and nation‐level SWB. The moderator effects indicate that happy people are not completely blind to the conditions of their society and that their endorsement of peace attitudes is sensitive to whether the conditions for peace do exist.