Subjective Well-Being and Peace

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

6-2007

Abstract

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.

Discipline

Personality and Social Contexts | Social Psychology

Research Areas

Psychology

Publication

Journal of Social Issues

Volume

63

Issue

2

First Page

421

Last Page

440

ISSN

0022-4537

Identifier

10.1111/j.1540-4560.2007.00517.x

Publisher

Wiley

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.2007.00517.x

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