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Stavrova, Olga ORCID: 0000-0002-6079-4151 and Luhmann, Maike ORCID: 0000-0001-6211-9304 (2016). Are conservatives happier than liberals? Not always and not everywhere. J. Res. Pers., 63. S. 29 - 36. SAN DIEGO: ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE. ISSN 1095-7251

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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. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Stavrova, Olga UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6079-4151 UNSPECIFIED Luhmann, Maike UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-6211-9304 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-268991
DOI:	10.1016/j.jrp.2016.04.011
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Res. Pers.
Volume:	63
Page Range:	S. 29 - 36
Date:	2016
Publisher:	ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
Place of Publication:	SAN DIEGO
ISSN:	1095-7251
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language POLITICAL-IDEOLOGY; PEOPLE HAPPY; SELF-ESTEEM; RELIGIOSITY; ATTITUDES; HAPPINESS Multiple languages Psychology, Social Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/26899