Happiness Fall 2017 Argyle Update Project

Argyle update project

The goal of this optional research exercise is to find recent happiness research on some of the areas reported by Argyle in order to update and confirm or revise his 2003 report.

Report up to three findings by copying and pasting the following template in the appropriate subsection below:

Topic of research:

Summary of findings:

Link to article or resource:

Your name:

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Arglyle, "Causes and Correlates of Happiness"

• Age
• Education
• Social Status
• Income
• Marriage
• Ethnicity
• Employment
• Leisure
• Religion
• Life Events

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Topic of research: Income and Happiness

Summary of findings: This study examines the relationships between income, work, and happiness in China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. The results of this study show that working hours are negatively associated with happiness in China, Japan and Taiwan, but not in South Korea. Also, relative income is significantly associated with happiness in all four countries, but it only mediates the association between working hours and happiness in China. This study and the results suggest that consideration of economic and labour policies are critical to promote the happiness of East Asian workers.

Link to article or resource: http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=32&sid=da8f5d6d-797f-462a-aa39-b239ffe8fdea%40sessionmgr102

Your name: Allana Platt

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Topic of research:

Summary of findings:

Link to article or resource:

Your name: Allana Platt

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Topic of research: Age and Happiness

Summary of findings: This study examined the trajectories of happiness from early adulthood to midlife in two Canadian longitudinal studies involving highschool seniors and university seniors. They found that in both groups, happiness increased in the thirties. While this runs counter to some cross-sectional studies, the article explains how longitudinal studies are necessary for tracking patterns of change in happiness over a lifespan and making accurate conclusions.

Link to article or resource: http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=29&sid=da8f5d6d-797f-462a-aa39-b239ffe8fdea%40sessionmgr102

Your name: Allana Platt

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Topic of research: Marriage and Children as a Key to Happiness?

Summary of findings: This study examined the cross-national differences of the effect of marriage and children on subjective well-being. The study examines the relationship between family structure, specifically the perceived importance of marriage and parenthood in a given culture, and how it affected happiness. The study found that women and the effect of marriage depends on the social approval of alternative family types in their culture and society. For men, marriage is important for their well-being regardless of alternative family types. They conclude that marriage is beneficial for men, while for women, satisfying the social norms with regard to family life may be more important. In terms of the effect of children, they found that the effect of young children in the household did not have a significant effect on happiness or satisfaction with family life in men or women. However the effect of older children (ages 6-17) is associated with reduced happiness of both men and women. And there is an effect of reduced satisfaction with family life in women.

Link to article or resource: http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=8&sid=da8f5d6d-797f-462a-aa39-b239ffe8fdea%40sessionmgr102

Your name: Allana Platt

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Topic of research: Democracy and Happiness

Summary of findings: This article proves the assumption that Democracy positively correlates with greater happiness. This was found to be true in this research study, but in order for Democracy to fully increase happiness, governments have to be upholding civil liberties of citizens.

Link to article or resource: http://theartsjournal.org/index.php/site/article/view/913/459

Your name: Sophie Anton

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Topic of research: Education Effect on Happiness

Summary of findings: People who receive more education have greater social networks and greater involvement, which leads to greater happiness. This data was found from East Asian country's survey data.

Link to article or resource: https://search-proquest-com.proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu/docview/918771193?OpenUrlRefId=info:xri/sid:primo&accountid=1557

Your name: Sophie Anton

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Topic of research: Leisure and Personality Effect on Happiness

Summary of findings: This article studied college students in China in order to find that extraverted people are more likely to do leisure activities versus neurotic people who are more likely to not partake in leisure activities. Extraverted people also gained more satisfaction from leisure than neurotic people. This study found that extraverted people are more likely to be happy than neurotic people and that leisure activities are more likely to make people happy than other activities.

Link to article or resource: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23545547_Personality_Leisure_Experiences_and_Happiness

Your name: Sophie Anton

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Topic of research: Income's effect on life happiness and state happiness.

Summary of findings: Higher income is associated with higher life satisfaction, but is not associated with increase emotional state happiness, where as low income is associated with both lower life satisfaction and decreased emotional wellbeing.

Link to article or resource: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2944762/

Your name: Bridger Scholten

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Topic of research: Children's effect on happiness.

Summary of findings: Having children has a small negative effect on happiness, when one takes into account the better circumstances of those who choose to have children. "Parents experience more daily joy and more daily stress than non-parents."

Link to article or resource:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3910586/

Your name: Bridger Scholten

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Topic of research: Age of Marriage & Happiness

Summary of findings: Beginning with a discussion of the implications of the “Great Crossover” – the average age of having your first child now precedes the average age of marriage – which has altogether poor happiness effects for children (as children born to unmarried parents are more likely to suffer “emotionally, academically, and financially”). Further finding that although marriages formed later in life have smaller divorce rates (and women who marry later often earn up to $15,000 more a year), women who marry at age 24-26 are more likely to describe their marriage as “very happy.” To boot, these studies found that Twentysomethings who are unmarried are “more likely to drink to excess, to be depressed, and to report lower levels of happiness with their lives” compared to married Twentysomethings.

Link to article or resource: https://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/late-marriage-and-its-consequences/?mcubz=0 http://nationalmarriageproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/KnotYet-FinalForWeb.pdf

Your name: Nicole Rogers

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Topic of research: Marriage & Life Happiness

Summary of findings: A yearly study of 10,000 adults from 1981 through 2008 finds that marriage doesn’t make people happier, but seems to “safeguard” against declines in happiness. Becoming a parent seems to reap similar results as people have higher state happiness in the time surrounding the child’s birth then seem to return to their baseline.

Link to article or resource: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/are_married_people_happier

Your name: Nicole Rogers

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Topic of research: Age & Happiness

Summary of findings:An analysis of happiness and age finds that the graphical representation of age and level of happiness would look like a “U-bend.” As both the young and old report higher levels of happiness and the middle age people and Twentysomethings report lower levels.

Link to article or resource: http://www.economist.com/node/17722567

Your name: Nicole Rogers

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Topic of research: Happiness exists because of positive affect through marriage, friendship, income, work performance, and health

Summary of findings: Happiness is positively correlated with indicators of superior mental and physical health. Happiness, as well as the experience of frequent positive affect, likely plays a role in health through its effects on social relationships, healthy behavior, stress, accident and suicide rates. Happy people appear to be more successful than their less happy peers in the three primary life domains: work, relationships, and health.

Link to article or resource: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/bul-1316803.pdf

Your name:Caitlin Miller

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Topic of research: Relationship between happiness and health

Summary of findings: Happiness and positive attitudes towards life prevent the autonomic nervous system from activating physiological reactions that could have cumulative detrimental effects on income, work status, and education. Additionally, the quality of relationships with friends has been found to be strongly associated with happiness. The authors find that best friendship quality – as measured by the subjective rating of respondents’ relationships with their best friends – is the only significant predictor of happiness. Happiness is found to be the best predictor of health in all of the stages of the analysis explained in the article.

Link to article or resource: https://www.york.ac.uk/media/economics/documents/herc/wp/11_07.pdf

Your name: Caitlin Miller

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Topic of research: Socio-demographic and economic factors of happiness

Summary of findings: Young and old people report being happier than middle-aged people. The least happy people are aged between 30 and 35. Women report being slightly happier than men. Couples with and without children are happier than singles, single parents and people living in collective households. People with higher education indicate significantly higher well-being. Bad health significantly lowers self-reported happiness. Unhappy people do not perform well in the workplace, thus leading to being laid off. Happy people are more likely to be high performers in their jobs so they are able to maintain a steady employment. People with higher incomes have more opportunities to achieve whatever they desire, such as material goods and service, which makes them happier.

Link to article or resource: https://www.bsfrey.ch/articles/_365_2002.pdf

Your name: Caitlin Miller

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Topic of research: Happiness, Age, & Money

Summary of findings: A higher income tends to increase the happiness of young adults, more-so than it does for elderly people.

Link to article or resource: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X10001431

Your name: Anna Wodarz

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Topic of research: Leisure & Happiness

Summary of Findings: Leisure is incredibly important to happiness, but not because of the leisure itself, but the aspects that are normally associated with leisure activities (quality time with friends, self-fulfillment, etc).

Link to article or resource: https://search-proquest-com.proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu/docview/1497149520/fulltextPDF/7EF7408CCA1F423BPQ/1?accountid=1557 - Titled: “ Happiness and Leisure Across Countries: Evidence from International Survey Data”

Your name: Anna Wodarz

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Topic of research: Leisure & Happiness

Summary of Findings: This article looked at subjective well being in association with self-reported leisure time physical activity (LTPA) and leisure time sedentary behavior (LTSB). Participants that engaged in higher frequency of leisure activities reported a higher subjective well being, especially in leisure activities related to walking, gardening, group exercise, TV watching, and social chatting. It is reported in the discussion section that this research should be replicated for greater analysis.

Link to article or resource: https://search-proquest-com.proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu/docview/1793529767/647146291E4540E9PQ/1?accountid=1557

Your name: Paul Leonetti

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Topic of research: Life Events and Happiness

Summary of findings: "Evolution of Well-Being and Happiness After Increases in Consumption of Fruit and Vegetables" This research found that, "increase fruit and vegetable consumption was predictive of increased happiness, life satisfaction, and well-being." Results from the study found that the participants, "were up to 0.24 life-satisfaction (for an increase of 8 portions a day), which is equal in size to the psychological condition gain of moving from unemployment to employment. Improvements occurred within 24 months." Eat your fruits and veggies people!

Link to article or resource: https://search-proquest-com.proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu/docview/1813031803/fulltextPDF/665E9E987335433CPQ/1?accountid=1557

Your name: Paul Leonetti

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Topic of research: Happiness and Income

Summary of findings: Results from this study found and reaffirm that a person's happiness increases when their income becomes larger than the average income of other individuals in a group (a reference group). And a person's happiness decreases when the average income of a reference group increases in comparison to theirs. Comparison income can have a negative effect on an individuals happiness.

Link to article or resource: https://search-proquest-com.proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu/docview/1810721588/AB2A446429264C8BPQ/1?accountid=1557

Your name: Paul Leonetti

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Topic of research: Size of Government and Happiness

Summary of findings: This article includes research about how government size and efficiency relate to individuals life satisfaction. The research shows that there was higher life satisfaction in nations with high quality small governments. The research suggests that this is because neoliberals find welfare spending wasteful and excessive regulations are harmful to citizens. Government size was “measured by general government consumption spending as a percentage of GDP” (Bjornskov). The article also includes research results from trying to find the optimal government size. One study found that per capita government consumption expenditure against GDP should be between $1,105 to $3,650, or 5.6 and 18.6%.

Link to article or resource: http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&sid=948dbc30-e4c6-466b-bd4b-4bd0d6a4d6a4%40sessionmgr120

Your name: Lauren Olson

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Topic of research: Leisure(yoga) and Happiness

Summary of findings: This compares yoga practitioners and college students self reported results from a BMS instrument that included 44 questions split into three sections, body, mind, and spirit. ”In summary, more yoga practitioners than college students reported that they had a strong sense of morals/values and that they more often expressed their feelings with others. However, college students were more likely than yoga practitioners to report that they often/always maintained stability in their life in a healthy way, or that they were tolerant of others.”

Link to article: https://search-proquest-com.proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu/docview/850724107?OpenUrlRefId=info:xri/sid:primo&accountid=1557

Your name: Lauren Olson

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Topic of research: Religion and Happiness

Summary of findings: This article looks into happiness and religious attendance. It also looks at stress buffering effect of religious attendance. The research found that “although the effect size is relatively small, religious attendance is associated with a higher level of happiness in South Korea. However, this positive effect holds only for women and only for Protestants.” (Jung)

Link to Article: https://search-proquest-com.proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu/docview/1550071538?accountid=1557&rfr_id=info%3Axri%2Fsid%3Aprimo

Your name: Lauren Olson

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Topic of research: Income and happiness

Summary of findings: This study was a reexamination on previous findings that suggest money buys little happiness. The study showed that there are many other variables that need to be factored, including: extraversion, relative income, adaptation, working hours, and time spent away from home. The premise was that there is not a causal relationship between income and happiness because of all the variables.

Link to article or resource: https://www.york.ac.uk/media/economics/documents/discussionpapers/2009/0902.pdf

Your name: Audrey Murray

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Topic of research: Wealth and happiness

Summary of findings: This study looks at whether increasing the wealth of all improves happiness. They predicted that the short-term effect of happiness will be much higher than the long term effect. They also found that correlations between income and happiness are greater in poor nations and almost nonexistent in rich nations.

Link to article or resource: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1024790530822

Your name: Audrey Murray

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Topic of research: Self-esteem and happiness

Summary of findings: The study looked at whether self-esteem has a strong relationship with happiness. They found that people with low self-esteem are more likely to be depressed. They also found that the only way to measure happiness is from self-report and that people with high self-esteem report being happier. High self-esteem is the strongest predictor of life satisfaction.

Link to article or resource: http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/selfesteembaumeister.pdf

Your name: Audrey Murray

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Topic of research: Religion and Happiness

Summary of findings: The study seemed to have a similar conclusion to Argyle's. The greater the participation in church and religious activities, the higher the rate of self proclaimed happiness. It suggests the positive correlation between religion and happiness stemming from the companionship, values, and goals that come from religious interaction.

Link to article or resource: http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=4&sid=f421b9ee-f777-45c1-9924-79bb3ec5f3d1%40sessionmgr4006

Your name: Colton Cavey

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Topic of Research: Age and Happiness

Summary of Findings: The in depth study came to the general consensus that different ages do experience different levels of happiness. On a general level, the correlation is that the older you are the happier you are. However, there seems to be a spike in happiness near your 20's and decrease in your happiness around your 80's. The article provides very specific data on the correlation.

Link to article or resource: http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=7&sid=f421b9ee-f777-45c1-9924-79bb3ec5f3d1%40sessionmgr4006

Your name: Colton Cavey

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Topic of research: Marriage and Happiness

Summary of findings: This research examines the correlation of marriage and happiness across different nations. The discussion highlights the positive correlation of marriage and happiness, but also focuses on the specifics of that correlation and how it applies to each gender in relation to the spouse and the family as a whole.

Link to article or resource: http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=10&sid=f421b9ee-f777-45c1-9924-79bb3ec5f3d1%40sessionmgr4006

Your name: Colton Cavey

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Topic of research: Partner/Children (Family) and Happiness

Summary of findings: This study found 4 distinct conclusions. It found that being in a partnership has a distinct positive impact on happiness. A first born child increases well-being especially for males if their first born is also a male. Additional children after the first have negative effects on the well-being of females and no effect for males. The last finding was that the subjective well-being of males and females from the age of 50-70 are not significantly different whether they had any children.

Link to article or resource: http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&sid=2fe7b77d-b4a9-41b2-b586-22a58fbebc0f%40sessionmgr4009

Your name: Emma Baldwin

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Topic of research: Happiness and Employment (Self-Employed vs. Wage-Earners)

Summary of findings: This study used six indicators to find if the well-being of the self-employed is greater than that of wage-earners. The six indicators included job satisfaction, life satisfaction, stress of job, mental strain of job, mental health problems and poor general health. The study found that the self-employed had a higher job satisfaction and life satisfaction, but also found evidence that self-employment causes more mental health problems and that they see their job as less mentally straining.

Link to article or resource: https://ac.els-cdn.com/S0148296313002634/1-s2.0-S0148296313002634-main.pdf?_tid=8fc54986-a18c-11e7-8af0-00000aacb361&acdnat=1506301254_0075bbf1c57a93a3e257a86bb73450a5

Your name: Emma Baldwin

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Topic of research: Education and Happiness

Summary of findings: This study looked at indirect and direct effects of education on happiness in Spain. The indirect affects include the fact that higher income and labor status through education has positive influences on happiness. Overall the study found that education does has a direct positive impact on happiness due to the "self-confidence" or "self-estimation" effect from becoming more knowledgeable. They also found that the direct effects of education on happiness are not dependent on the level of education from primary, secondary, or tertiary.

Link to article or resource: https://search.proquest.com/pqrl/docview/1022373273/fulltextPDF/64F1796D44A04EA7PQ/2?accountid=1557

Your name: Emma Baldwin

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Topic of research: Education and Happiness

Summary of findings: This study found that those with a higher level of education achieve a higher level of happiness, but in an indirect manner. It's been shown that having a higher level of education keeps you connected with the world around you, which is a driving factor in happiness. Also, education facilitates happiness, because individuals who are capable of determining their own commitments are more likely to live happy and flourishing lives.

Link to article or resource: https://search-proquest-com.proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu/docview/918771193?OpenUrlRefId=info:xri/sid:primo&accountid=1557

Your name: Jeff Jones

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Topic of research:Forest Therapy and Happiness

Summary of findings:The study discovered that there was a significant increase in one's happiness by demonstrating cardiovascular activity in nature settings. When forest walking and urban walking speeds were compared, walking speeds remained the same. However there was a higher value held towards forest walking as well as a larger decrease in tension-anxiety, anger-hostility, fatigue and confusion.

Link to article or resource: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2014/834360/

Your name: Jeff Jones

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Topic of research: Freedom and Happiness

Summary of findings: This finding unveils the correlation between levels of happiness and amounts of freedom. With many factors taken into consideration to certain demographics that were studied (income, age, etc), the excerpt came to the consensus that countries with more freedom have a tendency to be happier than those in more communist and controlling countries. Even though more free countries were happier, it didn't necessarily mean that their overall qualities of their lives were better.

Link to article or resource: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=1A2siA19hKYC&oi=fnd&pg=PA257&dq=happiness+correlation+study&ots=2pjw1g6-ko&sig=mfvxsAGC85UvhDCibNRx-3MJE4I#v=onepage&q=happiness%20correlation%20study&f=false (p 257-292)

Your name: Jeff Jones

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Topic of research: Leisure and Happiness

Summary of findings: The article by Lathia et al. describes a research study done in which individuals’ smartphones tracked their physical activity levels and participants also took a mood-tracking questionnaire at two random points throughout the day. The findings of the study found the individuals who had higher reports of physical activity, whether that be exercise or non-exercise, were happier than those who were not as physically active.

Link to article or resource: http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=6&sid=e1870ac0-60d7-42ad-b7b3-2feac889ab53%40sessionmgr4010

Your name: Alanna Unruh

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Topic of research: Marriage, Children, and Happiness

Summary of findings: The research done by Vanassche et al. examined how happiness is affected by marriage and the presence of children in 24 countries. After looking over the data, they found that marriage does in fact increase happiness, and it positively affects females and males in different ways. For women, the researchers found that the increase in happiness correlating to marriage had to do with its social approval and it is, in some cases, culturally significant. On the other hand, the study found that men benefit from marriage due to its positive affect on their well-being. As for the correlation between childbearing and happiness, Vanassche et al. discovered that the age of the child is important for determining its effect on the parents’ happiness. The researchers found that young children do not increase nor decrease a married couples’ happiness. Older children, however, were found to possibly decrease the happiness of a married couple. The results included additional factors, such as cultural and social elements, that were important in determining how a married couple’s happiness may be affected by childbearing.

Link to article or resource: http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=10&sid=e174d9f2-69f1-4a84-9d7a-423d79ed000d%40sessionmgr4009

Your name: Alanna Unruh

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Topic of research: Social Status, Employment, and Happiness

Summary of findings: The research article by Xiang et al. discusses the effect one’s occupational status and its related social status in China has one his/ her happiness. It was determined that the higher one’s social status was due to his occupation, the happier he would be. The correlation between social status, employment, and happiness was hypothesized to be due to corresponding variables such as self-confidence and mental health.

Link to article or resource: http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=10&sid=827dd423-712c-42dc-a230-5c13052ba99c%40sessionmgr4010

Your name: Alanna Unruh

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Topic of Research: Income and Happiness

Summary of Findings: This study found that those who win "medium" lotteries go on to have significantly better psychological health. However, the effects take a couple years to develop. After two years is when the researches could see a significant difference from the control and the group of those who had won a lottery.

Link to Article: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/33935/1/515785334.pdf

Your Name: Kimberly Forster

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Topic of Research: Marriage, Life Events, and Happiness

Summary of Findings: This study found that death causes significant mental distress. The death of a spouse has the largest level of emotional severity, followed by the death of a child, and then death of a parent. Additionally, women suffer larger falls in happiness than men, especially in the death of a child.

Link to Article: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/5504/1/WRRO_author_version_front_page2.pdf

Your Name: Kimberly Forster

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Topic of Research: Age and Happiness

Summary of Findings: This research started out by looking at the previous research that found a U-shaped relationship between age and happiness. After completing the study, some data looked very similar to a U-shape, others a wave. However, the U-Shape disappeared when using fixed effects because of a reverse causality issue: happiness increasing variables, such as getting a job, getting married, or high income. The main findings from fixed-effects regression is a large and steady decrease in happiness as people get older.

Link to Article: http://www.ncer.edu.au/papers/documents/WPNo26R.pdf

Your Name: Kimberly Forster

Topic of Research: Happiness and Age

Summary of Findings: Studies of happiness levels across the life span have found support for two rival hypotheses. The positivity effect states that as people get older, they increasingly attend to positive information, which implies that happiness remains stable or increases with age, whereas the U-shaped hypothesis posits a curvilinear shape resulting from a dip during midlife. Both have been presented as potentially universal hypotheses that relate to cognitive and/or biological causes. The current study examined the happiness-age relationship across 29 European nations (N = 46,301) to explore whether it is moderated by national wealth, as indexed by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita. It was found that eudaimonic and hedonic happiness remained relatively stable across the life span only in the most affluent nations; in poorer nations, there was either a fluctuating or steady age-associated decline. These findings challenge the cultural universality of the happiness-age relationship and suggest that models of how age relates to happiness should include the socioeconomic level of analysis.

Link to Article: http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=5&sid=cae422cb-a86e-43db-bf9c-049b2ab12b65%40sessionmgr4007&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=109385621&db=a9h

Your Name: Cassidy Maddio

Topic of Research: Happiness and Social Status

Summary of Findings: Does the intensity of social comparison condition the effect of income on well-being? Does the reference group for comparison condition this effect? We present results from the Social Status, Consumption, and Happiness Survey, a national survey of Americans conducted in 2012. The findings suggest that the more highly individuals rate their income relative to others, the happier they are; that individuals who find it important to compare their income to that of others are less happy; and that the reference group that is salient for comparison conditions the association between income and well-being

Link to Article: http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=8&sid=cae422cb-a86e-43db-bf9c-049b2ab12b65%40sessionmgr4007

Your Name: Cassidy Maddio

Topic of Research: Ethnicity, Leisure and Happiness

Summary of Article: The purpose of this study was to examine how ethnicity and leisure satisfaction affected people's happiness, peacefulness, and quality of life. A trilingual telephone survey of Chinese/Canadians (N = 261) and British/Canadians (N = 258) was conducted. Hierarchical multiple regressions indicated that sex had no significant effect on any regressors. Ethnicity significantly affected standard of living, achieving in life, and life as a whole. Overall leisure satisfaction significantly affected happiness, peacefulness, and all nine quality of life domains. Canonical correlations also showed that happiness and achieving in life were positively correlated for British/Canadians and happiness and personal relationships were positively correlated for some Chinese/Canadians.

Link to Article: http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=12&sid=cae422cb-a86e-43db-bf9c-049b2ab12b65%40sessionmgr4007

Your Name: Cassidy Maddio

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Topic of research: Nature and Happiness

Summary of findings: Research found that when humans interact with nature they become more vital in the work place and have over all

better wellbeing. This relevant to Arglyle because it looks at work place and social topics.

Link to article or resource: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169204616302717

Your name: Kanyon Powers

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Topic of research: The pursuit of happiness; reflection on past philosophers ideas on happiness.

Summary of findings: A brief outline of what past philosophers have said about Happiness and how psychological science has

helped or hindered those ideas.

Link to article or resource: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40212237

Your name: Kanyon Powers

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Topic of research: Music and overall happiness.

Summary of findings: There is a link between musical people and overall happiness. This isn’t super ;;relevant to Arglyle but I

thought it was interesting.

Link to article or resource: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3741536/

Your name: Kanyon Powers

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Topic of research: Age and Money

Summary of findings: Younger people tend to care more about wealth and therefore wealth brings more happiness to the younger generation rather than to the elderly.

Link to article or resource: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X10001431

Your name: Auzien Homaizad