Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

Income, health, and well-being around the world: evidence from the Gallup World Poll.

T he great promise of surveys in which people report their own level of life satisfaction is that such surveys might provide a straightforward and easily collected measure of individual or national well-being that aggregates over the various components of well-being, such as economic status, health, family circumstances, and even human and political rights. Layard (2005) argues forcefully such ...

Religion and psychological well-being and distress in Israeli Jews: findings from the Gallup World Poll.

BACKGROUND This study investigates religious predictors of psychological well-being and psychological distress in a five-year national probability sample of Israeli Jews (N = 4,073). Data were taken from the 2006-2010 annual surveys of Israel as a part of the multinational Gallup World Poll. METHODS Analyses identified religious predictors of five-item scales of well-being and distress, adjus...

Gender and Well - Being around the World

Needs and subjective well-being around the world.

Across a sample of 123 countries, we examined the association between the fulfillment of needs and subjective well-being (SWB), including life evaluation, positive feelings, and negative feelings. Need fulfillment was consistently associated with SWB across world regions. Life evaluation was most associated with fulfilling basic needs; positive feelings were most associated with social and resp...

reliability and validity of the persian version of the world health organization-five well-being index

background : a multidimensional approach to health which addresses the psychological features of health justifies the necessity of designing or validation of brief instruments for screening in general population. this study aims to evaluate the reliability and validity of the persian version of the who-5-p as a brief scale of well-being. methods : in this study 451 individuals, i.e., over-15-ye...