objective: to determine marital satisfaction and its influencing factors among fertile and infertile women in shahroud. materials and methods: in this comparative study, 1528 participants (511 infertile and1017 fertile women) were evaluated using enrich marital satisfaction scale. data were analyzed using chi-square and t-test. results: a total of 1402 participants (78.7%) had high marital sati...

In the contemporary workplace, insight into retirement behaviors is of crucial importance. Previous empirical evidence has found mixed results regarding the relationship between work attitudes, such as job satisfaction, and retirement behaviors, suggesting that further scholarly examination incorporating moderating and mediating variables into retirement models is needed. Drawing on comparative...

Using data from the first two rounds of the European Social Survey, we examine the link between income, reference income and life satisfaction across Western Europe. We find that whilst there is a strong positive relationship between income and life satisfaction, reference or comparison income exerts a strong negative influence. Interestingly, our results confirm the importance of personal valu...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between employees’ income level and employees’ job satisfaction. For this purpose, an empirical study was conducted in a British company. The results of the empirical study show that there is a significant relationship between employees’ income level and employees’ job satisfaction. Although the study found the possibility that job satisf...

Adolescence is a critical period where many patterns of health and health behaviour are formed. The objective of this study was to investigate cross-national variation in the relationship between family affluence and adolescent life satisfaction, and the impact of national income and income inequality on this relationship. Data from the 2006 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children: WHO collabo...

Internal Migration and Life Satisfaction: Well-Being Effects of Moving as a Young Adult Migration typically leads to higher income, but its association with life satisfaction remains unclear. Is migration accompanied by an increase in life satisfaction? If it is, is the increase in income responsible or are other life domains driving the satisfaction changes? These two questions are addressed u...

Life Satisfaction, Income and Personality We use personality traits to better understand the relationship between income and life satisfaction. Personality traits mediate the effect of income on life satisfaction. The effect of neuroticism, which measures sensitivity to threat and punishment, is strong in both the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socioeconomic Panel. Neuroticism in...

The scientific debate on the relation between Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and self reported indices of life satisfaction is still open. In a well-known finding, Easterlin reported no significant relationship between happiness and aggregate income in time-series analysis. However, life satisfaction appears to be strictly monotonically increasing with income when one studies this relation at a p...

This paper deals with the question whether or not individuals adapt their satisfaction norms to income changes. We distinguish between an initial primary effect and a lagged secondary effect. If there is a negative rebound effect, satisfaction norms adapt. Individual satisfaction is proxied by two subjective measures, one capturing individual self-reported satisfaction with life and the other w...