ArticleEurope's journal of psychology2025
The Effects of Social Comparison and Subjective Financial Well-Being on Subjective Well-Being.
Article in Europe's journal of psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Water, sanitation, and depressive symptoms in Indonesia: The mediating role of life satisfaction.PloS one · 2026Article
- The Effects of Social Comparison and Subjective Financial Well-Being on Subjective Well-Being.Europe's journal of psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Existing research on the antecedents of subjective well-being (SWB), which comprises life satisfaction and happiness, remains inconclusive. Some studies suggest that increasing income enhances SWB, while others emphasize the role of income comparison within reference groups in influencing SWB. The role of subjective financial well-being in enhancing subjective well-being is also inconclusive. On the one hand, financial well-being may contribute to increasing SWB; on the other, subjective financial well-being is a characteristic compared to reference groups, and this comparison is what influences SWB. This study, therefore, sets out to answer the question: How does social comparison and subjective financial well-being influence SWB? We predict that social comparison influences SWB (life satisfaction and happiness) through the mediation of subjective financial well-being. Data from 3,591 respondents (1,750 females, 1,841 males, aged 21 - 60 years;
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