Findings - gender, culture, religion

• Happiness and gender 


  Women have a greater capacity to feel joy in good times compared to men.

  Robins & Regier found women are 2x as vulnerable to depression and anxiety compared to men. Men are 5x more vulnerable to to alcoholism and anti-social personality disorder compared to women.

  Haring et al found that gender accounted for less than 1% of peoples global wellbeing in a meta analysis of 146 studies.

  Inglehart found 80% of men and women said that they were at least fairly satisfied with life.
• Happiness and culture 


  Nations differ strikingly in happiness.

  Inglehart found that in Portugal, 10% of people say they are very happy compared to 40% in the Netherlands.

  Japan had a lower SWB than expected for a prosperous country.

  Collectivist cultures reported lower SWB than individualistic cultures.
• Happiness and religion 


  Batson et al found that religious people are much less likely to become delinquent, abuse drugs and alcohol, to divorce, be unhappily married and to commit suicide.

  Religious people tend to be physically healthier and live longer.

  Paloma and Pendleton found that in North America and Europe, religious people report higher levels of happiness and life satisfaction.

  Brown found that religious people are less vulnerable to depression.