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dc.contributor.authorHeadey, Bruceen
dc.contributor.authorSchupp, Jürgenen
dc.contributor.authorTucci, Ingriden
dc.contributor.authorWagner, Gert G.en
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-21-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:51:44Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:51:44Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-20090119113en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/35427-
dc.description.abstractUsing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), this paper assesses the relationship between life satisfaction and religious practice. The main new result here is longitudinal. It is shown that individuals who become more religious over time record long term gains in life satisfaction, while those who become less religious record long term losses. This result holds net of the effects of personality traits, and also in fixed effects panel models. The paper has significant implications for the dominant, paradigm theory in SWB research, namely set-point theory. This theory holds that the long term SWB of adult individuals is stable, because SWB depends on personality traits and other stable genetic factors. It is already clear from the German panel data that about 20% of the population have recorded large long term changes in SWB. New evidence in this paper and elsewhere about the effects of consciously chosen life goals, including religious ones, on SWB is hard to reconcile with set-point theory. It is more in line with authentic happiness theory.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x3915en
dc.subject.jelA12en
dc.subject.jelA13en
dc.subject.jelY80en
dc.subject.jelZ12en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordSWBen
dc.subject.keywordlife satisfactionen
dc.subject.keywordset-point theoryen
dc.subject.keywordauthentic happiness theoryen
dc.subject.keywordlongitudinal analysisen
dc.subject.keywordSOEPen
dc.subject.stwLebenszufriedenheiten
dc.subject.stwReligionen
dc.subject.stwDeutschlanden
dc.titleAuthentic happiness theory supported by impact of religion on life satisfaction: a longitudinal analysis with data for Germany-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn589772716en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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