People or places? Perceived left-behindness and subjective well-being in Italy

Boredom and psychological well-being among the self-employed

Individuals not only seek a happy and meaningful life, but an interesting rather than a boring one. In this paper, we analyze data from 19,000 individuals across 25 European countries to demonstrate that self-employment is associated with modestly lower boredom on average—a relationship that is not captured by tradit...

: Perceptions and Evidence

Informal Caregiving and Subjective Well-Being: Empirical Evidence from Colombia (2018–2024)

Dyadic discrimination and mental well-being among older Americans

There is a thorough literature on the mental health consequences of discrimination exposure in adulthood, yet little work to date has situated such experiences within a relational, dyadic context. The present brief report analyzes two-wave longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS; 2018-2022) to...

Subjective Well-being in Spain’s Decline

Subjective Feeling of Happiness and Social Determinants of Quality of Life

The aim of the study was to develop an integrated conceptual synthesis of the relationships between individual experiences of well-being, assessments of living conditions, and social-environmental factors, while distinguishing their direct, mediated, and context-dependent associations. The study was conducted in Septem...