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Inequality and social rank: income increases buy more life satisfaction in more equal countries
- Abstract:
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How do income and income inequality combine to influence subjective well-being? We examined the relation between income and life satisfaction in different societies, and found large effects of income inequality within a society on the relationship between individuals’ incomes and their life satisfaction. The income–satisfaction gradient is steeper in countries with more equal income distributions, such that the positive effect of a 10% increase in income on life satisfaction is more than twic...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Journal website
- Volume:
- 47
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 519-539
- Publication date:
- 2020-05-29
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-04-14
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1552-7433
- ISSN:
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0146-1672
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1100246
- Local pid:
- pubs:1100246
- Deposit date:
- 2020-04-15
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- Copyright holder:
- Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © 2020 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from SAGE Publications at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220923853
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