Journal of Happiness Studies

2000 - 2026

Current editor(s): Antonella Delle Fave

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Volume 27, issue 5, 2026

Beyond Income: The Role of Generosity in Happiness Among Urban Malays in Kuala Lumpur pp. 1-31

Nik Ahmad Sufian Burhan, Mohamad Fazli Sabri and Heiner Rindermann

Role of the Residential Environment in Shaping Subjective Well-being pp. 1-25

Shun Kawakubo, Shiro Arata and Tomomitsu Kamata

Is Well-Being a Cause or an Effect? Perceptions of Causality, Effort Allocation, and Overall Well-Being pp. 1-25

Avital Amir, Zeev Shtudiner and Tal Shavit

Nature's Role in Meaning: A Growth-Relief Framework That Connects Nature with Self-Expansion, Existential Anxiety, and Meaning in Life pp. 1-26

Yifan Wang, Yanru Liu, Yajun Zhao, Li Lin, Liyun Hua and Jingguang Li

Happy Parents, Happy Kids? Prospective Relations Between Mothers’ and Fathers’ Happiness, Mindful Parenting, and Children’s Social-Emotional Competence pp. 1-20

Rebecca Y. M. Cheung, Bertha H. C. Kum, Jian-Bin Li and Sum Kwing Cheung

Unveiling the Heterogeneity of Moderate Mental Health Among College Students Through Latent Profile Analysis: Implications for Intervention pp. 1-21

Virginia Pupi, Sonia Mangialavori and Antonella Delle Fave

Positively Negative: Why Negative Affect is Linked to Higher Wellbeing pp. 1-21

Jinrui Liu, Ragnhild Bang Nes, Joar Vittersø, Irene J. E. Teulings and Espen Røysamb

Effects and Mechanisms of Self-compassion on Conspicuous Consumption Orientation: A Randomized Controlled Intervention Study pp. 1-19

Yang Lu, Shuyu Yang and Xianglong Zeng

Volume 27, issue 4, 2026

Does Social Capital Moderate Happiness for Men and Women with Disabilities? pp. 1-22

Tatiana Karabchuk and Osman Antwi-Boateng

Correction: How Does Automation in the Workplace Impact Workers’ Happiness? Disentangling the Competing Mechanisms Through Income Shock and Reduced Working time pp. 1-1

Chao Li, Zhanjun Xing, Xiang Li and Liping Chen

The Bright Eye and the Gleaming Coat? A Stoic Challenge to Haybron on Wellbeing and the Preconditions of Happiness pp. 1-16

Matthew Sharpe

Longitudinal Study on the Relationship Between Leisure Activities and Life Satisfaction Among Korean Youth pp. 1-18

Lingyu Fan and Sun Ah Lim

Effort and Hedonic Capital as Coping Strategies for Well-Being in Wartime pp. 1-18

Eyal Lahav, Arie Sherman and Tal Shavit

Negative Life Events and Subjective Well-Being in Later Life: Longitudinal Evidence from Australia pp. 1-40

Guowei Tian and Vasileios Zikos

Trapped in the Familiar: Longitudinal Influence of Status-Quo Bias on Emotional Well-being during War pp. 1-27

Guy Barokas, Hila Hindy Ling, Arie Sherman and Tal Shavit

Unlocking Action: Meaning in Life Alleviating Exercise Procrastination Through Positive Affect and Outcome Focus pp. 1-19

Yujie Liu, Jie Wen, Rui Cao and Miao Miao

Volume 27, issue 3, 2026

A Longitudinal Examination of Locus-of-Hope, Need Satisfaction and Life Satisfaction Through a Serial Mediation Model pp. 1-14

Ezgi Coban-Tosyali and Özlem Bozo

An Illustration of Semantic Fingerprinting: What’s in a Word (of the Year)? pp. 1-18

Crina Pungulescu

Stressed or Flourishing? Profiles and Transitions of Adolescents’ Digital Experiences and Their Associations with Mental Health pp. 1-21

Xuezhen Wang, Peiyu Zhang and Guoliang Yu

Particularistic but Happy: Familial–Extrafamilial Boundaries and Happiness in China pp. 1-37

Anning Hu and Jiaqing Yu

Does Meeting Expectations of Relative Income Improve Well-Being? pp. 1-24

Jeffrey T. Bookwalter and Douglas R. Dalenberg

The Presence Scale: A Measure of Optimal Conscious Awareness and Being Without Thought pp. 1-24

Peter H. Kahn, Sarena Sabine, Carly E. Gray, Gregory N. Bratman, Carina Croitoru and Katie M. Navidi

Gendered Language and Female Subjective Well-being: An Inquiry into the Socio-psychological Outcomes of Linguistic Structure pp. 1-29

Shi Cheng and Weiguo Zhang

The Impacts of Arts Interventions on Students’ Well-Being Outcomes: A Systematic Review with Pedagogical Outcomes pp. 1-49

Sirui Liu

Understanding the Effect of Adult Children’s Education on Older Parents’ Subjective Well-being: Evidence from China pp. 1-31

Yuanyuan Ma, Shoukang Dong, Tim Liao and Yi Zhang

Volume 27, issue 2, 2026

Correction to: Optimizing the Measurement of Life Satisfaction Beyond the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) Via the Development and Validation of the Satisfaction and Quality of Life Scale (SQLS) pp. 1-1

Benjamin D. Rasmussen and Ronald D. Rogge

The Structure of Emerging Adults’ Well-being: A Psychological Network Approach of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Dimensions pp. 1-21

Daniel Hernández-Torrano and Xeniya Tursunbayeva

Exploring the Determinants of Subjective Well-Being in Older Adults: A Cross-National Analysis of Social, Political, Economic, and Demographic Factors pp. 1-35

Hoolda Kim and Baeyong Lee

Development and Validation of the Growth Mindset Scale in the Older Adult Population pp. 1-23

Xiaohua Xiao, Ruotong Zhang, Xin Zhang, Dongdong Jiang, Yunying Zhu, Hanzhen Ruan, Jin Zhang, Wenxiao Chen, Wei Sang, Weina Xu and Qian Yang

Social Support and Meaning in Life: A Meta-Analysis pp. 1-23

Jia-Yi Cai, Xin-qiang Wang, Tao Zhang and Shu-Ya Pan

Online Interactive Meditation Training Enhances Subjective Well-being in Older Adults pp. 1-23

Xiaomin Chang, Xianmin Gong, Xinge Xu and Xianglong Zeng

The Overlooked Self-Transcendent Nature of Meaning in Life: Having a Positive Impact on Others pp. 1-30

Joffrey Fuhrer and Florian Cova

National Estimates of Subjective Wellbeing in the UK Using the Personal Wellbeing Index pp. 1-30

Matthew Bond, Dan Frings, Anna Stenning and Julien Morton

Publisher Correction: Happiness and Life Satisfaction: Understanding the Effects of Question Order on Subjective Wellbeing Measures in India pp. 1-2

Giulia Greco, Camilla Fabbri, Varun Dutt and Timothy Powell-Jackson

Who Manages Better? Gendered Perspectives on Food Security and Subjective Wellbeing in Ghana pp. 1-34

Stephen Prah, Bright Owusu Asante and John N. Ng’ombe

How Does Automation in the Workplace Impact Workers’ Happiness? Disentangling the Competing Mechanisms Through Income Shock and Reduced Working Time pp. 1-41

Chao Li, Zhanjun Xing, Xiang Li and Liping Chen

Signature Strengths Use is More Strongly Associated with Well-being in Individualistic than in Collectivist Societies: Multilevel Evidence pp. 1-20

Wang Zheng, Piotr Bialowolski, Ryan M. Niemiec and Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska

Pursuing Pleasure or Meaning: A Weekly Diary Study of Happiness Motives and Prosocial Behavior in Young Adults pp. 1-20

Shu Wang, Qian Liu, Tiantian Guo, Xuanqi Chen, Qingsong Tan, Zhen Zhen and Feng Kong

Developing and Evaluating the Comprehensive Hierarchical Eustress Review (CHER) pp. 1-28

Juliane Kloidt and Lawrence W. Barsalou

Which Life Makes You Happy? The Satisfaction Dividend of the Prosperous, the Exciting, the Cozy, and the Sustainable Life pp. 1-28

Jan Delhey, Stephanie Hess and Christian Schneickert

The Complex Relationship between Inner and Outer Peace: New Global Insights from the Gallup World Poll pp. 1-25

Tim Lomas, Ryan Niemiec, Pablo Diego-Rosell, Alden Yuanhong Lai, Matthew T. Lee and Tyler J. VanderWeele

Reciprocal Relationships Between Daily Emotion Regulation Strategies and Basic Need Satisfaction and Frustration: A Dynamic SEM Approach pp. 1-25

Yael Zaidman and Moti Benita

A Network Analysis of Social and Leisure Activities, Resilience, and Mental Health: Differences by Adverse Childhood Experiences pp. 1-26

Marija Janković, Jelle Sijtsema and Stefan Bogaerts

Blessing or Curse? The Welfare Consequences of Cash Gift Expenditure for the Poor pp. 1-26

Hanjie Wang, Xiaolong Tian and Jiali Han

Assessing Measurement Invariance of Subjective Well-Being Across European Countries pp. 1-31

Simon Röck, Lukas Kleinheinz and Janette Walde

Volume 27, issue 1, 2026

Disparities in Psychological Wellbeing by Sexual Orientation: Results from the 2022 National College Health Assessment pp. 1-20

Andrew R. Chang, Jamie Baik, Justin A. Chen, Courtney Stevens, Sari L. Reisner and Cindy H. Liu

Happiness and life satisfaction: understanding the effects of question order on subjective wellbeing measures in India pp. 1-16

Giulia Greco, Camilla Fabbri, Varun Dutt and Timothy Powell-Jackson

Living Well or Spending More? A 25-Year Review of Income, Consumption, and Life Satisfaction pp. 1-33

Alessandro Bortolotti, Claudio Di Berardino and Riccardo Palumbo

Optimizing the Measurement of Life Satisfaction Beyond the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) Via the Development and Validation of the Satisfaction and Quality of Life Scale (SQLS) pp. 1-34

Benjamin D. Rasmussen and Ronald D. Rogge

Does Digital Infrastructure Make Rural Residents Happier? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in China pp. 1-34

Shile Fang, Xinjie Shi, Xinnan Xu and Zhijian Zhang

Do Adolescents Disengaged from Morality Feel Happy? A Cross-Lagged Effect and its Longitudinal Network Analysis pp. 1-18

Xue Song, Tong Zhao, Ningning Feng, Yu Xiong, Junxiong Jiang, Lijuan Cui and Ling Gao

Effects of Past, Present, and Future-Oriented Communication Savoring on State Optimism and State Affect pp. 1-25

Alima Akter Methila, Sumiya Pervin and Akib Ul Huque

Coping Strategies as a Predictors of Flow State Dimensions – Network Analysis Perspective pp. 1-25

Marcin Wojtasiński, Silvia Leoni, Przemysław Tużnik and Kamila Tomaka

How Self-Compassion Promotes Authentic Self-Expression: The Role of Self-Concept Clarity pp. 1-22

Yuki Miyagawa

Interventions Based On Positive Psychology for Suicide Prevention: A Systematic Review pp. 1-22

Pablo Pons, Adriana Mira, Amanda Díaz-García, Azucena García-Palacios and Rosa María Baños

The Affective Well-Being of Ukrainian Refugees in Germany: Evidence from Five Waves of Representative Panel Data pp. 1-21

Lisa Kriechel, Nadja Milewski and Martin Bujard

Effect of a Universal Mindfulness Program on Well-Being in Adolescents: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial pp. 1-21

Jemina Qvick, Mirka Hintsanen, Tero Vahlberg and Salla-Maarit Volanen

Identifying Key Predictors of Subjective Well-Being across 92 Countries: A Machine Learning Approach pp. 1-38

Rui Li and Yueqin Hu

Social Capital in a Meritocracy: Understanding Class Inequalities in Young Adults’ Life Satisfaction pp. 1-27

Nathan Widjaja and Shannon Ang

Where Hope Thrives: Demographic Variation in Hope across 22 Countries pp. 1-30

Victor Counted, Katelyn N. G. Long, Richard G. Cowden, Charlotte V. O. Witvliet, Cristina Gibson, Alicia Cortright, Emily Purcell, James Walsh, William Hathaway, Fernando Garzon, Byron R. Johnson and Tyler J. VanderWeele

Correction to: Developmental Patterns of Positive Affect Among Preadolescents in Primary School: A Two-Year Latent Growth Analysis of Peer, Teacher, and Family Influences pp. 1-2

Martina E. Mölsä, Patrik Söderberg and Anna K. Forsman

Me, You, or Us? Dyadic Associations between Marital and Life Satisfaction pp. 1-24

Jeong Eun Cheon, Haeyoung Gideon Park, Misoh Lee and Young-Hoon Kim

Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Regulation of Positive Affect: The Moderating Effects of Stressor Intensity and Perceived Controllability pp. 1-24

Tracy K. Wong and Kedi Zhao

Looking Beyond Stigma and Depression: an Examination of Psychological Wellbeing in Young Mothers pp. 1-23

Kate E. Mulgrew, Angela Hinz, Breanna Solomon, Melissa Redsell and Lynette O’Connor