Does Wealth Enhance Life Satisfaction for People Who are Materially Deprived? Exploring the Association among the Orang asli of Peninsular Malaysia

Colleen J. Howell (), Ryan T. Howell and Kurt A. Schwabe
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Colleen J. Howell: University of California, Riverside
Ryan T. Howell: University of California, Riverside
Kurt A. Schwabe: University of California, Riverside

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2006, vol. 76, issue 3, No 3, 499-524

Abstract: Abstract Recent studies investigating need theory and the extent to which money can buy happiness have called for more research within culturally homogeneous samples from developing countries to explore this relationship. We examine wealth as a measure of possessions and savings and relate this to subjective well-being (SWB) among poor indigenous farmers in Peninsular Malaysia. With hierarchical multiple regression, we find that the association between wealth and life satisfaction, after controlling for demographic variables, is positive and significant, β = 0.24, p

Keywords: indigenous; poverty; satisfaction with life scale; subjective well-being; wealth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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