@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {12771},
      author = {Oishi, Shigehiro and Choi, Hyewon and Cha, Youngjae and  Heintzelman, Samantha and Buttrick, Nicholas R. and  Westgate, Erin C.},
      title = {Differing worldviews: The politics of happiness, meaning,  and psychological richness},
      journal = {Journal of Personality},
      address = {2024-07-05},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {&lt;p&gt;Objective/Background: Conservative ideology, broadly  speaking, has been widely linked to greater happiness and  meaning in life. Is that true of all forms of a good life?  We examined whether a psychologically rich life is  associated with political orientation, system  justification, and Protestant work ethic, independent of  two other traditional forms of a good life: a happy life  and a meaningful life.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Method: Participants  completed a questionnaire that assessed conservative  worldviews and three aspects of well-being (N = 583 in  Study 1; N = 348 in Study 2; N = 436 in Study 3; N = 1,217  in Study 4; N = 2,176 in Study 5; N = 516 in Study 6).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Results: Happiness was associated with political  conservatism and system justification, and meaning in life  was associated with Protestant work ethic. In contrast,  zero-order correlations showed that psychological richness  was not associated with conservative worldviews. However,  when happiness and meaning in life were included in  multiple regression models, the nature of the association  shifted: Psychological richness was consistently inversely  associated with system justification and on average less  political conservatism, suggesting that happiness and  meaning in life were suppressor variables.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Conclusions: These findings suggest that happiness and  meaning in life are associated with conservative ideology,  whereas psychological richness is not.&lt;/p&gt;},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12771},
}