Subjective Well-Being and Prosociality Around the Globe: Happy People Give More of Their Time and Money to Others

Subjective well-being (SWB) is positively related to prosocial giving and helping others, but so far, research has not explored the association of individual aspects with behavior across world. We used a representative sample from Gallup World Poll 163 countries 2006 2017 explore relationship between each aspect ( N = 1,797,630). found that different SWB are equally associated behavior: While life satisfaction positive affect consistently predicted being more globe, negative did predict or less prosocial. further economic cultural moderators these relationships. Our findings underline importance studying effects components separately, indicating emotions—more than emotions—consistently globe.