Objective and Subjective Indicators of Happiness in Brazil: The Mediating Role of Social Class

摘要

The authors tested the proposition that monetary household income affectssubjective well-being (E. Deiner, E. M. Suh, R. E. Lucas, & H. L. Smith, 1999) through themediating mechanisms of objective and subjective social classes. The present authors drewa representative sample in a door-to-door survey format from a Brazilian urban center.Using a back-translated version of E. Diener, R. A. Emmons, R. J. Larson, and S. Griffin's(1985) Satisfaction With Life Scale, the present authors demonstrated a significant relationwith income. However, this effect was mediated by objectively and subjectively measuredsocial classes. These effects reinforce, extend, and internationally generalize the Person xSituation perspective elaborated by E. Diener et al. (1999).