“…This gap is surprising because life satisfaction is arguably both a means and an end to individual actions and has been broadly analyzed from economic (Frey and Stutzer, 2002a), psychological and sociological standpoints (Diener and Diener, 2009;Walsh, Boehm, and Lyubomirsky, 2018;Wüst, 2016). Apart from positive correlations with career success (Walsh et al, 2018;Wüst, 2016) and income (Wolbring, Keuschnigg, and Negele, 2011), life satisfaction is also associated with better health (Faragher, Cass, and Cooper, 2005). One can even argue (Frey and Stutzer, 2002b) that life satisfaction is the ultimate goal of all individual actions.…”