The Importance of Freedom in the East and the West Over Time: A Meta-analytic Study of Predictors of Well-Being

Distributional Effects of Freedom and Income on Life Satisfaction: Evidence from East Asian Chinese Societies

“…In the 50th LS percentile, the freedom effect is found to be significant at the 1% level. The finding of the 50th LS percentile (median) is consistent with the previous studies that typically found a positive and significant effect of freedom by mean comparison analysis (see Inglehart & Welzel, 2005; Nakazato et al, 2017). Thus, either Chinese societies or not, at mean or at median, freedom is found to be significantly related to LS.…”

“…This finding is also supported by previous studies using cross‐sectional or panel data. See, for instance, Inglehart et al (2008), Nakazato et al (2017), and Huang et al (2020).…”

“…It has been shown that the strength of the relationship between freedom and LS is stronger in individualistic societies than in collectivistic societies (Minkov et al, 2020; Nakazato et al, 2017). However, it remains unknown whether this relationship varies among different collectivistic societies, such as the East Asian Chinese societies.…”

Curtailment of Civil Liberties and Subjective Life Satisfaction

“…( 2008 ), Gehring ( 2013 ), Graafland and Compen ( 2015 ), Spruk and Kesšeljević ( 2016 ), Jackson ( 2017 ) and Nakazato et al. ( 2017 ).…”

“…See surveys byFrey and Stutzer (2002),Helliwell and Putnam (2004),Clark et al (2008),Diener (2012),Clark (2018), andDiener et al (2018).2 See e.g Inglehart and Klingemann (2000),Veenhoven (2000),Frey and Stutzer (2002),Inglehart et al (2008),Gehring (2013),Graafland and Compen (2015),Spruk and Kesšeljević (2016),Jackson (2017). andNakazato et al (2017).…”