Galbraith E.D.Barrington-Leigh C.Minarro S.Alvarez-Fernandez S.Attoh E.M.N.A.NBenyei P.Calvet-Mir L.Carmona R.Chakauya R.Chen Z.Chengula F.Fernandez-Llamazares A.Garcia-del-Amo D.Glauser M.Huanca T.Izquierdo A.E.Junqueira A.B.Lanker M.Li X.Mariel J.Miara M.D.Porcher V.Porcuna-Ferrer A.Schlingmann A.Seidler R.Shrestha U.B.Singh P.Torrents-Tico M.Ulambayar T.Wu R.Reyes-Garcia V.2024-11-192024-11-192024PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Vol.121(7), 2024, pp. 1-8..https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2311703121https://lowitja.intersearch.com.au/handle/1/625Global polls have shown that people in high-income countries generally report being more satisfied with their lives than people in low-income countries. The persistence of this correlation, and its similarity to correlations between income and life satisfaction within countries, could lead to the impression that high levels of life satisfaction can only be achieved in wealthy societies. However, global polls have typically overlooked small-scale, nonindustrialized societies, which can provide an alternative test of the consistency of this relationship. Here, we present results from a survey of 2,966 members of Indigenous Peoples and local communities among 19 globally distributed sites. We find that high average levels of life satisfaction, comparable to those of wealthy countries, are reported for numerous populations that have very low monetary incomes. Our results are consistent with the notion that human societies can support very satisfying lives for their members without necessarily requiring high degrees of monetary wealth. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)ArticleMental health(Galbraith) Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Barcelona, Spain(Barrington-Leigh) Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy, School of Population and Global Health, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada(Minarro) Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Barcelona, Spain(Alvarez-Fernandez) Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Barcelona, Spain(Attoh) Water Systems and Global Change Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands(Benyei) Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Barcelona, Spain(Calvet-Mir) Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Barcelona, Spain(Carmona) Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile(Chakauya) College of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa(Chen) Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland(Chengula) Institute of Resource Assessment, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania(Fernandez-Llamazares) Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Barcelona, Spain(Garcia-del-Amo) Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Barcelona, Spain(Glauser) Iniciativa Amotocodie, Asuncion, Paraguay(Huanca) Boliviano de Investigacion y de Desarrollo Socio Integral, San Borja, Bolivia(Izquierdo) Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Vegetal, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas-Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina(Junqueira) Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Barcelona, Spain(Lanker) Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, US(Li) Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Barcelona, Spain(Mariel) Centre de cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement (CIRAD), Unite Mixte de Recherche Savoirs-Environnement-Societes (UMR SENS), Montpellier, France(Miara) Department of Nature and Life Sciences, Ibn Khaldoun University, Tiaret, Algeria(Porcher) Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Barcelona, Spain(Porcuna-Ferrer) Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Barcelona, Spain(Schlingmann) Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Barcelona, Spain(Seidler) Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, US(Shrestha) Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, Kathmandu, Nepal(Singh) School of Science and Technology, University of Fiji, Lautoka, Fiji(Torrents-Tico) Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland(Ulambayar) Zoological Society of London, Mongolia Representative Office, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia(Wu) Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Peking University, Beijing, China(Reyes-Garcia) Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Barcelona, Spain