AUTHOR=Frackowiak Tomasz , Oleszkiewicz Anna , Butovskaya Marina , Groyecka Agata , Karwowski Maciej , Kowal Marta , Sorokowski Piotr TITLE=Subjective Happiness Among Polish and Hadza People JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=11 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01173 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01173 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=

Life satisfaction and happiness were broadly studied in Western populations, whereas evidence from traditional societies remains surprisingly scarce. We collected data on the happiness from 145 Hadza, and compared it with data obtained from 156 Poles, representing Westernized society. Participants were asked to answer four simple questions from Subjective Happiness Scale (Lyubomirsky and Lepper, 1999). Results indicate that Hadza report a higher level of happiness with their lives than do Polish people. Our findings also show that sex was not related to happiness in both populations, while age was a negative predictor of happiness, but only among Poles. Therefore, we hypothesize that positive perception of aging in societies may increase their actual happiness.