captainbeefheart

Servas Waden,

ob das jetzt genau Deine Frage beantwortet weiß ich nicht, ich hab aber mal nachgeschaut, was es dazu gibt: In der Literatur und auch zur Messung kennt man das Konzept des "Subjective Well Being" und das wurde mittlerweile mit vielen Einflussfaktoren korreliert. Wie ich angenommen hatte, sind die Aussagen dazu recht vielschichtig und in Summe nicht eindeutig.

Zu Religion als Einflussfaktor des SWB findet sich z.B.:

"Religion
Again, the evidence here supports the idea that our beliefs affect our SWB, with reli- gious people generally being happier than non-religious people, irrespective of their faith. Taking perhaps the broadest approach, Helliwell (2003, 2006) reviews WVS data and finds that belief in a God is associated higher levels of life satisfaction, However, the effects seem to be stronger in the US than in Europe (Helliwell & Putnam, 2004) and are sometimes not found at all (Smith, 2003).
It seems to make relatively little difference which religion one belongs to (Christian, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.). Reviewing data in the World Database of Happi- ness, Rehdanz and Maddison (2005) found that the average happiness of different coun- tries was not affected by the proportion of the population with different religious beliefs. More specifically, Ferris (2002) found no differences in happiness in the US as a function of whether respondents were Jewish, Catholic or Protestant (see also Cohen, 2002). However, there tend to be wide variances in SWB scores within the same religions suggesting that individual differences are important and it would be unwise to talk simply about all Catholics, all Jews, etc. (Haller & Hadler, 2006). For instance, within religions there are differences in the strength of people’s beliefs, the degree to which they use God to help cope with difficulties and their degree of spirituality, all of which have been found to be associated with different levels of SWB (Cohen, 2002).
Stronger religious beliefs may also ‘‘insure’’ people against a loss of income or employ- ment (UK data, Clark & Lelkes, 2005) since religious people’s well-being (especially Cath- olics) drops as little as half as non-religious people following these negative shocks. Nevertheless, some negative shocks may be hard to deal with in a religious context. For instance, there is evidence that divorced women in the UK gain little in terms of life sat- isfaction from greater religiosity (Clark & Lelkes, 2005)."

Quelle: https://www.iei.liu.se/nek/730g80/ar...hatmakesus.pdf

Ich lass das jetzt einfach mal unkommentiert so stehen, vielleicht hilft es Dir ja weiter.