Objective/BackgroundConservative ideology, broadly speaking, has been widely linked to greater happiness and meaning in life. Is that true of all forms of a good life? We examined whether a psychologically rich life is associated with political orientation, system justification, and Protestant work ethic, independent of two other traditional forms of a good life: a happy life and a meaningful life.MethodParticipants completed a questionnaire that assessed conservative worldviews and three aspects of well‐being (N = 583 in Study 1; N = 348 in Study 2; N = 436 in Study 3; N = 1,217 in Study 4; N = 2,176 in Study 5; N = 516 in Study 6).ResultsHappiness was associated with political conservatism and system justification, and meaning in life was associated with Protestant work ethic. In contrast, zero‐order correlations showed that psychological richness was not associated with conservative worldviews. However, when happiness and meaning in life were included in multiple regression models, the nature of the association shifted: Psychological richness was consistently inversely associated with system justification and on average less political conservatism, suggesting that happiness and meaning in life were suppressor variables.ConclusionsThese findings suggest that happiness and meaning in life are associated with conservative ideology, whereas psychological richness is not.

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不同的世界观：幸福、意义和心理丰富性的政治


目标/背景从广义上讲，保守意识形态与更大的幸福和生活的意义有着广泛的联系。所有形式的美好生活都是如此吗？我们研究了心理丰富的生活是否与政治取向、制度正当性和新教职业道德相关，独立于另外两种传统的美好生活形式：幸福的生活和有意义的生活。方法参与者完成了一份评估保守派世界观和三项研究的调查问卷。福祉的各个方面（氮= 研究 1 中的 583；氮= 研究 2 中的 348；氮= 研究 3 中的 436；氮= 研究 4 中的 1,217；氮= 研究 5 中的 2,176；氮= 研究 6) 中的 516。 结果幸福感与政治保守主义和制度合理性相关，生活的意义与新教职业道德相关。相反，零阶相关表明心理丰富度与保守的世界观无关。然而，当幸福感和生活意义被纳入多元回归模型时，这种关联的性质发生了变化：心理丰富度始终与制度合理性成反比，并且平均政治保守主义程度较低，这表明幸福感和生活意义是抑制变量。结论这些研究结果表明，生活中的幸福和意义与保守意识形态有关，而心理丰富则不然。