Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

The multidimensional structure of wellbeing: genetic evidence from a multivariate twin study including the Mental Health Continuum

This study uses multivariate twin analysis to show that wellbeing has distinct genetic components across its subscales and moderate to high genetic overlap with other wellbeing measures, but no single common genetic factor.

Causal Evidence for the Neural Underpinnings of Subjective Happiness

The paper investigates the causal relationship between brain damage and subjective happiness by analyzing SHS scores in veterans with traumatic brain injury and healthy controls, identifying specific brain regions linked to happiness.

Neighborhood Deprivation, Genetic Predisposition, and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from the German Twin Family Panel

The paper examines how neighborhood deprivation moderates the effect of genetic predisposition on life satisfaction using twin data.