title: Happiness of Asian Americans.
abstract: Past surveys found a positive relation between job satisfaction and socioeconomic status, with Asian Americans scoring low and African Americans and Euro-Americans scoring higher. As job satisfaction is a component of happiness, the question arises whether this relationship holds for happiness in general. Responses of a sample of 499 Asian Americans, 24,432 Euro-Americans, and 2,828 African Americans were analyzed. For both sexes, Asian Americans rated happiness significantly higher than African Americans. The rated happiness of Asian American and Euro-American men was not significantly different, but Asian-American women rated happiness significantly lower than Euro-American women. Mean differences were less than one point.
authors.affiliation: Department of Finance and Quantitative Management, School of Business and Administration, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX 78228-8607, USA.
authors.forename: Charles N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Weaver
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001213:Asian / Q000523:psychology*; D044383:Black People / Q000523:psychology; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006240:Happiness; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology; D001741:Black or African American