Abstract Research interest in topics such as happiness, the quality of life, and the experience of well-being has dramatically increased in the past four decades. Global measures of Subjective Well-Being (SWB) have long held a prominent position in this burgeoning body of research (Diener, 1984; Pavot, 2008). Despite their widespread acceptance and use, the validity and utility of global measures of SWB have been challenged at several levels of analysis. These critiques have ranged from the conceptual basis of SWB (e.g. Ryan & Deci 2001; Ryff, 1989; Ryff & Singer, 2008) to very specifi c concerns about the context of the assessment situation and the cognitive processes involved in formulating a response to

Subjective well-being theories of goal approach and value-as-a-moderator were applied to examine the role of importance of social connectedness on the relationship between social connectedness and subjective well-being in a community sample of 204 Korean immigrants. It was hypothesized that social connectedness in ethnic and mainstream society is a stronger predictor of well-being to immigrants who highly value/desire it than to those who do not. The results from hierarchical multiple regression analyses provided partial support for the hypotheses. For immigrants who highly valued con-nectedness in the ethnic community, positive affect increased with greater connected-ness in the ethnic community, whereas, for immigrants who did not value it, connect-edness in the ethnic community was not associated with positive affect. Implications for theory, research, and practice were discussed.

Abstract To study the usefulness of subjective well-being measures as a proxy for utility, Here respondents almost always choose what makes them feel happy. In addition, they perceive little con ‡ict between own happiness and other relevant determinants of choice such as sense of purpose and family happiness. We thank Dan Benjamin, Costas Meghir (the editor) and an anonymous referee for useful comments and suggestions.

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Social Indicators Research, in press. Running Head: Life Satisfaction Scales Send reprint requests to: Ed Diener

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Abstract I argue that distinct conditions of justice lead to diverse wellness outcomes through a series of psychosocial processes. Optimal conditions of justice, suboptimal con-ditions of justice, vulnerable conditions of injustice, and persisting conditions of injustice lead to thriving, coping, confronting, and suffering, respectively. The processes that mediate between optimal conditions of justice and thriving include the promotion of responsive conditions, the pre-vention of threats, individual pursuit, and avoidance of comparisons. The mechanisms that mediate between sub-optimal conditions of justice and coping include resilience, adaptation, compensation, and downward comparisons. Critical experiences, critical consciousness, critical action, and righteous comparisons mediate between vulnerable conditions of injustice and confrontation with the system. Oppression, internalization, helplessness, and upward comparisons mediate between persisting conditions of injustice and suffering. These psychosocial processes operate within and across personal, interpersonal, organi-zational and community contexts. Different types of justice are hypothesized to influence well-being within each con-text. Intrapersonal injustice operates at the personal level, whereas distributive, procedural, relational, and develop-mental justice impact interpersonal well-being. At the organizational level, distributive, procedural, relational and informational justice influence well-being. Finally, at the community level, distributive, procedural, retributive, and cultural justice support community wellness. Data from a variety of sources support the suggested connections between justice and well-being.