World Happiness Report 2023 108 Figure 4.1: Relationship Between Life Satisfaction and Altruism Around the World 1 Altruism (Composite) Life Satisfaction Life Satisfaction Life Satisfaction Life Satisfaction Life Satisfaction Life Satisfaction Life Satisfaction Charitable Donation Volunteering Helping Strangers Blood Donation Kidney Donation Marrow Registry Animal Welfare Note: Relationships between subjective well-being (mean-centered) and seven altruism variables (including the total for all altruism variables; z-scored)18, excluding countries without both altruism and well-being data. Each dot represents a country, lines indicate the best-fitting regression model, and ribbons represent 95% confidence intervals. Annotations report Spearman , Pearson’s r, and number of included countries (n). Asterisks indicate significant correlations (*p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001). Results indicate that around the world increased life satisfaction (subjective well-being) reliably relates to a greater frequency of seven different types of prosocial behavior. Life Satisfaction
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