To this point in our analysis, everything said about the predictors of
well-being were almost obvious and compatible with the findings of many
other studies in the literature. But surprisingly, as this SEM analysis
reveals, being less ‘sensitive toward social injustices’ and
less ‘sympathetic with social democratic values’ , holding
politically ‘conservative views’ and stronger
‘nationalistic sentiments’ (having more confidence in
right-wing parties, corporations, and armed forces and being less caring
about the climate change) all positively contribute to SW! Interestingly
all these factors are associated with lower levels of
‘education’ indicating that more education is more harmful to
our SW by making us more sensitive to the socio-ecological injustices of
the world we all belong to.