... shifted more recently to investigations of what it means to be well, since more individuals are well than ill (Diener et al., 1999). Initially, such studies concentrated on demographic features such as age, gender, marriage education etc, however these variables were shown to have minimal associations with well-being (Campbell, Converse and Rogers, 1976, cf. Diener, et al., 1999). Thus, more external predictors of well-being, such as socio-economics and culture have been examined using the tradition of Subjective Well Being (SWB). SWB employs self-reports to measure an individual's subjective response to how good their life is in terms of [overall] life satisfaction (Campbell et al, 1976, cf. Keyes, Ryff and Shmotkin, 2002), domain specific satisfaction, such as work, income, social relationships etc (Andrews, 1991; Diener, 1984, cf. Ryff and Keyes, 1995), and happiness (the balance between positive and negative affect, Bradburn, 1969, cf. Keyes et al., 2002). Life satisfaction responses ...

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