caa a22 4500 467917590 CHVBK 20180406152907.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11205-005-3107-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11205-005-3107-0 Does Wealth Enhance Life Satisfaction for People Who are Materially Deprived? Exploring the Association among the Orang asli of Peninsular Malaysia [Elektronische Daten] [Colleen Howell, Ryan Howell, Kurt Schwabe] Recent studies investigating need theory and the extent to which money can buy happiness have called for more research within culturally homogeneous samples from developing countries to explore this relationship. We examine wealth as a measure of possessions and savings and relate this to subjective well-being (SWB) among poor indigenous farmers in Peninsular Malaysia. With hierarchical multiple regression, we find that the association between wealth and life satisfaction, after controlling for demographic variables, is positive and significant, β = 0.24, p<0.001. This effect is similar to effect sizes reported for other poor samples around the globe and is larger than what has been normally found in Western samples. Our analysis of the Malay translation of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) reveals rather low internal reliability and prompts us to explore the potential wealth-SWB relationship in the absence of measurement error. We find a larger effect size when measurement error is removed, r = 0.43. We discuss the use of latent variable analysis to better interpret wealth-SWB effect sizes and recommend its use for future studies that use SWLS translations. Finally, we find that age, education, family size, and recent illness, while weak zero-order correlates of SWB, become significant predictors of life satisfaction when included with wealth in the multiple regression model. Some explanations and implications of these findings are conjectured. Our study contributes a unique sample to the expanding literature in support of need theory, and may be one of the first to examine the relationship between wealth and life satisfaction among a country's aboriginal people. Springer, 2006 indigenous nationallicence poverty nationallicence satisfaction with life scale nationallicence subjective well-being nationallicence wealth nationallicence Howell Colleen Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, 92521, Riverside, CA, USA aut Howell Ryan Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, 92521, Riverside, CA, USA aut Schwabe Kurt Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, 92521, Riverside, CA, USA aut Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 76/3(2006-05-01), 499-524 0303-8300 76:3<499 2006 76 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-3107-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-3107-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Howell Colleen Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, 92521, Riverside, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Howell Ryan Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, 92521, Riverside, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schwabe Kurt Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, 92521, Riverside, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 76/3(2006-05-01), 499-524 0303-8300 76:3<499 2006 76 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer