caa a22 4500 606151826 CHVBK 20210128100546.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11266-014-9520-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11266-014-9520-8 Happiness Through Participation in Neighborhood Associations in Japan? The Impact of Loneliness and Voluntariness [Elektronische Daten] [Tim Tiefenbach, Phoebe Holdgrün] This article analyzes the relationship between subjective well-being (SWB) and participation in neighborhood associations (NHA) in Japan. While the theoretical and empirical literature suggests a strong positive correlation between participation in NHAs and SWB, recent research on Japan could not validate this result. This study shows how those diverging results can be explained by including two factors in the analysis: the voluntariness of the action as well as loneliness as a mediating variable. Using linear regression models on data from two different studies, we find that—even in the case of Japan—voluntary participation in NHAs is positively associated with SWB in two ways: directly and indirectly mediated by loneliness. This result is robust to differently sampled data and different measures of our key variables. International Society for Third-Sector Research and The Johns Hopkins University, 2014 Neighborhood associations nationallicence Subjective well-being nationallicence Japan nationallicence Civil participation nationallicence Voluntariness nationallicence Loneliness nationallicence Gender nationallicence Tiefenbach Tim German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Jochi Kioizaka Bldg. 2F, 7-1 Kioicho, 102-0094, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan aut Holdgrün Phoebe German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Jochi Kioizaka Bldg. 2F, 7-1 Kioicho, 102-0094, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan aut VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/1(2015-02-01), 69-97 0957-8765 26:1<69 2015 26 11266 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-014-9520-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-014-9520-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tiefenbach Tim German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Jochi Kioizaka Bldg. 2F, 7-1 Kioicho, 102-0094, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Holdgrün Phoebe German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Jochi Kioizaka Bldg. 2F, 7-1 Kioicho, 102-0094, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/1(2015-02-01), 69-97 0957-8765 26:1<69 2015 26 11266