Fig 1.
National average GDP per capita (ppp, USD) vs. life evaluations for 2018.
Darker dots show mean national responses to the Cantril ladder question [19] against their country’s GDP [20]. In light blue are the mean Satisfaction with Life (SWL) responses from our study sites, represented against their mean local income ± SD (see Methods). The orange line was fit to the Cantril ladder data using a linear regression model and the log of GDP per capita.
Fig 2.
Subjective well-being and index of monetization at the study sites.
Satisfaction with life (A) is measured on a 0 to 10 scale. Affect balance (B) is given on a scale from -1 (participants only reported negative emotions) to 1 (participants only reported positive emotions), with vertical lines representing the standard deviation. Momentary affect (C) shows the proportions of positive and negative affect as bars above and below zero, respectively. The index of monetization at each site (D) was calculated from the reported percentages of purchased food and fishing catch sold outside the community. Asterisks indicate significant differences between the sites (S1 and S6 Tables) and the sample size for each metric and site is shown in each panel.
Fig 3.
Reported drivers of SWB at the study sites.
The distribution of all answers is shown for each site, as classified among inductive categories determined by peer coding.
Fig 4.
Cluster analysis from perceived SWB drivers.
The radar plot (A) displays the three clusters based on the grouping of the responses shown in Fig 3. (B) shows the cluster distribution by site as the percentage of respondents that fall within each cluster.