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this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2024
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Maybe it's got the effect to externalise any of the sources of whatever is wrong in your life. Fox gives you easy answers for all your problems, and it's always some 'other'. You don't have to change or work on yourself to improve things, you just have to vote for the guys that will deport/jail the ones holding you back.
Id pay special attention to Study 4 which seems to really hit my key points of criticism as a layman. Study 4 controlled for census region but I’d really like to see this controlled for rural vs urban populations at a finer scale. Without that adjustment I question the validity of other studies included.
That said study 4, if I’m reading it right, still found a correlation with happiness in conservatives but that correlation did not survive when religion was accounted for. Which tells you everything you need to know.
The conservatism isn’t the primary ideology, this is just a roundabout way of asking if religious people report being happier and having more meaning and of course they do. The religious aspect almost overrules the political angle entirely.