According to the gender life satisfaction/depression paradox women are significantly more likely to report higher levels of life satisfaction than men after controlling for all relevant socio-demographic factors, but also significantly more likely to declare they are depressed. We find that the paradox holds in the cross-country sample of the European Social Survey and is stable across age, education, self-assessed health, macroregion and survey round splits. We find support for the affect intensity rationale showing that women are relatively more affected in their satisfaction about life by the good or bad events or achievements occurring during their existence and less resilient (less likely to revert to their standard levels of happiness after a shock). We as well discuss biological, genetic, cultural, personality rationales advocated in the literature that can explain our findings.

根据性别生活满意度/抑郁悖论，在控制所有相关的社会人口因素后，女性比男性更有可能报告更高水平的生活满意度，但也更有可能宣称自己患有抑郁症。我们发现，这一悖论在欧洲社会调查的跨国样本中成立，并且在年龄、教育程度、自我评估健康状况、宏观区域和调查轮次划分方面保持稳定。我们发现支持情感强度基本原理的证据表明，女性对生活的满意度相对而言更容易受到她们存在期间发生的好或坏事件或成就的影响，并且复原力较差（在震惊后恢复到标准幸福水平的可能性较小） 。我们还讨论了文献中提倡的可以解释我们的发现的生物学、遗传、文化、人格原理。