Who could've predicted this?
In the latest edition of "new study confirms what we already knew," a survey from the Institute for Family Studies confirmed that liberal women are sadder and more lonely than conservative women.
From the study:
Specifically, we found that 37% of conservative women reported being 'completely satisfied' with life, whereas only 12% of liberal women did. Young conservative women are three times as likely to report being very satisfied with life compared to young liberal women. Moreover, liberal women are two to three times more likely to report they are 'not satisfied' with their lives, compared to conservative women.
Sociology professor Brian Wilcox interpreted the results this way:
We've seen in the research that conservative women tend to be more likely to embrace a sense of agency and to have the sense that they are not, in any way, the victim of larger structural realities or forces.
They're also less likely to catastrophize about public events and concerns and more likely to think of themselves as captains of their own fate.
The study also found that conservative women are more likely to be married and attend church, and we're pretty sure that has something to do with it too:
Which way, Western woman?
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