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Are Latter-day Saints Happier? The Pew Religious Landscape Survey, Relationship with the Church, and Flourishing
Times and Seasons (blog)
Abstract
An independent analysis of the 2025 Pew Religious Landscape Survey examining the relationship between active commitment to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and measures of human flourishing.
Findings for Latter-day Saints
- Active commitment to the LDS Church is associated with higher measures of human flourishing in the Pew 2025 RLS data.
- Effect persists across happiness, meaning, and relationship-quality measures.
- Independent (non-Church) analysis of publicly available Pew data.
Limitations in methodology
Blog analysis rather than peer-reviewed; cross-sectional Pew data cannot establish causation.
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Unknown (2025). Are Latter-day Saints Happier? The Pew Religious Landscape Survey, Relationship with the Church, and Flourishing. Times and Seasons (blog). https://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2025/06/are-latter-day-saints-happier-the-pew-religious-landscape-survey-relationship-with-the-church-and-flourishing/
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Unknown. "Are Latter-day Saints Happier? The Pew Religious Landscape Survey, Relationship with the Church, and Flourishing." Times and Seasons (blog), 2025. https://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2025/06/are-latter-day-saints-happier-the-pew-religious-landscape-survey-relationship-with-the-church-and-flourishing/.
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@article{times_and_seasons_2025_are_lds_happier,
title = {Are Latter-day Saints Happier? The Pew Religious Landscape Survey, Relationship with the Church, and Flourishing},
author = {Unknown},
year = {2025},
journal = {Times and Seasons (blog)},
url = {https://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2025/06/are-latter-day-saints-happier-the-pew-religious-landscape-survey-relationship-with-the-church-and-flourishing/},
}Report an error on this study.