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The present meta-analysis sought to achieve two goals: First, to provide an estimate of the overall effects yielded by both objective and social class indices, thereby testing the relativity hypothesis that predicts that subjective social class relates to SWB more strongly than objective social class. Second, to elucidate the relevance and utility of each index in influencing SWB by examining moderators that would influence how strongly the objective and subjective social class index relates to SWB. The current meta-analysis included 334 independent samples, with the inclusion of more recent samples compared to earlier meta-analyses. The results revealed that the subjective social class-SWB association (r = .21) was about twice as large as the objective social class-SWB association (r = .11), supporting the relativity hypothesis. Furthermore, the subjective social class-SWB association was relatively stable across moderators compared to the objective social class-SWB association. 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