Networks of supportive and helpful others thus tend to promote levels
of life satisfaction and emotional health (House, Umberson & Landis,
1988). However, the differential contribution of different kinds of
relationships to happiness remains unclear. The differential weights
averaging models that were found for sub domains of the Intimacy life
domain among other life domains (Theuns et al., 2007), suggest that
satisfaction in one life domain can (partly) compensate for a lack of satisfaction in some other. The current study investigates if –as for main life
domains- differential weights averaging applies to the integration of sub
domains of social relations to produce overall happiness.