A Triangulated and Exploratory Study of the Relationships Between Secularization, Religiosity, and Social Wellbeing Chong Ho Yu 1 • Danielle Reimer 1 • Anna Lee 1 • Jean-Paul Snijder 2 • Hyun Seo Lee 1 Accepted: 26 February 2016 / Published online: 16 April 2016 Ó Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016 Abstract By comparing mainly religious America and secular Europe, several scholars (e.g. Harris, Paul, and Zuckerman) suggested a strong correlation between secularization (non-religiosity) and social well-being. The authors of this paper argue that the preceding thesis may be too simplistic and Western-centric. Without attempting to affirm any specific hypothesis, these authors employed exploratory data analysis and data visualization to unveil patterns found in worldwide data, including the 2013 United Nations Human Development Report, the 2014 Gallup’s Global Wellbeing Index, and the 2013 World Values Survey. It was found that the relationship between secularization and social well- being is not straightforward or clear-cut. In some cases, secularization or lack of religiosity is seemingly linked to better quality of life (e.g. disbelief and inequality-adjusted human development index), while in other cases, the relationship is reversed (e.g. skepticism and adolescent birth rate). In most situations there is no association at all. Keywords Wellbeing Á Secularization Á Religiosity Á Human development index Á Gallup Global Wellbeing Á World Value Survey Á Thriving Á Exploratory data analysis Á Data visualization & Chong Ho Yu chonghoyu@gmail.com Danielle Reimer dreimer12@apu.edu Anna Lee annamarieyu1@gmail.com Jean-Paul Snijder jean-paul.snijder@cgu.edu Hyun Seo Lee hyunseolee12@apu.edu 1 Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA, USA 2 Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA 123 Soc Indic Res (2017) 131:1103–1119 DOI 10.1007/s11205-016-1290-9