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Personal strivings: An approach to personality and subjective well-being.

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This article is published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.The article was published on 1986-11-01. It has received 1600 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Subjective well-being & Personality.

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Motivated Emotion Regulation: Principles, Lessons, and Implications of a Motivational Analysis of Emotion Regulation

TL;DR: In this paper, a motivational analysis of emotion regulation focuses on understanding what motivates people to regulate emotions, and how such motivating factors operate and shape the process and outcomes of emotional regulation.
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Action crises and goal disengagement: Longitudinal evidence on the predictive validity of a motivational phase in goal striving

TL;DR: In this article, a longitudinal study with n = 207 freshman students over one and a half years, an action crisis, with respect to one's studies as well as 2 non-academic personal goals, had a predictive effect on goal disengagement and, for the academic goal, progress.
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Goal conflict, distress, and pain in women with fibromyalgia: A daily diary study

TL;DR: Understanding the dynamic relationship between goal conflict and fibromyalgia symptoms may lead to more effective management of limited resources and pursuit of daily goals with fibromyalgism, resulting in higher pain.
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Effects of Achievement Goal Striving on Well-Being: The Moderating Role of the Explicit Achievement Motive

TL;DR: Longitudinal Study 4 showed that the interaction between the explicit achievement motive and achievement goal commitment predicts changes in subjective well-being and health measured over a 3-month period.
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The Satisfaction with Life Scale

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The Satisfaction With Life Scale.

TL;DR: The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) as mentioned in this paper is a scale to measure global life satisfaction, which does not tap related constructs such as positive affect or loneliness, and has favorable psychometric properties, including high internal consistency and high temporal reliability.
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Subjective Well-Being

TL;DR: The literature on subjective well-being (SWB), including happiness, life satisfaction, and positive affect, is reviewed in three areas: measurement, causal factors, and theory.
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Subjective Well-being

TL;DR: The literature on subjective well-being (SWB), including happiness, life satisfaction, and positive affect, is reviewed in this article in three areas: measurement, causal factors, and theory.
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Optimism, coping, and health: Assessment and implications of generalized outcome expectancies.

TL;DR: A scale measuring dispositional optimism, defined in terms of generalized outcome expectancies, was used in a longitudinal study of symptom reporting among a group of undergraduates and predicted that subjects who initially reported being highly optimistic were subsequently less likely to report being bothered by symptoms.
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