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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.read more
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Let it go: Depression facilitates disengagement from unattainable goals.
Katharina Koppe,Klaus Rothermund +1 more
TL;DR: Evidence is provided for the view that clinical depression, although pathological, might also serve an adaptive function and facilitate disengagement from unattainable goals.
Marginality and coping: A communal contextual narrative approach to pastoral care with Korean American Christians
TL;DR: This paper examined the social reality of marginality in Korean American experiences of racism, sexism, and intergenerational conflicts related to the acculturation process and constructed a communal contextual narrative approach to pastoral care.
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Shifting priorities: Effects of partners’ goal conflict on goal adjustment processes and relationship quality in developing romantic relationships
Judith Gere,Emily A. Impett +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigated whether partners in newly developing romantic relationships adjust their goals when they experience conflict with the goals of their partner, and the consequences of goal conflict a.k.a. goal conflict.
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How is street life? An examination of the subjective wellbeing of street children in China
Fucai Cheng,Debbie O. B. Lam +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show the significance of providing life necessities and psychological counseling to the street children and show that the level of self-esteem played a moderating role in their life satisfaction and positive affect.
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The Satisfaction with Life Scale
TL;DR: The Satisfaction With Life Scale is narrowly focused to assess global life satisfaction and does not tap related constructs such as positive affect or loneliness, but is shown to have favorable psychometric properties, including high internal consistency and high temporal reliability.
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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.