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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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Does flexible goal adjustment predict life satisfaction in older adults? A six-year longitudinal study
TL;DR: The findings support the view that the ability to adjust personal goals flexibly is a central resource when unattainable goals are encountered and it contributes to well-being in old age.
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Activity Pattern Profiles: Relationship With Affect, Daily Functioning, Impairment, and Variables Related to Life Goals
Rosa Esteve,Alicia E. López-Martínez,Madelon L. Peters,Elena R. Serrano-Ibáñez,Gema T. Ruiz-Párraga,Henar González-Gómez,Carmen Ramírez-Maestre +6 more
TL;DR: Comparison of the clusters showed that doers had the most adaptive profile, whereas avoiders, followed by extreme cyclers, had unhealthy profiles.
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Adaptive self-regulation, subjective well-being, and physical health: The importance of goal adjustment capacities
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that goals provide structure and meaning to a person's life and that goal attainment contributes to patterns of successful development by facilitating subjective well-being and physical health.
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Identity, intimacy, status and sex dating goals as correlates of goal-consistent behavior and satisfaction in Australian youth.
TL;DR: Goal × Behavior interactions were associated with satisfaction in the domains of intimacy and sex, and identity was the most salient dating goal domain.
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A brief Acceptance and Commitment Therapy intervention for depression: A randomized controlled trial with 3-year follow-up for the intervention group
Heidi Kyllönen,Joona Muotka,Anne Puolakanaho,Piia Astikainen,Katariina Keinonen,Raimo Lappalainen +5 more
TL;DR: A 6-h ACT intervention delivered by novice therapists can lead to improvement in approximately 60–70% of depressed clients.
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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.