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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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Low Carbon Readiness Index: a short measure to predict private low carbon behaviour
Léan V. O'Brien,Julia Meis,Rebekah C. Anderson,Stephanie M. Rizio,Michael Ambrose,Gordana Bruce,Christine Critchley,Paul Dudgeon,Peter W. Newton,Garry Robins,Yoshihisa Kashima +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theoretical argument that low carbon strivings (personal goals to reduce carbon footprint in the household) can predict a wide range of diverse behaviours to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Mixed Expectations: Effects of Goal Ambivalence during Pregnancy on Maternal Well‐Being, Stress, and Coping
TL;DR: Ambivalence towards the childbearing goal is a source of significant distress to pregnant women with planned pregnancies and its effects seem to extend into the postpartum period, which may have important clinical implications for maternal and child well-being.
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Relationships among properties of college students’ self-set academic goals and academic achievement
TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship among properties of college students' self-set academic goals and academic achievement, using multiple theoretical perspectives, and found that goal specificity, value, expectation of success and autonomous and controlled motivation were correlated with student's academic achievement.
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Intelligence and Personality in Social Behavior
TL;DR: The overall goal of this chapter is to provide the reader with an integrated conceptual framework for understanding human intelligence and personality as these qualities are reflected in dynamic, complex patterns of social behavior as discussed by the authors.
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Satisfaction of Needs and Determining of Life Goals: A Model of Subjective Well-Being for Adolescents in High School.
TL;DR: In this article, a subjective well-being model for adolescents in high school was developed and tested, and the results of the analysis showed that in the original model, the individual variables and the total effect of variables were directly and indirectly related to subjective well being of adolescents.
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The Satisfaction With Life Scale.
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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.