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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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Satisfação com a vida e satisfação diádica: correlações entre construtos de bem-estar
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between life satisfaction and dyadic satisfaction among married people and concluded that people who are generally satisfied with life are also satisfied in the conjugal relationship.
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The bittersweet taste of sacrifice: Consequences for ambivalence and mixed reactions.
Francesca Righetti,Iris K. Schneider,Deanna Ferrier,Teodora Spiridonova,Ruiyang Xiang,Emily A. Impett +5 more
TL;DR: This work provides the first comprehensive study of the emotional reactions that are triggered by sacrifice and shows that sacrifice is a double-edged sword with both positive and negative consequences.
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The Relationship of Spiritual Well-Being to Qualityof Life in Adults with Intellectual andDevelopmental Disabilities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored and described how adults who experience intellectual and developmental disabilities perceive the significance of their spiritual well-being in relation to their quality of life and the difference gender and living situations.
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The Motivational Structure Questionnaire, Personal Concerns Inventory, and their Variants: Psychometric Properties
W.M. Cox,E. Klinger +1 more
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Cultural Construal of Wellbeing – Theories and Empirical Evidence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the characteristics of the collectively shared concept of wellbeing among cultures, namely, the cultural construal of wellbeing, and they discuss how sustainable societies can be created in a global context in the future.
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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.