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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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A study of the importance and impact of autonomy on the motivation and subjective well being of British and Ecuadorian university students
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a mixed-method study with Ecuadorian and British university students and found that self-generated or individual autonomy correlated positively with subjective well-being in both cultures.
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Una investigación sobre la escala de satisfacción marital
TL;DR: The Spanish version of the Marital SatiSfaction Scak (Roach, Browden and Frazier, 1981) was administrated to a sample of executive's wives in Mexieo as mentioned in this paper.
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The relationship between implicit and explicit motives, goal pursuit, and autobiographical memory content during a diary study.
TL;DR: Interactions between motives and goal pursuit on autobiographical memory suggests a trade-off: Favorable goal pursuit conditions may prompt people not motivated for achievement to shift their focus from agentic to communal themes, while individuals motivated for Achievement maintain their priorities.
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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.