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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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Compared to men, women view professional advancement as equally attainable, but less desirable
TL;DR: The findings reveal that men and women have different perceptions of what the experience of holding a high-level position will be like, with meaningful implications for the perpetuation of the gender disparity that exists at the top of organizational hierarchies.
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Discrepancy in Illness-related Goals and Quality of Life in Chronically Ill Patients: The Role of Self-efficacy
TL;DR: It was found that more discrepancy in goal importance and attainability was generally associated with lower levels of quality of life and psychological well-being and self-efficacy in achieving desired health outcomes was found to mediate this relationship.
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The Joint Effects of Target and Purpose Goals on Intrinsic Motivation: A Mediational Analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test Harackiewicz and Sansone's prediction that task-specific target goals would enhance intrinsic motivation when they were congruent with higher-order purpose goals, and they varied performance and mastery-oriented target goals in neutral and performance-oriented purpose goal contexts.
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Generativity and Social Involvement among African Americans and White Adults
TL;DR: The authors examined the relation between generativity and social involvement in a sample of 253 community adults, approximately half African American and half White, between the ages of 34 and 65 years, and found that African American adults scored significantly higher than Whites on measures of generative concern and generative acts as well as on indices of social support, religious participation, and parenting as a role model and source of wisdom.
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Congruence Between Social Values and Implicit Motives: Effects on Life Satisfaction Across Three Cultures
TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between implicit motives for intimacy-affiliation and power, explicit value orientations, and life satisfaction and found that an alignment of implicit motives and self-attributed values is associated with an enhanced life satisfaction across cultures.
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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.