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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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The justice motive in adolescence and young adulthood : origins and consequences
Claudia Dalbert,Hedvig Sallay +1 more
TL;DR: Sallay and Dalbert as mentioned in this paper discussed the impact of being raised in a one-parent or an intact family on the development of the belief in a just world in adolescents.
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Motivational structure: Relationships with substance use and processes of change
W. Miles Cox,Eric Klinger +1 more
TL;DR: A technique for assessing motivational structure is presented, through which people's motivation to use substances can better be understood, and results of studies using the assessment suggest that the motivational model is supported.
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Environmentalist identity and environmental striving
TL;DR: This paper found that environmentalist identity is a motivator of multiple domains of environmental behaviours and embedded in people's worldviews about the natural and social worlds; however, environmental striving is an additional motivation of potentially more costly environmental behaviours, and even more intricately embedded in the views about the environment and social world.
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Counseling Psychology and Optimal Human Functioning
TL;DR: In this article, Walsh et al. present a taxonomy of human strengths, including interests, self-efficacy, and self-interest, and individuality and optimal human function.
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Social anxiety and social constraint: When making friends is hard.
TL;DR: Etude longitudinale du contenu, des determinants et des consequences de l'anxiete sociale chez des etudiants en voie de passer du lycee a l'universite as discussed by the authors.
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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.