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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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Levels and Domains In Personality: An Introduction
TL;DR: This special issue aims to communicate recent developments and organizational frameworks for understanding the person at multiple levels and in varied domains, and articulate and elaborate units of analysis that yield a psychology of personality that is commensurate with the complexity of individual functioning and that offers greater potential for the attainment of the original goals of the discipline.
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The psychological trade-offs of goal investment.
TL;DR: Self-report methods were used in a concurrent study with college students and a longitudinal study with elementary school children to provide support for the hypothesis that high goal investment has psychological trade-offs.
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Ambivalence over emotional expression and well-being: Nomothetic and idiographic tests of the stress-buffering hypothesis.
Ilana M. Katz,Jennifer Campbell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between ambivalence over emotional expression (AEQ) and well-being in a 4-month study with an interim 2-week diary component.
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The Concept of Situations
TL;DR: The concept of situations has a long history, but the conceptualization of situations only has a short history as mentioned in this paper, and the essence of a situation is its affordance of human goals, and situations are largely characterized by two specific principles of goal processes (what happened, is happening, or might happen to people's goals) and goal contents (the specific goals afforded in the situation).
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Pleasures and subjective well-being
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the moderating role of sensation seeking in the patterns of relations between physical pleasure and life satisfaction and found that physical pleasure is associated with daily satisfaction to the degree that one seeks for such an experience.
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The Satisfaction with Life Scale
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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.