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Satisfaction with travel and subjective well-being: Development and test of a measurement tool
Dick Ettema,Tommy Gärling,Tommy Gärling,Lars Eriksson,Margareta Friman,Lars E. Olsson,Satoshi Fujii +6 more
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In this article, the authors developed and tested a measure of travel-related subjective well-being, the nine item self-report satisfaction with travel scale (STS), which measures the benefits individuals derive from travel improvements.Abstract:
Subjective well-being (SWB) that includes individuals' cognitive and affective evaluations of life in general is proposed to be a more appropriate measure capturing the benefits individuals derive from travel improvements. We develop and test a measure of travel-related SWB, the nine item self-report satisfaction with travel scale (STS). In a survey of 155 undergraduates, STS, mood ratings, and ratings of SWB were collected for three hypothetical weekdays differing in travel mode, travel time, access to bus stops, and daily activity agenda. The results showed that STS is reliable and differentiates between changes in travel conditions. STS, mood, and to some extent SWB were shown to be affected by travel mode (bus vs. car), travel time, access to bus stops, and the number of activities in the daily agenda.read more
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New insights in travel satisfaction research
Runing Ye,Jonas De Vos,Liang Ma +2 more
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Prevalence of alternative processing rules in the formation of daily travel satisfaction in the context multi-trip, multi-stage, multi-attribute travel experiences
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the performance of different processing rules using data on satisfaction with public transport trips from Xi'an, China, and find that the peak-end rule consistently had the lowest explained variance, also after controlling for socio-demographics, mood and personality traits.
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The commuters’ burden: The relationship between commuting and wellbeing in Europe
Toon Zijlstra,Ann Verhetsel +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a multilevel multiple linear regression model was developed with control variables for factors with a known influence on wellbeing, random intercepts per country, and random slopes for the estimated weekly commuting hours (WCH) effect per country.
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‘On a road to nowhere….’ analyzing motivations for undirected travel
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors empirically analyze motivations for taking undirected travel (UT) trips, or travel without a destination (as opposed to derived trips) undertaken for the purpose of the trip itself, as the determinants and characteristics are largely unknown.
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Dynamic Modeling of Activity Happiness: An Investigation of the Intra-activity Hedonic Treadmill
Isabel Viegas de Lima,Maya Abou-Zeid,Ronny Kutadinata,Zahra Navidi,Stephan Winter,Fang Zhao,Moshe Ben-Akiva +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a dynamic Ordinal logit model based on the collected data and discussed the estimation results in the context of Hedonic Theory, which was used to test for the presence of an intra-activity Hedonic Treadmill Effect.
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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: Three Decades of Progress
TL;DR: Wilson's (1967) review of the area of subjective well-being (SWB) advanced several conclusions regarding those who report high levels of "happiness". A number of his conclusions have been overturned: youth and modest aspirations no longer are seen as prerequisites of SWB.