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Subjective measures of well-being.
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This article is published in American Psychologist.The article was published on 1976-02-01. It has received 883 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social change & Happiness.read more
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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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Comparison of two modes of stress measurement: Daily hassles and uplifts versus major life events
TL;DR: It was found that the Hassles Scale was a better predictor of concurrent and subsequent psychological symptoms than were the life events scores, and that the scale shared most of the variance in symptoms accounted for by life events.
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Social validity: the case for subjective measurement or how applied behavior analysis is finding its heart.
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Influence of extraversion and neuroticism on subjective well-being: happy and unhappy people.
Paul T. Costa,Robert R. McCrae +1 more
TL;DR: A model of individual differences in happiness is presented, and the separate and complementary roles of trait and adaptation-level theories in explaining happiness are discussed.
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The structure of psychological well-being
TL;DR: In the field of mental health, the split between hedgehogs and foxes roughly parallels that between theorists and empiricists as discussed by the authors, and the hedgehog's attempt to bridge that gap and pursue systematic data collection within the framework of a single unifying concept.
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The pattern of human concerns
TL;DR: The Pattern of human concerns as discussed by the authors, the pattern of human concern, is a pattern for human concerns and human concerns are related to the patterns of human interest in the world, e.g.
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Americans View Their Mental Health
TL;DR: Gurin, Veroff, and Feld as mentioned in this paper conducted a survey with nearly twenty-five hundred individuals to assess the nation's mental health resources and needs from a variety of perspectives, focusing on the subjective dimension of mental health.