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Subjective Well-being
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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.Abstract:
The literature on subjective well-being (SWB), including happiness, life satisfaction, and positive affect, is reviewed in three areas: measurement, causal factors, and theory. Psychometric data on single-item and multi-item subjective well-being scales are presented, and the measures are compared. Measuring various components of subjective well-being is discussed. In terms of causal influences, research findings on the demographic correlates of SWB are evaluated, as well as the findings on other influences such as health, social contact, activity, and personality. A number of theoretical approaches to happiness are presented and discussed: telic theories, associationistic models, activity theories, judgment approaches, and top-down versus bottom-up conceptions.read more
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Happiness is the frequency, not the intensity, of positive versus negative affect.
TL;DR: This paper found that subjective well-being is more strongly associated with the amount of time people feel positive versus negative feelings rather than with the intensity of their positive feelings, and they also found that positive feelings often have costs, including a tendency to more intense negative feelings in negative situations.
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The Role of Subjective Well-Being in Positive Youth Development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed that high life satisfaction is related to good adaptation and optimal mental health among youth and that positive affect mitigate the negative effects of stressful life events and work against the development of psychological and behavioral problems among youth.
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Health-related quality of life of overweight and obese children.
TL;DR: The effects of child overweight and obesity on health-related QOL in this community-based sample were significant but smaller than in a clinical sample using the same measure.
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Conflict among personal strivings: immediate and long-term implications for psychological and physical well-being.
Robert A. Emmons,Laura A. King +1 more
TL;DR: It was demonstrated that conflict and ambivalence ratings were stable and that these ratings predicted psychosomatic complaints over time, and that subjects were less likely to act on conflictful and ambivalent strivings but to spend more time thinking about these Strivings.
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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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Mood and memory
TL;DR: Experiments in which happy or sad moods were induced in subjects by hyp- notic suggestion to investigate the influence of emo- tions on memory and thinking found that subjects exhibited mood-state-dependent memory in recall of word lists, personal experiences recorded in a daily diary, and childhood experiences.
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Mood, misattribution, and judgments of well-being: Informative and directive functions of affective states.
Norbert Schwarz,Gerald L. Clore +1 more
TL;DR: Les auteurs cherchent a savoir si l'humeur dans lequel le sujet se trouve au moment ou on lui demande d'evaluer sa satisfaction existentielle, influence precisement ces evaluations.