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The assessment of subjective well-being (issues raised by the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire)
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In this article, the authors raise conceptual issues related to recent efforts to develop measures of subjective wellbeing (SWB) and raise an appeal for the use of more stringent conceptual and analytic approaches.About:
This article is published in Personality and Individual Differences.The article was published on 2004-04-01. It has received 160 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Subjective well-being & Happiness.read more
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The Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Assessing the Presence of and Search for Meaning in Life
TL;DR: The Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ) as mentioned in this paper is a 10-item measure of the presence of, and the search for, meaning in life, which was developed to measure the emotional well-being of counseling patients.
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Reconsidering happiness: the costs of distinguishing between hedonics and eudaimonia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline the problems and costs of distinguishing between two types of happiness, and provide detailed recommendations for a research program on well-being with greater scientific precision.
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Curiosity and Exploration: Facilitating Positive Subjective Experiences and Personal Growth Opportunities
TL;DR: The potential role of curiosity in advancing understanding of various psychological phenomena is discussed and a theoretical model that informs research on the design of a new measure and the nomological network of curiosity is elaborate.
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Subjective Wellbeing as an Affective-Cognitive Construct
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the affective content of Subjective Wellbeing (SWB) and found that 64% of the variance in SWB was explained by six core affects, indicating that SWB is highly affective construct.
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Gratitude and hedonic and eudaimonic well-being in Vietnam war veterans.
TL;DR: Daily gratitude was uniquely associated with each dimension of daily well-being in both groups and provided support for the further investigation of gratitude in trauma survivors.
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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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Positive psychology: An introduction.
TL;DR: The authors outline a framework for a science of positive psychology, point to gaps in the authors' knowledge, and predict that the next century will see a science and profession that will come to understand and build the factors that allow individuals, communities, and societies to flourish.
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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.