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Beyond the hedonic treadmill: revising the adaptation theory of well-beingEd Diener
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 61820, USA
Am Psychol 61:305-14. 2006..These revisions offer hope for psychologists and policy-makers who aim to decrease human misery and increase happiness...
Wealth and happiness across the world: material prosperity predicts life evaluation, whereas psychosocial prosperity predicts positive feelingEd Diener
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 99:52-61. 2010..Thus, two separate types of prosperity-economic and social psychological-best predict different types of well-being...- The value-congruence model of memory for emotional experiences: an explanation for cultural differences in emotional self-reportsShigehiro Oishi
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4400, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 93:897-905. 2007..In sum, emotional events congruent with personal values remain in memory longer and influence retrospective frequency judgments of emotion more than do incongruent events... 
What constitutes a good life? Cultural differences in the role of positive and negative affect in subjective well-beingDerrick Wirtz
Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858 4353, USA
J Pers 77:1167-96. 2009..the self). Positive affect appears particularly meaningful for European Americans and negative affect for Asian Americans and Japanese when judging a satisfying vacation, friendship, or life...- The dynamics of daily events and well-being across cultures: when less is moreShigehiro Oishi
Department of Psychology, Univesity of Virginia, VA 22904 4400, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 93:685-98. 2007..The findings demonstrate a weaker effect of positive events on daily well-being among individuals and cultures high in global well-being... - The religion paradox: if religion makes people happy, why are so many dropping out?Ed Diener
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 101:1278-90. 2011..Thus, it appears that the benefits of religion for social relationships and SWB depend on the characteristics of the society... - Culture and well-being: the cycle of action, evaluation, and decisionShigehiro Oishi
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 29:939-49. 2003..In contrast, there was no change in actual enjoyment of the task at Time 2 among Asians because their choice was not based on their performance at Time 1... - The benefits of frequent positive affect: does happiness lead to success?Sonja Lyubomirsky
Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Psychol Bull 131:803-55. 2005..Limitations, empirical issues, and important future research questions are discussed... - Subjective well-being and national satisfaction: findings from a worldwide surveyMike Morrison
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Psychol Sci 22:166-71. 2011..Our findings invite new research directions and can inform quality-of-life therapies... - Reexamining adaptation and the set point model of happiness: reactions to changes in marital statusRichard E Lucas
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 84:527-39. 2003..Thus, marital transitions can be associated with long-lasting changes in satisfaction, but these changes can be overlooked when only average trends are examined... - Progressive taxation and the subjective well-being of nationsShigehiro Oishi
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, P O Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4400, USA
Psychol Sci 23:86-92. 2012..Finally, we found that the association between more-progressive taxation and higher levels of subjective well-being was mediated by citizens' satisfaction with public goods, such as education and public transportation... - Income inequality and happinessShigehiro Oishi
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, P O Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4400, USA
Psychol Sci 22:1095-100. 2011..Most important, we found that the negative link between income inequality and the happiness of lower-income respondents was explained not by lower household income, but by perceived unfairness and lack of trust... - Love, work, and changes in extraversion and neuroticism over timeChristie Napa Scollon
Department of Psychology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 76129 8920, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 91:1152-65. 2006..40. (d) Cross-lagged models indicated traits had a greater influence on role satisfaction; however, marginal support emerged for work satisfaction leading to increased extraversion. Implications of correlated change are discussed... - Life satisfaction set point: stability and changeFrank Fujita
Department of Psychology, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, IN, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 88:158-64. 2005..Almost 9% of the sample changed an average of 3 or more points on a 10-point scale from the first 5 to last 5 years of the study... - Personality, culture, and subjective well-being: emotional and cognitive evaluations of lifeEd Diener
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois 61820, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 54:403-25. 2003..Although it is challenging to assess SWB across societies, the measures have some degree of cross-cultural validity. Although nations can be evaluated by their levels of SWB, there are still many open questions in this area... - Needs and subjective well-being around the worldLouis Tay
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL, 61820, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 101:354-65. 2011..The emergent ordering of need fulfillment for psychosocial needs were fairly consistent across country conditions, but the fulfillment of basic and safety needs were contingent on country membership... - On "feeling right" in cultural contexts: how person-culture match affects self-esteem and subjective well-beingC Ashley Fulmer
University of Maryland, Department of Psychology, 1147 Biology Psychology Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Psychol Sci 21:1563-9. 2010..Results were replicated across extraversion, promotion focus, and locomotive regulatory mode. Our research has practical implications for the well-being of both cultural natives and migrants... - Wanting, having, and satisfaction: examining the role of desire discrepancies in satisfaction with incomeEmily Crawford Solberg
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 61820, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 83:725-34. 2002..Thus, desires play a pivotal role in determining people's satisfaction with income... - Rising income and the subjective well-being of nationsEd Diener
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, 603 East Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61821, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 104:267-76. 2013..Analyses of income relative to people in one's nation and between-nation slopes together suggest that income standards are now largely global, with little effect of national social comparison... - What to do on spring break? The role of predicted, on-line, and remembered experience in future choiceDerrick Wirtz
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Psychol Sci 14:520-4. 2003..These results suggest that although on-line measures may be superior to retrospective measures for approximating objective experience, retrospective measures may be superior for predicting choice... - Very happy peopleEd Diener
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign 61820, USA
Psychol Sci 13:81-4. 2002..This suggests that very happy people do have a functioning emotion system that can react appropriately to life events... - Life-satisfaction is a momentary judgment and a stable personality characteristic: the use of chronically accessible and stable sourcesUlrich Schimmack
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Erindale College, Ontario, Canada
J Pers 70:345-84. 2002..In sum, the results are consistent with our theory that life-satisfaction judgments are based on chronically accessible sources... - Unemployment alters the set point for life satisfactionRichard E Lucas
Michigan State University, USA
Psychol Sci 15:8-13. 2004..These results suggest that although life satisfaction is moderately stable over time, life events can have a strong influence on long-term levels of subjective well-being... - Individualism: a valid and important dimension of cultural differences between nationsUlrich Schimmack
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Canada
Pers Soc Psychol Rev 9:17-31. 2005..This pattern of results suggests that individualism is a valid construct for cross-cultural comparisons, but that the measurement of this construct needs improvement... - The role of positive and negative emotions in life satisfaction judgment across nationsPeter Kuppens
Department of Psychology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
J Pers Soc Psychol 95:66-75. 2008.... - Cross-situational consistency of affective experiences across culturesShigehiro Oishi
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, MN, US
J Pers Soc Psychol 86:460-72. 2004..Thus, global affective traits exist among non-Western samples, but the degree to which situations exert an influence on the absolute level of affective experience varies across cultures... - Zeroing in on the dark side of the American Dream: a closer look at the negative consequences of the goal for financial successCarol Nickerson
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Psychol Sci 14:531-6. 2003..The negative consequences were particularly severe for the domain of family life; the stronger the goal for financial success, the lower the satisfaction with family life, regardless of household income... - Physical activity enhances long-term quality of life in older adults: efficacy, esteem, and affective influencesSteriani Elavsky
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Ann Behav Med 30:138-45. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: The findings lend support to the position that physical activity effects on QOL are in part mediated by intermediate psychological outcomes and that physical activity can have long-term effects on well-being...