Normative Life Satisfaction: Measurement Issues and a Homeostatic Model

By Robert Cummins. 2003

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Decision Sciences, Social Psychology

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Is the Study of Happiness a Worthy Scientific Pursuit? (2008, background): “This process of adaptation is commonly referred to as the hedonic treadmill (Brickman and Campbell 1971) or ‘‘homeostatic control’’ ( Cummins 2003 ).”
‘Subjective resilience’: using perceptions to quantify household resilience to climate extremes and disasters (2016, background): “Yet, this will reduce the level of detail that can be extracted from the answers (particularly in the case of binary answers) (Cummins 2003).”
Well-being, Happiness and Why Relationships Matter: Evidence from Bangladesh (2009, background): “data offers insights into what resources Bangladeshis can draw upon in the face of imminent ‘‘homeostatic defeat’’ ( Cummins 2002; Camfield and McGregor 2005).”
A Multivariate Analysis of the Self-Determination of Adolescents (2011, background): “2006; Schalock 2004), as well as personality and cognitive factors that contribute to perceived or experienced satisfaction (Cummins 2003).”
Subjective Wellbeing, Homeostatically Protected Mood and Depression: A Synthesis (2010, methodology): “In a previous report using population sample mean scores from 19 different countries as data, the overall mean was found to be 74.4 and the standard deviation 5.1 points ( Cummins 2003 ).”
Developing a National Index of Subjective Wellbeing: The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index (2003, background): “This result has been replicated on several occasions (Cummins, 1998, 2002) and appears to be reliable.”
Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries? (2011, background): “Some psychologists draw a parallel between the homeostasis that leads us to hold body temperature steady and homeostasis in subjective wellbeing (Cummins, 2003), which latter is argued to hold well-being at some constant individual-specific set-point (argued to be between 60 and 80 on a standardised”
Happiness and Subjective Wellbeing in Mainland China (2008, neutral): “The use of student samples as a surrogate adult sample has been criticized widely, as they are not representative of the adult population nor their own age-group (Wintre et al. 2001; Cummins 2003 ).”
Inequality Of Happiness in Nations (2005, background): “The subject of inequality of happiness has been addressed by Chin-Hon-Foei (1989), Veenhoven (1990, 1995, 2000, 2002) and recently by Cummins (2003) and by Fahey & Smith (2003).”
Maintaining Life Satisfaction: The Role of Positive Cognitive Bias (2002, methodology): “However, this paradigm is fatally flawed since proxy responses in relation to subjective states are highly unreliable (see Cummins, 2002c, for a review).”
Variety is the spice of happiness: The hedonic adaptation prevention model. (2013, background): “In other words, SWB may be the result of a homeostatic process that resists deviations away from a preprogrammed baseline (Cummins, 2003).”
How to Grow up Happy: An Exploratory Study on the Meaning of Happiness from Children’s Voices (2011, background): “This internal dynamism inherent to the psychological construct of subjective well-being has been extensively explained by Cummins (2003, 2010) .”